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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Hello ECCO users,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">I want to announce that the ECCOv4 Python Tutorial “read the docs” page and ecco-v4-py Python library has had some updates.&nbsp;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">ECCOv4 Tutorial Page:
<span style="color:black"><a href="https://ecco-v4-python-tutorial.readthedocs.io/index.html">https://ecco-v4-python-tutorial.readthedocs.io/index.html</a>,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">ecco-v4-py Python Library: &nbsp;<span style="color:black"><a href="https://github.com/ECCO-GROUP/ECCOv4-py">https://github.com/ECCO-GROUP/ECCOv4-py</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Earlier this year we experimented with several alternative ways of dividing up the ECCO fields into NetCDF files.&nbsp; We picked one of those alternatives and have now
 updated the tutorials to reflect that choice.&nbsp; The main differences have to do with the file directory tree is organized and with the helper routines used to read and combine the NetCDF files.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">At present, the Python tutorial and the ecco-v4-py libraries were written for the ECCOv4 Release 3 NetCDF files provided in the ‘<b>Release3_alt’</b> directories
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">The ECCO v4 state estimate is now available in two places.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">PO.DAAC drive (recommended):
<a href="https://ecco.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/Version4/">https://ecco.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/Version4/</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">UT Austin FTP mirror:
<a href="https://web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/OceanProjects/ECCO/ECCOv4/">https://web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/OceanProjects/ECCO/ECCOv4/</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">With the ‘<b>Release3_alt</b>’ directories found here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">PO.DAAC drive (recommended):
<a href="https://ecco.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/Version4/Release3_alt">https://ecco.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/Version4/Release3_alt</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">UT Austin mirror: <a href="https://web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/OceanProjects/ECCO/ECCOv4/Release3_alt">
https://web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/OceanProjects/ECCO/ECCOv4/Release3_alt</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">We are still working on improving how we distribute the ECCOv4 solution as NetCDF.&nbsp; Specifically, we are adding more metadata, clarifying variable descriptions, removing
 extraneous fields, and using more consistent naming).&nbsp; These improvements will be implemented in the ECCO Version 4 Release 4 NetCDF files (due to be out soon!).&nbsp;
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