nctoolkit.DataSet.cell_area

DataSet.cell_area(self, join=True)

Calculate the area of grid cells. Area of grid cells is given in square meters.

Parameters

join (boolean) – Set to False if you only want the cell areas to be in the output. join=True adds the areas as a variable to the dataset. Defaults to True.

Examples

If you wanted to add the cell_areas as a new variable in a dataset, you would do the following:

>>> ds.cell_area()

If you wanted to replace a dataset with the cell areas of that dataset, you would do the following:

>>> ds.cell_area(join = False)