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-These files are a use case to show how to compute meridial and zonal means
-
-You need METcalcpy and METdatadb in your python path or your conda environment
-i.e.
-export PYTHONPATH=<path>/METdatadb:<path>/METcalcpy
-
-The file SSWC_v1.0_varFull_ERAi_d20130106_s20121107_e20130307_c20160701.nc needs to be
-on disk somewhere on your computer and referenced correctly in the file
-meridial_mean.yaml