Rajeev Jain

### Proposed new feature or change: In the current implementation we assume that spherical triangles are composed of great circle arcs. However, if one edge of the triangle is a...

great circle distance function

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### Proposed new feature or change: Add a function to get the distance between two points on a shpere. I was hoping this is already implemented, but couldn't find it....

### Proposed new feature or change: Implement the Welzl's algorithm and report face centerpoint if request after loading a mesh file.

Minimal reader for MPAS etc.

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### Proposed new feature or change: This "minimal" reader would only reads corner nodes and face node connectivity, ignoring other info in grid file. #953

### Proposed new feature or change: Potentially removing some files from tests and using files online or hosted in another repo. #808