MetPy 0.9.1 has been released. New features of the 0.9 series include:
- Renamed
get_wind_speedtowind_speed; the old name is still available but is deprecated and will be removed in 0.12 - Renamed
get_wind_dirtowind_direction; the old name is still available but is deprecated and will be removed in 0.12 - Renamed
get_wind_componentstowind_components; the old name is still available but is deprecated and will be removed in 0.12 - Added support for cross-sections along arbitrary lat/lon paths
- Added
parcel_profile_with_lclto compute the parcel profile and return values for the parcel profile, as well as the ambient pressure, temperature, and dew point that includes the lcl - Fixed corner case problems in some thermodynamic calculations by using parcel profiles including the LCL
- Added function to get a matplotlib color from a GEMPAK color number
- Added CartoPy map feature for U.S. counties
get_test_datawill now automatically download and cache data files if the user is not running a git checkout of MetPy. This makes all of our test/example data much more easily available.- Added
smooth_gaussian, which smooths a grid using a Gaussian distribution-shaped kernel; this is an analog of GEMPAK'sgwfs - Fixed error reading newer NEXRAD Level 2 files
Contributors
@akrherz, @JoyMonteiro, @jthielen, @leouieda, @sgdecker, @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.
