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 Individual features are indentified as either maxima or minima in a two dimensional time varying field.
 The volume/area associated with the identified objects can be determined based on a time-varying 2D or 3D field and a threshold value. The in thre tracking step, the identified objects are linked into consistent trajectories representing the cloud over its lifecycle.
 
+Detailed documentation of the package can be found at https://tobac.readthedocs.io.
+
+
 Installation
 ------------
 tobac now works for both Python 3 and Python 2 installations.
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 ------------
 tobac is now capable of working with both Python 2 and Python 3 (tested for 2.7,3.6 and 3.7) installations.
 
+The easiest way is to install the most recent version of tobac via conda and the conda-forge channel:
+
+```
+conda install -c conda-forge tobac 
+```
+
+This will take care of all necessary dependencies and should do the job for most users and also allows for an easy update of the installation by
+
+```
+conda update -c conda-forge tobac 
+```
+
+
+You can also install conda via pip, which is mainly interesting for development purposed or to use specific development branches for the Github repository.
+
 The follwoing python packages are required (including dependencies of these packages):
    
 *trackpy*, *scipy*, *numpy*, *iris*, *scikit-learn*, *scikit-image*, *cartopy*, *pandas*, *pytables* 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from setuptools import setup
 
 setup(name='tobac',
-      version='1.1.1',
+      version='1.2',
       description='Tracking and object-based analysis of clouds',
       url='http://github.com/climate-processes/tobac',
       author='Max Heikenfeld',