MetPy version 0.4.1 has been released. This fixes a few minor issues in the 0.4 release made in advance of Unidata's annual Python Training Workshop. Highlights of features added in the 0.4 release:
- New calculations: Saturation mixing ratio, Equivalent potential temperature, Coriolis parameter, and Level of free convection (LFC)
- Provisional support for objective analysis/regridding (Barnes, Cressman, Nearest Neighbor, Natural Neighbor, and Radial Basis Function Interpolation)
- Support for downloading upper air data from Wyoming and Iowa State archives
MetPy packages are available for Conda on the conda-forge channel, and for pip from the Python Package Index.
MetPy is an open source toolkit for using Python in meteorology. It includes meteorology-specific support for reading files, performing calculations, and making plots. For more information, see MetPy's online documentation. MetPy's source code is also now hosted under Unidata's GitHub organization.
Great news. I believe this tool has been much upgraded and will be of help for more accurate meteorological prognoses.
Posted by Jason Evans on November 09, 2016 at 01:34 AM MST #