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Calculating Temporal Averages with GeoCAT-comp vs Xarray

With temporally large datasets, computing seasonal and annual averages are a great ways to summarize the data and make it easier to manage and understand. You may want to take hourly, daily, or monthly data and compute seasonal or annual averages.

When using data that has a daily or finer resolution (e.g. hourly), calculating an annual average is simple. Every day and hour has the same length, so an unweighted average will work.

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