An iris cube converter?

[DamienIrving]

Would it be possible to include a function to convert from an xray.DataArray to an iris.cube?

For weather/climate/ocean science, xray is by far the best library for general data processing, while iris and cartopy are the best for geospatial plotting. At the moment I usually write the results of my xray data processing out to a netCDF file, then read that file in with iris for plotting. I'm assuming many other people do the same, so a .to_cube() function might allow people to skip that extra input/output step.

[shoyer]

Yes, this would certainly be a welcome addition (see #37). If you're interested in working on this, #236 is reasonable template.