Yearly average from monthly data

Hello,

It has been a while since I have made any new loops that I have not copied from old scripts, so I am a little out of practice. This question should be fairly easy for most to answer.

I have a data set with monthly data:

Size(A)=192,144,120

I would like to put this into ten, yearly averages:

Size(B)=192,144,10

I have just done it the long way around-

B(:,:,1)=mean(A(:,:,1:12),3);
B(:,:,2)=mean(A(:,:,13:24),3);
B(:,:,3)=mean(A(:,:,25:36),3);
B(:,:,4)=mean(A(:,:,37:48),3);
B(:,:,5)=mean(A(:,:,49:60),3);
B(:,:,6)=mean(A(:,:,61:72),3);
B(:,:,7)=mean(A(:,:,73:84),3);
B(:,:,8)=mean(A(:,:,85:96),3);
B(:,:,9)=mean(A(:,:,97:108),3);
B(:,:,10)=mean(A(:,:,109:120),3);

This works fine, but is a little tedious and I will be wanting to do this with much larger data sets in the coming months.

What is the best way to do this in a for loop?

Thank you!

[Dennis]

Is there a specific reason for a loop? I think reshape should work aswell:

B=mean(reshape(A,192,144,12,[]),4);

[HA]

This does not quite give me what I want.

Answer 1

[Andrei Bobrov]

s = size(A);
B = squeeze(mean(reshape(A,[s(1:2),12,s(3)/12]),3));

[HA]

This Works well, thank you!

[Marek Harenda]

Hello sir, can you help me with changing this code into calulation of the monthly avarage by which i mean calculating January, February, etc. mean from the whole dataset? I am asking you, because your code for annual mean is working with my data so I hope that I only need to do some little change to achieve my goal. I know that there are topics more related to my problem, but the proposals for solving it turned out not to be satisfactory for me. I see that in this case we need only to extract 12 consecutive months for each year, but in my case I probably need to extract every 12 month with 1 month shift so it is a bit more complicated for me.