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 Installation
 ============
 
-At the moment you can install the package via `pip` from
-GitHub. Before this, the binary `esmpy` dependency is required. This
-is easiest to install using Conda. To do so, first create a custom
-Conda environment, or activate an existing environment into which you
-want to install `esmpy` and `regional_mom6`. Then install `emspy`:
+We can install `regional_mom6` via `pip` from GitHub. A prerequisite of is that the binary `esmpy`
+dependency is first installed. The easiest way to install `esmpy` is using Conda.
+
+First we create a custom Conda environment, or activate an existing environment into which we
+will install `esmpy` and `regional_mom6`. Then install `emspy` via:
 
 ```{code-block} bash
 conda install -c conda-forge esmpy
 ```
 
-Alternatively, it's possible to follow the [Installing ESMPy from
-Source](https://earthsystemmodeling.org/esmpy_doc/release/latest/html/install.html#installing-esmpy-from-source)
-instructions to do this in a Conda-free way. With `esmpy` available, you can then install
-`regional_mom6` via pip. If your environment doesn't yet have pip, then `conda install pip` should do the job.
+Alternatively, to install `esmpy` in a Conda-free way, follow the instructions for [installing ESMPy from
+source](https://earthsystemmodeling.org/esmpy_doc/release/latest/html/install.html#installing-esmpy-from-source).
+With `esmpy` available, we can then install `regional_mom6` via pip. (If we don't have have pip, then `conda install pip`
+should do the job.)
 
 ```{code-block} bash
 pip install git+https://github.com/COSIMA/regional-mom6.git
 ```
 
-This will install the latest version of `regional_mom6` plus any required dependencies.
-`esmpy` won't be installed as a dependency and that's why need to install it separately.
+The above installs the version of `regional_mom6` (plus any required dependencies) that corresponds
+to the latest commit in GitHub. `esmpy` won't be installed as a dependency and that's why need to
+install it separately.
 
-Alternatively, you can also install a particular tag or git commit using, e.g.,
+We can also install `regional_mom6` from a particular tag or git commit using, e.g.,
 
 ```{code-block} bash
 pip install git+https://github.com/COSIMA/regional-mom6.git@v0.X.X