Pin dask to avoid 2024.8.0 - problems with masked fill/missing values (#2504)

Author: valeriupredoi

environment.yml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dependencies:
   - cartopy
   - cf-units
   - cftime
-  - dask
+  - dask !=2024.8.0  # github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/issues/2503
   - dask-jobqueue
   - distributed
   - esgf-pyclient >=0.3.1

setup.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     'install': [
         'cartopy',
         'cf-units',
-        'dask[array,distributed]',
+        'dask[array,distributed]!=2024.8.0',  # ESMValCore/issues/2503
         'dask-jobqueue',
         'esgf-pyclient>=0.3.1',
         'esmf-regrid>=0.10.0',  # iris-esmf-regrid #342