New shxarray accessor for working with spherical harmonic data

[strawpants]

What is your issue?

The shxarray open source Python module (docs here), I've been working on, now contains a decent amount of functionality to work with (geodesy related) spherical harmonic data (e.g. GRACE-like data, terrestrial water storage, geoids, etc.). The tool is intended for use in research and education.

In the module, I've extended xarray through an sh accessor, which offers geodesy-domain related functionality, and added some backends to read in some dedicated formats (e.g. icgem format, SINEX format) as Datasets.

In the documentation you mentioned to open an issue in case a new xarray accessor was developed, so I'm opening up this issue accordingly.

Would the shxarray module qualify to be listed on the related projects page? Or should I open a PR on this somewhere else?

cheers

Roelof

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[dcherian]

Would the shxarray module qualify to be listed on the related projects page? Or should I open a PR on this somewhere else?

Absolutely! please send in a PR