-xCDAT (Xarray Climate Data Analysis Tools) is an open-source Python package that extends Xarray (Hoyer & Hamman, 2017) for climate data analysis on structured grids. xCDAT streamlines analysis of climate and weather data by exposing common climate and weather analysis operations through a set of straightforward APIs. Some of xCDAT's key features include spatial averaging, temporal averaging, and regridding. These features are inspired by the Community Data Analysis Tools (CDAT) library (Williams et al., 2009; Williams, 2014; Doutriaux et al., 2019) and leverage powerful packages in the [Xarray](https://docs.xarray.dev/en/stable/) ecosystem including [xESMF](https://github.com/pangeo-data/xESMF) (Zhuang et al., 2023), [xgcm](https://xgcm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) (Abernathey et al., 2022), and [CF xarray](https://cf-xarray.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) (Cherian et al., 2023). To ensure general compatibility across various climate models, xCDAT operates on datasets compliant with the Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata conventions (Hassell et al, 2017).
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