Deprecate built-in iris conversion in favor of ncData
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Description
What is your issue?
Our built-in iris conversion has not changed in many years and this seems potentially a lot more featureful: https://ncdata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/details/api/ncdata.iris_xarray.html
cc @pp-mo @trexfeathers
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Research direction
Start by reviewing xarray’s built-in iris conversion and the linked ncData iris_xarray API documentation. Determine the scope and migration path for deprecating the built-in conversion in favor of ncData; the issue does not name specific files, tests, or acceptance criteria.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100