Our friends over at @zarr.dev made a big release today. Xarray v2025.01.1 was also released today with support for Zarr-Python 3 🚀

Zarr@zarr.dev · 2y ago

🎉 Zarr-Python 3 is here! 🎉 - Full support for Zarr v3 spec - Chunk-sharding for more efficient data storage - Major performance boosts with async I/O & parallel compression 💻 pip install --upgrade zarr 💻 conda install --channel conda-forge zarr Blog post: https://buff.ly/3C3OwYw

Check out our writeup of xagg, the #python package to aggregate gridded data (e.g. climate, weather) to polygons (e.g. ADMIN# layers) in @joss-openjournals.bsky.social . `xagg` aggregates based on relative area overlaps b/w the raster and polygons and optionally by other grids (e.g., pop density)!

Journal of Open Source Software@joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just published in JOSS: 'xagg: A Python package to aggregate gridded data onto polygons' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07239