MetPy 1.4.0 Released

MetPy v1.4.0 has been released:

• Fully projection/spherical-aware spatial derivative calculations (e.g. vorticity, divergence)
• Added calculations for SWEAT index, Convective Condensation Level (CCL), and convective temperature
• ArrowPlot and RasterPlot added to the simplified plotting interface, as well as other enhancements to the simplified plotting interface
• Many more examples in docstrings and example gallery
• Improve integration with other libraries that use Pint for unit-handling
• Converted GINI support to work as a proper xarray backend

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.

They can be installed with:

pip install metpy==v1.4.0

conda install -c conda-forge metpy=v1.4.0

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