How can I use the inpolygon function for 3 dimensions?

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I have plotted the chlorophyll monthly climatology of a specific region of a world map. I want to place a polygon on a specific region and plot time series for just that region. The chlorophyll data is in 3 dimensions of longitude, latitude, and dates (109x97x280). I'm confused on how to use the inpolygon function for 3 dimensions. I want to be able to make the polygon, determine which points are within that polygon, then average those points for each date to ultimately plot a time series. Any suggestions are helpful, thank you!
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DGM
DGM on 28 Jun 2021
Edited: DGM on 28 Jun 2021
It sounds to me like your constraint region isn't a polygon, but a polygonal prism. To clarify, what is the time range? Is it a single specific time? Is it a range of times? Is it all time? It sounds like it's one of the latter two.
Candice Cooper
Candice Cooper on 28 Jun 2021
Yes, that's correct I believe. It's a range of times (spanning 23 years).

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KSSV
KSSV on 28 Jun 2021
You need not to use a 3D inpolygon. You are supposed to use inpolygon only once. Get your closed polygon coordinates(xv,yv); let X, Y be your grid coordinates.
idx = inpolygon(X,Y,xv,yv) ;
You got the indices, the same indices can be used for all the time steps.
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 28 Jun 2021
Edited: Walter Roberson on 28 Jun 2021
Your xv and yv are 2d but do not have the same number of columns.

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