From 405d3aa0a689fdb159d75befef6d9fc78f0d093e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: raychew <chew@iau.uni-frankfurt.de>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 21:05:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] there is a memory leak somewhere; I think it's because I am
 not closing the data files

---
 src/io.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/io.py b/src/io.py
index 42853f5..a4f46b4 100644
--- a/src/io.py
+++ b/src/io.py
@@ -498,6 +498,9 @@ def __do_interp_lon_1D(self, dirs, fns, cnt_lon, lon_cnt, n_col, lon_idx_rng):
 
                 new_lon = np.linspace(new_min, new_max, new_sz)
 
+                merit_dat.close()
+                rema_dat.close()
+
                 return new_lon