MetPy 0.10.0 Released

MetPy 0.10.0 has been released:

• potential_vorticity_baroclinic was changed to take all 3D variables, with dimensions ordered: vertical, y, x.
• MetPy has gained a simplified plotting interface designed to mimic that of GEMPAK. It uses a handful of objects on which users set attributes to values to control the plot, requiring data in an xarray DataArray or Dataset. See MetPy's plotting examples for more information.
• MetPy's xarray accessor now has its own versions of loc and sel that accept unit-ed values.
• Added an n-point soothing function
• moist_lapse and dry_lapse now accept an arbitrary starting (reference) pressure value.
• potential_vorticity_baroclinic now works with data either on isobaric or isentropic surfaces.
• MetPy now has state borders that match the boundaries of the county borders.
• SkewT instances can now be created at an arbitrary rectangular location within a figure.
• MetPy's calculations have been adjusted so that the values of constants can be overridden by changing the values in the constants module.

Contributors

@akrherz, @JoyMonteiro, @jthielen, @kgoebber, @mendezr, @tsupinie, @vardan10, @jrleeman, and @dopplershift contributed code to this release.

For full release notes see the GitHub Release Page.

MetPy 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 MetPy issue tracker, using support-python@unidata.ucar.edu, or on the python-users list. You can also ask questions using the "MetPy" tag on Stack Overflow.