From f7dea2621ae7372519ed6e0115416192b03a750e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dcherian Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 12:50:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add metpy accessor. Closes #461 --- doc/data-structures.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/data-structures.rst b/doc/data-structures.rst index 618ccccff3e..1ff415b8812 100644 --- a/doc/data-structures.rst +++ b/doc/data-structures.rst @@ -549,6 +549,14 @@ binary operations that act on xarray objects. In the future, we hope to write more helper functions so that you can easily make your functions act like xarray's built-in arithmetic. +CF-compliant coordinate variables +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +`MetPy`_ adds a ``metpy`` accessor that allows accessing coordinates with appropriate CF metadata using generic names ``x``, ``y``, ``vertical`` and ``time``. See `their documentation`_ for more information. + +.. _`MetPy`: https://unidata.github.io/MetPy/dev/index.html +.. _`their documentation`: https://unidata.github.io/MetPy/dev/tutorials/xarray_tutorial.html#coordinates + Indexes ~~~~~~~