Sharing of representative datasets via compressed Zarr zips #2570
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Looks very good, a few comments below
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I realised that there is both a better approach to #2510, as well as a way that we can pave the way for Parcels-code/parcels-benchmarks#40 ("Future work: better testing").
This PR adds tooling and documentation that allows users to easily share datasets via the issue tracker. These datasets will be first trimmed of redundant array data, then shared as Zipped zarr files using
zarr.storage.ZipStore.This allows people to easily share their datasets - including the mesh itself - directly via GitHub (which has an upload limit of 25Mb for zips). Working with the MOI grid data in parcels-benchmarks the resulting dataset was only 26Mb (i.e., the
glamfandglamu).This PR also removes the old JSON approach as it is no longer needed.
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