polygon area avg?

[Robert Hart]

Greg,

How about masking out the area outside the polygon, and then taking the
aave() of the entire domain?

I believe aave would ignore undefined gridpoints.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: Greg West <greg.west at UTAH.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:22 pm
Subject: polygon area avg?
To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT

> Grads users,
>
> Has anyone come up with a way to take an area avg of the area
> within a
> non-rectangle shape? The shape I'm looking for in this case resembles
> the shape of Nevada. If not I can probably approximate the shape by
> averaging a bunch of smaller rectangles.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Greg
>
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