Regional mean weighting

[znicholls]

Hi there,

Thanks for all your efforts with the ATLAS. I have what I hope is a quick question: after you've interpolated the files onto a common grid, are your regional-means weighted by cell area, or are they simply a mean over all the cells (giving each cell equal weight)? This would be great to know for some analysis I'm doing.

Thanks!

[znicholls]

I did some more thinking and I don't think my original question is that helpful so will close this and open a new issue.

[miturbide]

Hi znicholls , thanks for your question.
Regional averages are weighted by the cosine of the latitude. We have included this information in the README:
https://github.com/SantanderMetGroup/ATLAS/tree/master/aggregated-datasets