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 # GIS Capabilities
 
-* Subsetting (e.g. intersects and intersection) of climate datasets by bounding box, Shapely geometries, or shapefiles (polygon, line, point) (e.g. city centroid, river reach, a single county or watershed, state boundaries).
+* Subsetting (intersects and intersection) of climate datasets by bounding box, Shapely geometries, or shapefiles (polygon, line, point) (city centroid, river reach, a single county or watershed, state boundaries).
 * Time and level range subsetting. Also allows for arbitrary label-based slicing.
-* Single or multi-dataset requests (i.e. concatenation).
+* Single or multi-dataset requests (concatenation).
 * Area-weighted aggregation (spatial averaging) to selection geometries.
 * Handles CF-based coordinate systems with full support for coordinate transformations (including the rotated pole coordinate system)
 * Geometry wrapping and unwrapping to maintain logically consistent longitudinal domains.