Earthio Quarter 3, 2017 Priorities

[PeterDSteinberg]

Earthio Quarter 3, 2017 Priorities

Let's address the checklist below in approximately the order shown, aiming to get this list done by AGU December.

• [x] Continue work on transition of load_array and load_meta question #31
• [ ] Remove attrpackage use #29
• [ ] Address changes after xarray_filters changes and Elm PR 187 #28
• [ ] Use Grib files with xarray / earthio in progress #20
• [ ] Review / modify earthio/tif.py as it relates to xarray rasterio in progress #17
• [ ] Earth science data catalogue in progress #16
• [ ] Package for GIS / Earth science, e.g. coord transform, satellite utils ready #13
• [ ] Simplify earthio's readers - move to XArray data store back end class in progress #12
• [ ] Resolve NetCDF Python 2.7 issue seen in Travis #7
• [ ] EDIT (Nov 3) - Fix test failures resulting from xarray_filters refactor and changes to load_array -

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Docs / cleanup / promotion of Elm and related tools

• [ ] Documentation - status of Earthio and its relation of Elm/xarray/xarray_filters #32

cc @gbrener @hsparra