a sum of the many 3d arrays (just third dimension, and first and second stay steady)

Hey all

I have a 408 3d single arrays. Each one is (720*360*12).

I want to write a code to sum the third dimension of all, without any change in the first and second ones.

So, in the end, I would like to have: 720*360*408 3d array.

As I am new to this topic, I would be appreciated if you could help me.

[Daniel M]

First you need to concatenate all your matrices into a big 4D one, and sum them over the third dimension. If you are reading them in from files, this should be very simple to do with a loop and there are many tutorials on this. If you have created 408 individual matrices, well... this is precisely why it is not recommended to name your variables dynamically. And you should continue to read this page more closely.

<https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/304528-tutorial-why-variables-should-not-be-named-dynamically-eval>

[BN]

Like this example:

A=(720*360*12)

B=(720*360*12)

C=(720*360*12)

So:

SUM=(720*360*(12+12+12))

here is for 3 years, and I want it for 34 years.

Sitll I need to produce 4D matrix?

Thank You

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

No, you do not need to build a 4D array.

projectdir = 'NameOfDirectory';
dinfo = dir(fullfile(projectdir, '*.mat'));
filenames = fullfile(projectdir, {dinfo.name});
numfiles = length(filenames);

total_values = [];

for K = 1 : numfiles
    thisfile = filenames{K};
    filedata_struct = load(thisfile);
    fn = fieldnames(filedata_struct);
    first_field = fn{1};
    this_data = filedata_struct.(first_field);
    if K == 1
        total_values = this_data;
    else
        total_values = total_values + this_data;
    end
end

The above code would have to be altered to suit the way that data is stored in your files.