Philip Chmielowiec

@erogluorhan Thank you for pointing this out! Can you explain further what the concern in here? `ds_small_480km.uxgrid.Mesh2_node_faces` is actually computed internally, not currently parsed from MPAS datasets (#455) is planning...

> Do we store them in the `face areas` placeholder that we use when we compute internally or keep them in a new `externally read face area`? former might be...

> Add a table showing a mapping from MPAS and other meshes and how it maps to our internal uxarray (grid) convention. Good Idea, this would be useful for all...

Closing this as our [Milestones ](https://github.com/UXARRAY/uxarray/milestones) are used for this purpose.

Essentially, much of our `integrate` and other functionality would remain unchanged, since we would need to implement a way of obtaining a "subset" of our grid. For example ```Python #...

> Just an FYI: With this over-a-region functionality, the edge-faces may be expected to change to fit into the region in the newer Grid, so the subsetting implementation in PR...

> > Any new thoughts on this? > > I think our subsetting feature works to some extent for this. I am not sure what I exactly meant with my...

@erogluorhan This PR should wrap up basically everything we need for the Cookbook & Short Course. The only feature I wasn't able to get to is getting geographic projections to...

Closing this PR since it has become out of date. The linked issues and branch will remain up.

> @paullric @philipc2 Here is a notebook with a comparison between the BallTree and KDTree. @philipc2 do you want me to turn this into an example notebook to have on...