Xgcm

What's Changed

* Adding metrics method by jdldeauna in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/336
* Allow for overwriting metrics in set_metrics method by jdldeauna in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/351
* Integrate interp_like with get_metric by jdldeauna in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/354
* Refactor get_metric by jdldeauna in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/345
* Add configuration for stale issue bot by andersy005 in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/341
* add interp metric method by jdldeauna in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/343
* Fix indentation and grid-aware by jbusecke in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/346
* Add periodic and boundary conditions to interp_like by jdldeauna in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/350
* Fix Arakawa grids Wikipedia page link by yz3062 in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/353
* Exempt bug issues from automatic closing. by jbusecke in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/348
* Leftover typo from 330 by jbusecke in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/339
* Bump actions/stale from 3 to 4 by dependabot in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/357
* Update stale workflow by andersy005 in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/352
* Drop Support for python 3.6 by jbusecke in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/361
* Update constructor docstring and input checks by jbusecke in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/358
* Bump codecov/codecov-action from 1 to 2.0.2 by dependabot in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/359
* update whats new rst by jdldeauna in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/363
* Fix broken style check by jbusecke in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/373
* Remove deprecated gcmdataset code by TomNicholas in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/372
* Remove stale bot by jbusecke in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/374
* Fix test_weighted_metric_multi_axis so it actually runs by TomNicholas in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/379
* Update docrep by TomNicholas in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/384
* adding boundary condition by rcaneill in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/325
* Keep coords deprecation warning by TomNicholas in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/383
* Documented removal of docrep dependency, and updated whatsnew to v0.6.1 by TomNicholas in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/385

New Contributors
* yz3062 made their first contribution in https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/pull/353

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/xgcm/xgcm/compare/v0.5.2...v0.6.0

This release includes improved documentation and bugfixes

Bugfix to support older numba versions for the `grid.transform` feature

Introducing the new capability to transform data onto different coordinates (e.g. onto density in the vertical) + minor bugfixes

Usability improvements and internal refactor of CI + minor bugfixes

xgcm is now able to handle to deal with grid metrics like area, distance and volume.

Several 'metric-aware' operations, like `integrate`, `derivative` and `average` have been added as class functions to the `Grid` object.