It looks like xarray is actually able to load OPenDAP datasets. Knowing that, it might be able to replace pydap for the task RAiDER. Fewer dependencies is usually better. Shall we see if this can be done?
As far as I can tell, PyDAP is not very ingrained in RAiDER. Replacing it with xarray would just involve changes to the fetch logic in our GMAO and MERRA2 interfaces, along with updating some documentation that mentions it.
It looks like xarray is actually able to load OPenDAP datasets. Knowing that, it might be able to replace pydap for the task RAiDER. Fewer dependencies is usually better. Shall we see if this can be done?
As far as I can tell, PyDAP is not very ingrained in RAiDER. Replacing it with xarray would just involve changes to the fetch logic in our GMAO and MERRA2 interfaces, along with updating some documentation that mentions it.