what's the best method to compute weight value for arbitrary data format?

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• Subject: what's the best method to compute weight value for arbitrary data format?
• From: Fei Liu <Fei.Liu@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:24:10 -0500 (EST)

Hi group, sometimes there is a need to compute a weight array when 
averaging netCDF result. For example, for data(z,y,x)

weight(i,j,k) = wx(i)*wy(j)*wz(k)

but for data(z,x), it's
weight(i,k) = wx(i)*wz(k)

This variable weight has to be constructed during run time without any 
assumption of the underlying data organization (data(t,x), data(t,z) 
etc.). I have an algorithm to compute this variable dynamicsally but it's 
not very efficient. What suggestions do you have?

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