Acknowledgements
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Funding
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PyLag was developed using funding from the following sources:

* Natural Environment Research Council (grants `NE/L003988/1 <https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FL003988%2F1>`_, `NE/S012567/1 <https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FS012567%2F1>`_)

* The Economic and Social Research Council (grant `ES/S002448/1 <https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS002448%2F1>`_)

* The European Union Interreg project `MyCoast <http://mycoast-project.org/>`_.

Contributors
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* `Dr James Clark (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) <https://www.pml.ac.uk/People/Science_Staff/Dr_James_Clark>`_
* Dr Pierre Cazenave (formerly Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
* `Dr Ricardo Torres (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) <https://www.pml.ac.uk/People/Science_Staff/Dr_Ricardo_Torres>`_
* `Dr Michael Bedington (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) <https://www.pml.ac.uk/People/Science_Staff/_Dr_Michael_Bedington>`_

Dependencies
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PyLag is directly dependent on several other software packages. Without these pacakages, PyLag and its associated documentation would not exist. The list of dependencies include:

* `python <https://www.python.org>`_
* `ipython <https://www.ipython.org>`_
* `Cython <https://cython.org>`_
* `MPI for Python <https://github.com/mpi4py/mpi4py>`_
* `NumPy <https://numpy.org>`_
* `SciPy <https://scipy.org>`_
* `python-progressbar <https://github.com/niltonvolpato/python-progressbar>`_
* `natsort <https://github.com/SethMMorton/natsort>`_
* `netCDF4 <https://unidata.github.io/netcdf4-python/netCDF4/index.html>`_
* `cftime <https://unidata.github.io/cftime/>`_
* `stripy <https://github.com/underworldcode/stripy>`_
* `joblib <https://github.com/joblib/joblib>`_
* `Sphinx <https://sphinx-doc.org>`_
* `nbsphinx <https://github.com/spatialaudio/nbsphinx>`_
* `jupyter <https://jupyter.org>`_
* `Matplotlib <https://matplotlib.org>`_
* `Cartopy <https://scitools.org.uk/cartopy>`_
* `ffmpeg <https://ffmpeg.org>`_
* `pyproj <https://github.com/pyproj4/pyproj>`_
* `PyQt-Fit by Pierre Barbier de Reuille <https://gitlab.ecosystem-modelling.pml.ac.uk/jimc/pyqt-fit>`_
* `PyFVCOM <https://gitlab.ecosystem-modelling.pml.ac.uk/fvcom/pyfvcom/tree/master/PyFVCOM>`_
* `Simple cubic spline by Tino Kruge <https://kluge.in-chemnitz.de/opensource/spline>`_