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Make it easy to extract coords as separate cubes, and the reverse "injection"
Motivating examples:
- "get the altitude as an altitude cube"
- "add the data-quality array as an aux-coord".
Actually, this should almost certainly apply to other multidimensional cube components, not just coords.
I.E. cell-measures + ancillaries as well.
( cf. https://github.com/SciTools/iris/pull/3600, which proposes similar extensions to iris.util.new_axis )
See reference code ideas in : https://github.com/pp-mo/iris/pull/61
This idea was originally pushed as a WIP PR : https://github.com/SciTools/iris/pull/3485 , but that was confusing. So, now it's an issue instead.
This is still of interest and we believe there is enough demand to justify doing some work on this.