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Examine the supplied GRIB file era_t2m_jan_2014.grib. It contains low-resolution temperature fields (4x4 degree) from the ERA Interim data set for each day in January 2014 at time steps 00:00 and 12:00. Try the following in a new macro:

  1. compute the mean temperature field for the whole month
  2. separate the data into the two different time steps and compute the mean field for each. The end result should be two fields - one is the mean of all the 00:00 fields and the other is the mean of all the 12:00 fields.
  3. for each time step, compute the difference between the 2014 mean and the climatological mean computed earlier (you may wish to combine both macros into a single macro at this point)
    1. note that the two data sets are on different grids - you will need to change one of them to the other's grid
  4. plot the result (it should be two fields) with Contouring icons appropriate for showing temperature anomalies.

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