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Thanks @rabernat that awesome list looks pretty awesome.

However, I would still advocate for a more centralized approach to this problem. For instance, the NCL has a huge library of contributed functions which they distribute along with the code. By now, I am sure that xarray users have basically reimplemented equivalents to all of these functions, but without a centralized home it is still too difficult to find or contribute new codes.

For instance, I have a useful wrapper to scipy.ndimage that I use all the time, but it seems overkill to release/support a whole package for this one module. I would be much more likely to contribute a PR to a community run repository. I am also much more likely to use such a repo.

I would be more than willing to volunteer for such an effort, but I think it needs to involve multiple people. Various individuals have tried to make such repos on their own, but none seem to have reached critical mass. For example, https://github.com/crusaderky/xarray_extras https://github.com/fujiisoup/xr-scipy I think there should be multiple maintainers, so that if one person drops out, there still appears to be activity on the repo.