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Hi Dave, Apologies for the delay in getting back to you. We are looking for solutions for sharing the acceptance test data, but we've not made quick progress on this....

@mspelman07 you will also need to look at reducing the size of your acceptance test inputs, particularly in light of this morning's discussions. These files are both currently more than...

@cpelley I don't think we pin for any reason other than leaving it floating means it can change underneath us. The github actions environment that is built can then differ...

We are intending to remove this local timezone functionality from IMPROVER. We are no longer intending to use or develop it.

@NMC-DAVE it may now be too late to be of use to you, but we have finally made the acceptance test data associated with IMPROVER available in an open source...

### Progress - I have updated a copy of Tom's acceptance test data branch to merge in changes we've made to weighted-blending (attribute changes). This can be found in the...

### Issues The new test data appears to have been carefully selected to ensure we are capturing the required elements in our tests. There is only one issue that I...

@MoseleyS this needs another blue team review please. Fresh eyes would be useful to pick out anything I've missed.

## Update Changes [described here](https://github.com/metoppv/improver/issues/1804#issuecomment-1386924050) PR now associated with acceptance test data branch: `shrink_atd_1` [Notebook plotting comparisons](https://github.com/MetOffice/improver_aux/blob/acceptance_test_data_shrinking/notebooks/acceptance_test_data/shrink_atd_1.ipynb) between the original and modified data.

@NMC-DAVE we are working on shrinking file sizes and improving the documentation such that we can host the acceptance test data online. We don't currently know when this work will...