Alex Chamberlain-Clay

So, the reason I had to figure out how to create them was that I had some grib data that is in model-level format, and I needed to feed it...

@trexfeathers That sounds great. I don't know when I'll be able to get around to it, but my hope is this summer to do so (along with the other topics...

I think it would certainly help, although they do highlight the flaw in how the documentation for iris is written. Unsurprisingly, programmers writing it have focused on the _abstract_ use...

Thanks for the review Bill, made the requested changes and added the extra links.

I Think it does. All the builtins use the `_pt_date` function, which requires calling the `cftime.num2date` function on every time point in the coord. each operation is indervidually a few...

If this does happen, a hypothetical Iris 4 could have this as the default behaviour, and the current strict handling for floating points be a 'StrictConstraint' instead.

> I mean whether, in general, you can define such a grid using corner points etc. (see [here](https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/realearth/solved-north-american-domain-rap-13-5km-rotated-pole-grib2-for-gis/)). Iris can read in rotated pole data fine - it's a common...

Since this is a pretty big flaw in iris for users (CDS data is only becoming more used) I think a hacky solution now (or this release) is better than...

Yea I can see from above you've already put alot of thought into this problem. I just thought it would be putting in my hat as a user that there's...

Thanks for pointing this out Hamish - some thoughts on why I implemented it how it is (which doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed!) As you can guess from the...