Confirm current topo examples are adequate without NCL_topo_1.py and/or revise and minimize resource use

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GeoCAT-examples provides a gallery of visualization examples demonstrating how to reproduce plots from NCL Applications scripts with packages in Python. It also includes some longer form examples demonstrating how to use functionality from various GeoCAT packages.

https://geocat-examples.readthedocs.io

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Confirm current topo examples are adequate without NCL_topo_1.py and/or revise and minimize resource use #564

Closed kafitzgerald closed 12 months ago

kafitzgerald commented 1 year ago

NCL_topo_1.py was removed with #557 because it was using excessive resources (memory) and causing docs build failures.

We should confirm (more thoroughly) this example is no longer needed and/or revise it to make it less resource intensive.

kafitzgerald commented 1 year ago

Interestingly, the original (coarser) dataset from the NCL example is still available: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/relief/ETOPO5/TOPO/ETOPO5/ETOPO5.DAT

I think it's also a funky binary file, which might make for a good example as well. The newer dataset in netCDF format makes things pretty easy.

I'm going to try to edit the script and get it working with the older dataset. Seems like that'd be the best way forward here.