MetPy 1.1.0 Released!

[dcamron]

This is the first feature release since 1.0.

Highlights

• Added classes to read a variety of data in GEMPAK-formatted files
• Added showalter_index calculation
• Added PlotGeometry to the simplified plotting interface, which makes it easy to plot a variety of geospatial data (e.g. SPC convective outlooks or NHC hurricane wind swaths in geojson format). See this notebook for examples.
• Significantly improved METAR parser to output both the visibility and remarks part of the reports, as well as better handle more weather codes (like 'FU')
• Improvements to simplified plotting interface including better notebook tab completion, support for controlling font size, and GEMPAK-like zooming on areas (e.g. '+us')
• Improved detection of problematic soundings in calculations
• Dropped support for Python <3.7 and NumPy <1.17
• Reduced the time it takes to import metpy.io
• Fixed up a variety of unit issues in calculations

Contributors

@dopplershift, @joejoezz, @dcamron, @C2oWisComing, @jthielen, @github-actions[bot], @lswenson, @kgoebber, @23ccozad, @sgdecker, @ShunsukeHoshino, @jrleeman, @albernsrya, @lbunting, @dlaw, @akrherz, @mabaxter, @michaelavs, @nawendt, @eliteuser26 contributed code to this release.

Issues Closed

• Issue 2005 - calc.moist_lapse returns incorrect values for Fahrenheit
• Issue 1999 - Showalter Index calculation difference from value in Wyoming upperair website
• Issue 1981 - Nightly build is failing
• Issue 1970 - Fix unit-handling in azimuth_range_to_lat_lon
• Issue 1951 - METAR parser not handling 'FU' code
• Issue 1948 - Error in absolute_momentum (bug in normal_component?)
• Issue 1945 - Plotting geoJSON and shapefiles
• Issue 1938 - get_layer heights unit issue
• Issue 1916 - Nightly build is failing
• Issue 1901 - Level3File import is a bit bloated
• Issue 1881 - Getting started information missing
• Issue 1839 - Sync dependencies in setup.cfg
• Issue 1805 - Ability to change fontsize in declarative interface
• Issue 1791 - Support pyproj 3
• Issue 1775 - reduce_point_density and bad points
• Issue 1719 - copy() method for declarative interface
• Issue 1674 - Refactor mean_pressure_weighted
• Issue 1549 - Bounds issue with precipitable water
• Issue 1546 - Drop Python 3.6
• Issue 1306 - Visibility and Remarks in metar decoder not available in Pandas dataframe
• Issue 1288 - Declarative extent zooming in/out
• Issue 1278 - Declarative Plotting Tab Completion
• Issue 968 - Set module on exported functions, etc.
• Issue 630 - Add Showalter and Modified Showalter Index

24 issues were closed in this release.

Pull Requests Merged

• PR 2009 - Clean up some lint in the GEMPAK reader, by @dopplershift
• PR 2008 - Fix passing degF values to some thermo calculations, by @dopplershift
• PR 2007 - Fix up Showalter Index calculation, by @dopplershift
• PR 2006 - ENH: Ignore bad points in reduce_point_density, by @dopplershift
• PR 2004 - Add check_units to geopotential_to_height, by @dcamron
• PR 1991 - Create initial CITATION.cff, by @dcamron
• PR 1989 - DOC: Fix some equations, by @dopplershift
• PR 1986 - Specify coords as dict rather than tuple of tuples in tests, by @jthielen
• PR 1978 - Added equation to relative_humidity_from_dewpoint, by @lswenson
• PR 1977 - Add unit-awareness to azimuth_range_to_lat_lon function, by @kgoebber
• PR 1973 - Plotting Shapely objects in declarative interface, by @23ccozad
• PR 1967 - Check that pressure decreases monotonically in parcel calculations, by @sgdecker
• PR 1956 - Absolute momentum units bug fix, by @23ccozad
• PR 1953 - Large refactoring and improvement to METAR parser, by @dopplershift
• PR 1947 - Set up isort, by @dopplershift
• PR 1943 - Units bug fix for _get_bound_pressure_height, by @23ccozad
• PR 1942 - Hodograph fixes, by @dopplershift
• PR 1939 - Codespell, by @dopplershift
• PR 1937 - Cleaning up analysis warnings, by @dopplershift
• PR 1934 - Code scanning, by @dopplershift
• PR 1932 - Update test_declarative.py, by @albernsrya
• PR 1931 - Update xarray git install for nightly build, by @dopplershift
• PR 1928 - Improve some import handling, by @dopplershift
• PR 1926 - More descriptive errors for precipitable_water, by @23ccozad
• PR 1925 - Improve nightly build logs, by @dopplershift
• PR 1924 - Refactor dimensionality comparisons to check(), by @23ccozad
• PR 1921 - Remove any Pint objects from METAR parser output, by @23ccozad
• PR 1920 - Interpret inverse_flattening = 0 as spherical datum in mapping.py, by @lbunting
• PR 1914 - Refactor mean_pressure_weighted(), by @23ccozad
• PR 1913 - CI: Add flake8-continuation to our plugin suite, by @dopplershift
• PR 1908 - Improved formatting of notes section of METAR parser, by @23ccozad
• PR 1907 - Region modifiers with '+' or '-' suffix, by @23ccozad
• PR 1903 - Clean up declarative dir and tab-completion, by @dcamron
• PR 1899 - Add font size traits to various classes, by @23ccozad
• PR 1896 - Drop our explicit pillow dependency for sphinx-gallery, by @dcamron
• PR 1885 - Minor simplifications for the IO code, by @dopplershift
• PR 1884 - Copy method for declarative interface, by @23ccozad
• PR 1882 - Clarify environment installation steps in CONTRIBUTING, by @dcamron
• PR 1879 - Reorganization of declarative syntax, by @kgoebber
• PR 1876 - fixes bug in issue 1758, by @kgoebber
• PR 1869 - BUG: Fix unit-handling in heat_index (Fixes Nightly build is failing #1867), by @dopplershift
• PR 1866 - Fix assign milestone action, by @dopplershift
• PR 1861 - Bump minimum dependency NumPy to >=1.17, by @dcamron
• PR 1842 - Reduce duplication in minimum dependencies, by @dopplershift
• PR 1841 - Drop support for Python 3.6, by @dopplershift
• PR 1840 - lazy load station_info only when used MetPy's usage of POOCH is frustrating #1320, by @akrherz
• PR 1673 - Adding Showalter Index to Thermo Functions, by @michaelavs
• PR 1656 - Add GEMPAK IO module, by @nawendt
• PR 985 - Set module for exported functions., by @dopplershift

49 pull requests were closed in this release.

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