Nick Hodgskin

> certainly good to make an inventory like this later on in the v4-development. Let's keep it on the back-burner for now? Yes, agreed

> Or can/should we also remove the older versions from condo? Probably not (in case users _really_ want to use an older version). I think an FAQ item is sufficient.

> analytical functions...This is a bit more useful for validating interpolation methods. Agreed that we'd need analytical functions for validating interpolation methods. > I would vote for using analytical functions...

> What would be a use case for random data ? Oh yes, no particular usecase for random data - just wanted _something_ in there and the xgcm datasets had...

In response to https://github.com/OceanParcels/Parcels/issues/2004#issuecomment-2912516985 > * Curvilinear cartesian grid > * Spherical grid rectilinear > * Spherical grid curvilinear Yes, I think this would be good to put in `datasets.structured.generic`...

> [This is an MITgcm example](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-8EAWAQc_myrojnNm49bzEddkN-ivW83?usp=drive_link) dataset for a Cartesian rectilinear regional grid (baroclinic double gyre) that has 3 time levels in the netcdf file. The time is not managed...

Hi @JamiePringle , thanks for the offer. The intention of this issue is actually just to match the _structure_ of the datasets (rather than have actual datasets). This task has...

@fluidnumerics-joe and @erikvansebille , keen to hear what you think. Let me know if anything is unclear

I intentially left out time here since I think incorporating it into the Grid class (i.e., having time evolving grids) adds a lot of complexity that is a bit unknown...

> I can imagine that in the end, users will want to have their `(ti, zi, yi, xi)` and `(tau, zeta, eta, xsi)` for the interpolation Yes, 100%, in the...