Merge RC_v1.6.0 into main

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 87.17617% with 99 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 63.53%. Comparing base (3a8ffba) to head (7876d8f).
⚠️ Report is 384 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
tobac/utils/internal/iris_utils.py	63.88%	52 Missing ⚠️
tobac/utils/internal/xarray_utils.py	87.50%	15 Missing ⚠️
tobac/feature_detection.py	81.96%	11 Missing ⚠️
tobac/plotting.py	31.25%	11 Missing ⚠️
tobac/utils/bulk_statistics.py	82.35%	3 Missing ⚠️
tobac/utils/internal/coordinates.py	96.20%	3 Missing ⚠️
tobac/utils/general.py	90.47%	2 Missing ⚠️
tobac/segmentation/watershed_segmentation.py	97.61%	1 Missing ⚠️
tobac/wrapper.py	0.00%	1 Missing ⚠️

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- Misses       1393     1401       +8     

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