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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I have a hypothetical question...</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">If you were to blend multiple data sets together <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">with
varying temporal resolutions,</span> (and after lterp'ing them all to the same grid) what would happen with one of the data sets if it's data time ran out before the others did?</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Ex.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">ND = No Data</p>
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<td height="20" class="xl65" width="52" style="height:15.0pt;width:39pt">TAU</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">0</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">6</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">12</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">18</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">24</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">30</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">36</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">42</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">48</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">54</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">60</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">66</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">72</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">78</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">84</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">90</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">96</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">102</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">108</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">114</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">120</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">126</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">132</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">138</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">144</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">150</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">156</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">162</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">168</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">174</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">180</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">186</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">192</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">198</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">204</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">210</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">216</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">222</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">228</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">234</td>
<td class="xl66" width="26" style="border-left:none;width:20pt">240</td>
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<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height:15.0pt;border-top:none">GFS</td>
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<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height:15.0pt;border-top:none">ECM</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
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<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height:15.0pt;border-top:none">NAM3</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
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<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height:15.0pt;border-top:none">NAM12</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">-</td>
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<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-top:none;border-left:none">ND</td>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">'define blend = (GFS+CMC+ECM+NAM3+NAM12)/5.0'</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">Would the sudden data drop-out
in the average result in 0s being introduced into the average? </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 12pt;">How
would you keep the data (last valid timestep) that runs out included in the overall average?</span><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Cheers,</p>
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