Julius Busecke

Since @roxyboy revived this on slack, I wanted to quickly update what I envision here. Hopefully others can chime in. I would like to be able to eventually do this:...

Dear @daanreijnders, thanks for reaching out. yes it is very much on *my internal roadmap*, and I would be very excited to have this functionality in xgcm. Implementing `xarray.coarsen` on...

I just looked into this and I think it is worth doing some internal refactoring of the metrics first (see #199).

> Good to note I'm just a novice user of xgcm And as such I am very inclined to make things easy from the start! I myself am unsure about...

I am still very keen on having this, and marked it to stay open.

> Yes, but how to define 'bounds' and 'centers' confused me for quite a time. For example, if I want to interpolate a dataset onto the theta (potential temperature) coordinate,...

This fits well into the proposed changes in #405.

> apply_ufunc should be able to automatically handle broadcasting in this case, so I'm not quite sure why we are raising this error here. I remember we discussed this case...

Oh I didnt know that works. Both approaches address slightly different problems, which we have lumped together in a single error. Id have to see how to seperate this out....

Lol, ok.