Ryan May

So the whole situation is kind of a mess. Pandas apparent does actually support timezones but that gets stored under its own Dtype; numpy `datetime64` is [defined to be naive](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/6453);...

So for completeness, #3255 implements this using a sensible mix: * Internally used `datetime` (e.g. directly passed to string formatting) stay tz-aware when generated * Stored and user-visible `datetime` instances...

Looks like some metadata bytes we were parsing at some point got converted to spares, which is fine...except when those "spares" contain seemingly random bytes that break the parsing. Thanks...

Thanks for the suggestions. We'd definitely like to improve our calculation, see for instance #508. One other challenge is trying to make sure we maintain sufficient run-time performance, which of...

We're probably not going to get to this for awhile, but would be happy to see someone tackle this, it should be straightforward. It doesn't look like the above PDF...

It was my understanding that with the index refactor in xarray that we should be able to make this happen now? I haven't tried recently, but I think something basic...

@SPiltz01 a couple of questions if you don't mind: 1. The paper never specifies values for the f_db and f_dif (direct beam and diffuse radiation from the sun). Were the...

@mcallic2 I also found this [version of the paper](http://www.iaeng.org/publication/WCECS2011/WCECS2011_pp591-599.pdf). It may or may not be helpful.

This is still very much todo with a need for tests and docstrings, but I want to see if anyone has API/interface thoughts. Such as: is the class-instance based interface...

@blaylockbk Thanks for the feedback! The point about using a single GOES client with different satellites is a really good suggestion, thanks. I'd love to hear more considerations based your...