Several scripts failing with intake when using npl-2024b environment

[fobryan3]

An error emerges when using conda environment 2024b for all scripts that use intake to access the observations catalog. The following code segment reproduces the error:

import intake
catalog = intake.open_catalog('/glade/u/home/gmarques/libs/oce-catalogs/reference-datasets.yml')
obs = catalog['woa-2018-tx2_3v2-annual-all'].to_dask()

The to_dask() method triggers the error:

AttributeError: 'NetCDFSource' object has no attribute 'pattern'

This does not occur in environment npl-2024a.

Note that npl environments between 2023a and 2024a included intake version 0.7.0 while 2024b has 2.0.6.