Julius Busecke

Oh yes. I like that. But we should definitely track this in an issue, so we do not forget to switch it back.

You should be able to get the `pre-commit` CI to pass by following [these steps](https://xgcm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributor_guide.html#code-formatting). You can also install the black formatter for vscode 😜

Awesome. I am very excited for this addition.

I would like to pick up this discussion here, now that #344 is implemented. I believe we still need to agree on the naming, but I was also curious if...

> multiplying works blockwise, so it'll just get fused no? Ah yes good point!

Yes, that would be awesome. I am not very familiar with this, but will try to read into this. If anyone has experience in these sort of things, Id really...

That is a great suggestion in general though @dcherian. Lets keep our eyes peeled for upcoming opportunities. This does not need to happen immediately, but is a nice and constrained...

Great idea. That would help with a lot of observational datasets. I have used this style of output to calculate static cell depth in MOM5 output as well. There both...

This might also be a good fit for the CMIP6 Hackathon, where I assume many tasks will evolve around model validation. Being able to pass observational datasets into xgcm and...

So I initially tried this [here](https://github.com/jbusecke/cmip6-hackathon-demos/blob/master/notebooks/recreate_grid_metrics.ipynb), but it turns out that the `vertex` coordinate is not always ordered the same way for e.g. the CMIP6 ensemble: Effectively one doesnt know...