Julius Busecke

Dear @tomchor , Thanks for using xgcm so extensively. If xgcm works for you (and it seems it does 🤗) you are absolutely the target audience. I have started to...

This could be something that the current work of @jdldeauna might address?

Sweet! This looks like a very nice start. I have been dabbling with this a while ago (before the metrics were integrated though) [here](https://github.com/jbusecke/xarrayutils/blob/master/xarrayutils/xgcm_utils.py). I wrote some logic to detect...

Hi @miniufo, thanks for the continued enthusiasm. @rabernat and I have been discussing this for quite some time, and we both want to stay with very 'basic' operators for the...

Awesome @miniufo. I think it would be great to have some atmospheric data in this ocean dominated group of maintainers 😁 . Ill be in touch when the example notebook...

Hi @miniufo, thanks for the three examples. There are several questions here, let me try to answer them in row: 1. >Also, can a default boundary condition be set initially...

I have [this](https://github.com/jbusecke/xarrayutils/blob/0c8e42b97caebf50a2350c5bf19176a39fec9018/xarrayutils/xgcm_utils.py#L50-L89) in [xarrayutils](https://github.com/jbusecke/xarrayutils). Would be happy to migrate and adapt if people think this is useful. ```python def _infer_gridtype(grid, u, v, verbose=False): """Infer Grid type (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arakawa_grids). Currently supports...

> Sounds like you're talking about div/grad/curl autoinferring every time they're called. I think it'd be nicer to have it as a property of the grid object, so you set...

But I generally agree, it would be nicer as a grid property. Perhaps we can add this functionality as a stand-along utility? E.g. when the user does `grid.div(....)`, and the...

> Why? pop-tools has a helper functions that makes POP output sane and constructs the xgcm object so it should be gfine. Oh for sure, but I am just thinking...