On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Jim Biard <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a variable that contains a time average of gridded temperature
> measurements.  The grid is produced by a fit of irregularly-spaced point
> data (weather stations), and any given cell might not contain an actual
> measurement point.  I understand that I should have a cell_method of “time:
> mean” for the time axis, but what should I do for the lat/lon dimensions?
>

Maybe I misunderstand your data, but I think that for this purpose, the
"cell" is only in the time dimension -- it is still point data in the
lat/lon dimensions. So each value of a given variable is still associated
with a single lat and long. So you do the same thing as usual for that.

HTH,
  -Chris









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