Support other coordinate systems

[kjnam]

Proposed new feature or change:

Hi,
I believe uxarray uses the lat/long coordinate system internally. It would be awesome if uxarray can support different coordinate systems including projected coordinate systems. (There are different lat/long geographical coordinate system as well.) This may be a bit out of scope of uxarray, but it is often convenient to use local coordinate systems and to keep the original coordinate systems for a small domain.
Thanks for the great work!

[philipc2]

Hi @kjnam

This is definitely something that we've considered, especially given some of our visualization efforts.

I'll bring this up during our next group meeting!

[kjnam]

@philipc2 Thanks. 👍 Looking forward to it. Since we use local projected coordinate systems often in our simulations, this is important when we use uxarray plotting routines. Maybe we can start with a flag that prevents clipping and antemeridian with the lat/long assumption.

[philipc2]

@philipc2 Thanks. 👍 Looking forward to it. Since we use local projected coordinate systems often in our simulations, this is important when we use uxarray plotting routines. Maybe we can start with a flag that prevents clipping and antemeridian with the lat/long assumption.

Would you happen to have a sample grid that I could take a look into?

[kjnam]

@philipc2 This is from a hypothetical case, which does not have a coordinate system; https://cadwr.box.com/s/usbnppoi27036jq8hji7qig4gxinidhc. I guess you can try this.

[philipc2]

https://cadwr.box.com/s/usbnppoi27036jq8hji7qig4gxinidhc

Thanks! I'll give this a look.