This should be documented. Ideally we wouldn't be relying on Python packages but the functionality provided by xgcm is not available in Julia and would be time consuming to recreate ourselves.
I think we want users to be able to launch simulations using julia on the command line from any machine --- having a python environment is probably important for that
This should be documented. Ideally we wouldn't be relying on Python packages but the functionality provided by xgcm is not available in Julia and would be time consuming to recreate ourselves.