[ferret_users] calculating the area of each cell.

[Mark.Collier@xxxxxxxx]

Hi,

I’m wanting to compute the area of each individual cell on a 2d grid (the whole earth in my case) and are struggling to find a simple answer.

 

use levitus_climatology

let >

 

shade ones !this will give a land/ocean mask

 

!how do I get an area of each grid for the ones 2d grid? ie. 360x180 points adding up to ones[x=@din,y=@din] m^2?

 

In my case I am using a dataset where the longitude and latitude grid bounds are exactly defined, with complete global coverage.

Regards,

Mark.