Spencer Hill

I was considering using blogofile and blogofile_blog, but I'm hesitant because I see there haven't been any new commits in ~1 yr for either. Are the two projects still alive/actively...

Idiomatic way to change CO2 value in RRTMG

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Couldn't find this in the docs, settled on the following to e.g. double CO2: ```python radproc = climlab.radiation.RRTMG(...) radproc.absorber_vmr["CO2"] *= 2 ``` It seems to work, but I wanted to...

API suggestion: explicit accepted kwargs rather than **kwargs

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I was trying to make `FixedInsolation` instances representing different latitudes (for the daily-averaged insolation on a given day of the year). Using the `coszen` I generated using the `daily_insolation` function,...

How to specify initial condition for column RCE model

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Searching through the docs and source code, I can't figure out how to specify initial conditions for an RCE model (either a single column or lat-by-lat). Motivation: I am exploring...

Invalid argument errors with libnetcdf 4.5.0 but not 4.4.1

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(Not sure if this is best filed in this repo or https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c) Our CI test suite has recently yielded errors from netCDF4, and @spencerkclark has pinpointed libnetcdf 4.5.0 as the...

Partial datetime string parsing in cftime

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Recently in the xarray mailing list ([here](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/xarray/1-mzcXQNVII)) and in aospy ([here](https://github.com/spencerahill/aospy/pull/273#discussion_r191439050)) the need has arisen for the partial datetime string parsing that is currently implemented in xarray as private API,...

YAML-based specification of aospy objects

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In starting to play around with intake (motivated by #318), which uses yaml files to specify data catalogs, it occurred to me that we could reduce boilerplate and thus make...

Python errors in docs builds

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Even though the HTML files are being built successfully, there are some python errors in the code blocks we have embedded in the docs: https://dev.azure.com/spencerahill/aospy/_build/results?buildId=26&view=logs. For example: ```python WARNING:root:Skipping aospy...

Should we move aospy repository to its own 'aospy' organization?

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I created one: https://github.com/aospy Maybe that looks more professional than having it just on my account? Also, maybe this matters now that we're switching to Azure and the CI jobs...

Infer surface area from lat + lon if none provided.

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I want to use `Region`'s functionality on some non-aospy-generated data, but it doesn't have a separate surface area array, which we currently assume. So we should add support for inferring...