Daniele Nerini

These may be helpful for the task: - https://podaac-uat.jpl.nasa.gov/mcc/ (compliance checker) - http://cfconventions.org/

Hi Andrea, welcome to pysteps! This is an excellent proposition and certainly very appropriated considering the stage at which the package is now. I'm in favor of such development, let's...

Sounds excellent!

This is definitely needed and an excellent idea! The use of xarray can indeed represent an ideal solution to this issue, at the cost of introducing an additional external dependency....

So far we have tried to avoid using classes. The reason was simply that we wanted to keep the code as simple and linear as possible. But as you nicely...

Hi @wcwoo, many thanks for your comment. We can certainly learn a lot from your experience with the SWIRLS system! I think xarray still represents to us the best way...

Hi @kmuehlbauer ! Many thanks for your input and the very interesting example! We have discussed adopting xarray in the past and I think the main point and concern was...

Trying to advance this issue, I've drafted a PR which aims at including some (partial) support for xarray within pysteps, as well as a tutorial (based on @kmuehlbauer's excellent gist)...

Dear Michiel and Lesley Many thanks for starting this important discussion. (let's ping @pulkkins @RubenImhoff @loforest directly here too) For radar only nowcasts, the problem is somewhat simpler. Some routines...

@katelbach, we'll be able to merge your pull request once you address the two minor comments left above. Please let me know if something is not clear.