Re: average over a state

That's good news. Previously, I used a simple software online called
shape2text
to convert shapefiles to a format that NCL can read. It should be
nice to have a
built-in function to work with them.

Mike

On Apr 8, 2009, at 12:25 PM, David Brown wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> FYI, we are putting the finishing touches on new code that will
> allow shapefiles to become a supported
> format. This should be available for interested people to test in a
> month or so.
> -dave
>
> On Apr 8, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Michael Notaro wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your email, Mary.
>> I ended up manually making a mask, but that took about 45 minutes.
>> Probably there's some way to do this using a shapefile of the polygon
>> border of a state.
>> Mike
>>
>> On Apr 8, 2009, at 10:49 AM, Mary Haley wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> There's no trick that I know of, unless you have some kind
>>> of masking information to indicate what part of your
>>> data is over a specific US state.
>>>
>>> We've had this kind of request before, and it's been on our list
>>> to look into.
>>>
>>> --Mary
>>>
>>> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Michael Notaro wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know a trick to average a variable over a specific US
>>>> state?
>>>> For example, I have a 0.1 degree dataset of Midwest temperatures
>>>> and
>>>> want to compute the average temperature over Wisconsin only
>>>> (carefully
>>>> within its state boundaries).
>>>>
>>>> Probably there's no good way but I might as well ask.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Mike
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