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                                            Steven Decker

METAR Parsing for Precipitation Accumulation and Remarks Section

I second all of @mzuranski 's suggestions, and, once parsing of SLP remarks is included, there should be an option to set `air_pressure_at_sea_level` to NaN if there is no SLP...

Laplacian and Second Derivative

My comment from July was too terse. I think GEMPAK has it right. In spherical coordinates (which the problematic GFS data employs), second derivatives are not enough to compute the...

Laplacian and Second Derivative

I concur with @dopplershift. The first option + resolving #893 should fix this issue for free.

Improve discussion of array types in "Working With Units" tutorial

Should there be a row for `xarray.Dataset` in point 2?

Improve discussion of array types in "Working With Units" tutorial

Yes, a comment works. Anything that alerts the reader that `metpy.quantify` can be applied to an entire `Dataset` and not necessarily individual `DataArray`s one at a time (which is what...

Helpful declarative `setattr` and trait validation

Does this issue address the problem described in this notebook? https://gist.github.com/sgdecker/8c90f2300da03de296e1d934b47e1cd1

Helpful declarative `setattr` and trait validation

That notebook is the smallest snippet I have, so by all means, go ahead and open a new issue. Thanks!

Helpful declarative `setattr` and trait validation

Let me know if this is worth a new issue, and I realize the existing inconsistencies are just holdovers from the underlying Cartopy feature names, but a list like `panel.layers...

gdxarray() returns unusable objects from "thinned GFS" files

Isn't CED just latitude_longitude / PlateCarree?