calculate average precipitation of a month given data of all months in matlab

To calculate the average precipitation of a specific month in MATLAB, you can follow these steps:

  1. Create a matrix or a table that contains the data of all months. The matrix or table should have the month column and the precipitation column.
  2. Use the find function to select the rows that belong to the month that you want to calculate the average precipitation for.
  3. Use the mean function to calculate the average precipitation of the selected rows.

Here is an example code to calculate the average precipitation of September:

main.m
% Create a sample monthly precipitation data
monthly_precipitation = [
    1  20.5;
    2  15.8;
    3  8.2;
    4  3.7;
    5  1.2;
    6  0.9;
    7  1.2;
    8  2.5;
    9  5.9;
    10 10.8;
    11 15.2;
    12 18.9
];

% Select the rows that have the month of September
september_data = monthly_precipitation(find(monthly_precipitation(:,1) == 9), :);

% Calculate the average precipitation of September
september_avg_precipitation = mean(september_data(:,2));
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In this example, the monthly_precipitation matrix contains the data of all months. The first column is the month number, and the second column is the precipitation. The find function selects the rows that have the month number of 9 (which is September). The mean function calculates the average precipitation of these rows, which is stored in the september_avg_precipitation variable.

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