Jessica Scheick

Incorrect types passed by end-users at runtime are not caught until our code tries to do incompatible things with those objects (e.g. `.upper()` on an `Auth` instance)

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In testing for [implementing cloud read-in in icepyx](https://github.com/icesat2py/icepyx/pull/468) using CryoCloud, @rwegener2 and I discovered something changed between 0.6.2 and 0.8.2 that causes a failure where code ran successfully previously. In...

add us-west-2 check to API and improve auth repr

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Per #231, we've added API access to `store._running_in_us_west_2()` in the form of a printed statement that the user is (or is not) running in AWS region us-west-2. In the process...

improve netcdf multi-group reading and handle metadata QC issue

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Per [this discussion](https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/viewtopic.php?t=5154), ATL11 v006, ATL14 v003, and ATL15 v003 have metadata issues that cause icepyx to fail when it tries to get the version number from the granule file....

Add Examples Directory

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For new users, it can be unclear what the example notebooks are showing (as noted by @zachghiaccio [here](https://github.com/icesat2py/icepyx/pull/498#discussion_r1523383503)). It would be great to add some sort of index with brief...

Per [this discussion](https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/viewtopic.php?t=5154), ATL11 v006, ATL14 v003, and ATL15 v003 have metadata issues that cause icepyx to fail when it tries to get the version number from the granule file....

binder not working

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**Describe the bug** The binder environment does not appear to be building. After repeated attempts, it fails while stuck on "Using CondaBuildPack builder".

tqdm dependency missing with conda-forge install

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**Describe the bug** Tutorial notebooks require a dev install to run (due to missing dependency `tqdm`). **Full code that generate the error** As part of [this JOSS review](https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/6502), I followed...

add backend intro and how-to diagram

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- [x] Companion to https://github.com/xarray-contrib/xarray-tutorial/pull/266 (for SciPy 2024 tutorial) - [x] User visible changes (including notable bug fixes) are documented in `whats-new.rst`