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Per dtcenter/METplus#2643 discussion, add more detail about the budge…
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JohnHalleyGotway committed Jul 23, 2024
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* NEAREST for the nearest grid point (width = 1)

* BUDGET for the mass-conserving budget interpolation


* The budget interpolation method is often used for precipitation
in order to roughly conserve global averages. However it is
computationally intensive and relatively slow. To compute the
interpolated value for each point of the target grid, a higher
resolution 5x5 mesh with 0.2 grid box spacing is centered on
the point and bilinear interpolation is performed for each
of those 25 lat/lon locations. The budget interpolation value
is computed as the average of those 25 bilinear interpolation
values, assuming enough valid data is present to meet the
"vld_thresh" threshold.

* FORCE to compare gridded data directly with no interpolation
as long as the grid x and y dimensions match.

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