Kyle Mandli

@hudaquresh just showed me this too for the storm surge code. I think it's because of the hold commands being used.

Working on fixes for this in #271.

The nominal way to get started with this is to try out `ifort`'s vectorization report.

@kbarnhart So the backend supplements what is in the current Python classes by directly importing it into an xarray data structure? Does it use code that is currently available? I...

Sounds perfect! We do this sometimes with other data structures and pandas data frames, which can be useful. The other big class that in theory would use pandas is `GaugeSolution`...

I just ran this and found ``` there are 1 grids with 8000 cells at level 1 At line 69 of file /Users/mandli/src/clawpack/amrclaw/src/3d//intfil.f Fortran runtime error: Index '0' of dimension...

I have seen this come up in other contexts as well, mostly plotting though. I think it may actually be a change in `matplotlib` though. Definitely deserves some attention to...

Does this work across versions of Python?

I am not sure but I think your assumption is probably correct. At the very least we should test this and if there is a difference then fence it off...

This is based on work by @MarcKjerland to integrate ASCII WRF input.