VAPOR Python API to provide support for ZARR data format

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VAPOR Python API to provide support for ZARR data format #3271

Open shaomeng opened 1 year ago

shaomeng commented 1 year ago

It appears that the ZARR data format (https://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) is gaining momentum in the Python ecosystem. For example, Matthias Rempel plans to output his ASD simulation data in ZARR format.

It'd be nice to have support for ZARR format in VAPOR's Python API.

clyne commented 1 year ago

Reading Zarr files with VAPOR may already be possible using the NetCDF API. See this posting.

clyne commented 1 year ago

Just a followup note that the even if NetCDF can read the Zarr file it will still have to have CF convention attributes for VAPOR to understand it.