JuliaClimate/ClimateBase.jl

Create en ensemble type

Balinus opened this issue · 3 comments

Balinus commented

Formalizing an ensemble type will be useful to standardize the methods based on ensemble: ensemble mean, variance, plots, regridding on a common grid.

struct ensemble
   Ensemble::Array{ClimGrid}
   Name::String
   Map # map definition (regridding might be part of the constructor? which means that the mapping definition would be contained into each ClimGrid and will be similar)
end

Thoughts?

Datseris commented

No reason to exist, it can be represented as a Vector{ClimArray}. Standard Julia syntax can be used for "ensemble mean/variance". E.g. ensemble global mean would be

E = [ClimArray("ensemble_$i.nc") for i in 1:10]
global_mean = mean(spacemean(X) for X in E)

The more standard Julia syntax can be used, the less developer work we have to do, and the less a user has to learn, making everything more extendable, better tested, and simpler to learn.

  • 👍1
Balinus commented

I'd suggest adding the code snippets into the documentation under a "Ensemble statistics". What do you think?

Datseris commented

Sure, I'm reopening as documentation issue

  • 👍1