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In general, **the PyAOS website provides information on Python packages and training resources that are unique
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to the atmosphere and ocean sciences and of interest to physical data scientists.**
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The focus is on packages and resources that are under active development and/or maintenance,
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have a non-trivial user-base (i.e. more users than just the author/s) and
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are for a general audience.
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have a non-trivial user-base (i.e. more users than just the author/s),
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offer somewhat unique functionality
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(i.e. rather than simply coordinating the execution of functionality from other packages)
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and are for a general audience.
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Following that definition, here are some examples of things that would be out of scope:
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* Unidata's [cftime](https://unidata.github.io/cftime/) package:
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* The [GeoPandas](https://geopandas.org/) package: While this is a great package for working with geospatial vector data,
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it is of interest to the much broader field of geospatial data science.
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In other words, it isn't unique (or even predominantly used by or supported by) the PyAOS community.
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* The [PCMDI Metrics Package](http://pcmdi.github.io/pcmdi_metrics/index.html) or [ESMValTool](https://docs.esmvaltool.org/en/latest/).
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Model evaluation/diagnostics packages like these tend to coordinate the execution of many existing packages
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(e.g. that calculate climate indices) rather than offering unique funcionality.
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If you're unsure whether a particular Python package or training resource is within scope,
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feel free to [open an issue](https://github.com/PyAOS/pyaos.github.io/issues)

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