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• • R is the radius of the Earth
  • φ_i is the latitude of the i-th grid cell
  • Δφi is the size of the grid cells in latitude (constant)
  • Δλ_i is the size of the i-th grid cell in longitude.

Using this and supposing that Δφi is constant the average of field f over an area can be written as:

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