SciTools/iris — pull request #1068 by niallrobinson (2014-03-14 09:54:06+00:00)
Title: Method to pad cubes with masked values so the are comparable

Changed all cubes in a cube list so that they have similar, maximal coords (along dimensions specified) by padding cube data with masked values. e.g. metacodeL
```
cube_a.coord('time') = Jun 2010 -> Nov 2011
cube_b.coord('time') = Mar 2010 -> Aug 2011
new_cube_a, new_cube_b = iris.cube.CubeList([cube_a, cube_b]).pad_coords('time')
new_cube_a.coord('time') == new_cube_b.coord('time')
new_cube_a.data[Mar:Jun] == Masked
new_cube_b.data[Aug:Nov] == Masked
```