Further cleanup of the tutorials - #2834
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And other small fixes, like hiding some plotting cells and reducing bold Parcels
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Looked though everything. Great to have cross-refs! Can you update the list accordingly in #2449 (or, if you feel so, maybe this PR closes that too).
I've added some comments - feel free to respond to them and merge as you see fit
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| Each `parcels.Field` is defined on a grid. With Parcels, we can simulate particles in fields on both structured (**`parcels.XGrid`**) and unstructured (**`parcels.UxGrid`**) grids. The grid is defined by the coordinates of grid cell nodes, edges, and faces. `parcels.XGrid` objects are based on Xarray Datasets with attached SGRID metadata, while `parcels.UxGrid` objects are based on [`uxarray.Grid`](https://uxarray.readthedocs.io/en/stable/generated/uxarray.Grid.html#uxarray.Grid) objects. | ||
| Each {py:obj}`parcels.Field` is defined on a grid. With Parcels, we can simulate particles in fields on both structured (**{py:obj}`parcels.XGrid`**) and unstructured (**{py:obj}`parcels.UxGrid`**) grids. The grid is defined by the coordinates of grid cell nodes, edges, and faces. {py:obj}`parcels.XGrid` objects are based on Xarray Datasets with attached SGRID metadata, while {py:obj}`parcels.UxGrid` objects are based on [`uxarray.Grid`](https://uxarray.readthedocs.io/en/stable/generated/uxarray.Grid.html#uxarray.Grid) objects. |
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nit: Maybe we should also add a note here that that this is quite internal?
while {py:obj}`parcels.UxGrid` objects are based on [`uxarray.Grid`](https://uxarray.readthedocs.io/en/stable/generated/uxarray.Grid.html#uxarray.Grid) objects.
+ The user doesn't need to manually construct or manage grids - this is done internally by Parcels. When using {py:obj}`parcels.FieldSet.from_sgrid_conventions()` or {py:obj}`parcels.FieldSet.from_ugrid_conventions()` the correct grid object is constructed for your data.
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Wondering about these ignores for class and mod?
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These come from warnings in the docstrings themselves. If I don't add these ignore rules, I get the following output. I didn't want to deal with them in the PR - and am not sure we should in another?
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This PR further cleans the documentation; mostly by adding
{p:obj}and{py:func}MyST tags for links to the API. But is also provides other small fixes that I stumbled upon as I went through the documentation one more time before releaseChecklist
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