[PRE REVIEW]: ncompare: A Python package for comparing netCDF structures

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@dkauf42<!--end-author-handle-- (Daniel E Kaufman) Repository: https://github.com/nasa/ncompare Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): joss-paper Version: 1.8.0 Editor: !--editor-->@arfon<!--end-editor-- Reviewers: @cmtso, @cmarmo Managing EiC: Arfon Smith

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.5281/zenodo.7112925 is OK
- 10.1063/1.4823180 is OK
- 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2 is OK
- 10.5334/jors.148 is OK
- 10.1109/38.56302 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: Python 3 Reference Manual
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Hierarchical Data Format, version 5
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Python: A dynamic, open source programming languag...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: TEMPO geolocated Earth radiances (BETA)

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- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2008.03.004 is INVALID because of 'https://doi.org/' prefix
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2016.05.008 is INVALID because of 'https://doi.org/' prefix

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Software report:

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Commit count by author:

   282  danielfromearth
   152  ncompare bot
    59  dependabot[bot]
    33  Daniel Kaufman

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 939

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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[arfon]

@dkauf42 – thanks for your submission to JOSS. I see there is a NOSA license under the licenses folder. Could you also please make sure there is a plain-text version of the license at the root of the repository named LICENSE?

[arfon]

Cross-linking with pyOpenSci submission here: https://github.com/pyOpenSci/software-submission/issues/146

[RMeli]

@arfon I can edit this one if needed.

[arfon]

@RMeli – there's actually no work to do here as the paper has already been accepted at pyOpenSci. But thanks anyway!

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