v1.8.0
bumped minor version number - reflects new features to extract data from netCDFs Former-commit-id: 502c52e5a7cec1adfcdba2add8124fc55d36f28e [formerly b748c4a5c8f7490e7911a043af655541899a0431] Former-commit-id: 677a0b9f2d16484cec4fbf094c4531f7c32229fd