raphael dussin

from the pypi and conda docs, it seems that the way to go is to start with creating the pypi package then the conda recipe. I can start testing it...

@jbusecke a few things to consider, based on my experience writing [VCR](https://github.com/raphaeldussin/VCR): 1. For conservative regridding on irregularly spaced depth, you'll need the API to read center depth and interfaces...

going further down the rabbit hole, I found out that step_MOM is called with time interval = coupled timestep and not dt_therm. This comes from the coupled driver here: https://github.com/NOAA-GFDL/MOM6/blob/70cfd64c8e04bc550eb0603060230a5e2b7ac4f3/config_src/coupled_driver/ocean_model_MOM.F90#L574...

the last time we pulled esmpy from conda on @lgloege machine, it failed to run `import ESMF` properly. I was under the impression that the conda recipe was broken. I...

@lgloege update, this works: ```bash conda create -n test_esmpy python=3.7 source activate test_esmpy conda install esmpy conda install xesmf git clone https://github.com/JiaweiZhuang/xESMF.git xESMF cd xESMF/ py.test -v xesmf ```

@jessluo can you post what are the version of esmf, esmpy, xesmf you're using? Not sure if it's related but I had issues recently that I solved using the mpich...

@KellyNthn are you on mac or linux?

I've been experiencing some issues on my mac as well. Not sure what's the problem right now. My Linux seems to be working ok, just installed a brand new env...

Comparing across forks: JiaweiZhuang:masking is up to date with all commits from jhamman:feature/masks. so this PR can be closed

xesmf is a code that I use very regularly and I want to see maintained so I'll help as well if you need me