Siphon 0.7.0 released

Siphon 0.7.0 has been released with a variety of new features and some bug fixes:

  • Changed license from MIT to BSD 3-clause (to match MetPy and other Unidata projects)
  • Added client for downloading data from the Applied Climate Information System (ACIS) (thanks to Warren Pettee)
  • Added client for downloading upper air data from Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA) Version 2 (thanks to Daniel Watkins)
  • Added client for accessing upper air data from the Iowa Environment Mesonet (IEM)
  • Improved metadata available in upper air data
  • Fixed a variety of minor bugs in catalog parsing

Contributors

@DanielWatkins, @pjpokran, @WEP11, @lesserwhirls, @jrleeman, and @dopplershift contributed code to this release.

For full release notes see the GitHub Release Page.

Siphon packages are available for Conda on the conda-forge channel and for pip from the Python Package Index.

Let us know if you run into any problems, either at siphon issue tracker, using support-python@unidata.ucar.edu, or on the python-users list. You can also ask questions using the "python-siphon" tag on Stack Overflow.

Posted by: rmay
Apr 4, 2018

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