^{Originally posted by tomvothecoder January 29, 2024}

Is your feature request related to a problem?

I'm running into a case where I need to average over the Z axis. The CDAT code being used is cdutil.averager(tvar, axis="z"), which I need to replace.

xCDAT's spatial averager, which is based on cdutil.averager(), only supports rectilinear grids ("X" and "Y"). However, we do mention that the get_weights() method can be extended to support other axes:

Are there are any possible answers you came across?

No response

Describe alternatives you've considered

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Additional context

For the short-term, I might be able to use xarray.DataArray.weighted directly. However, I still need to generate the weights xr.DataArray beforehand.

datarray.weighted(weights).mean("height")