Changelog

v1.9.0

Improvements

• modification to odim reader writer to flip coordinates instead of data

Bug fixes

• coerce bool to int in cfradial writer

v1.8.9

Improvements

• improvement in dealias_spectra to give priority to neg velocities

• updated output_to_geotiff.py to match ARM-DOE

• various improvemnets to odim reader/writer to make it consistent on read/write + unit test

v1.8.8

Bug fixes:

• added metranet lib download in gh actions

• added bytes-info when reading with metranet c-reader

New additions

• add unit tests for metranet readers + possibility to read KE from cfg file

v1.8.7

Bug fixes:

• fixed python metranet reader to handle use of more than one byte in encoding

• accept ‘c’ argument instead of ‘C’ for metranet reader

• fixed typo in odim_h5_writer for sw_version

• fix bug in dealias_spectra that led to only the first timestep being processed

• Fixed issue in dealias_spectra with wrong output dtype

• fix deprecation warning for scipy cumtrapz

New additions

• add info on celsius for temp field in hydro class

• added reader for Meteoswiss VAD products

• [add gecsx fields to default_config.py](https://github.com/MeteoSwiss/pyart/commit/57664ce7b27c27af03f631fcd0e92a2

v1.8.6

Bug fixes:

• fixed argument warning in np.linalg.lstsq in wind.py

• fix matplotlib deprecation warning in pyart/config.py

• fixed error in bias_and_noise.py in case of missing radar.instrument_parameters

• fixed error in attenuation.py in case of missing radar.instrument_parameters

v1.8.5

Bug fixes:

• fixes in gecsx for irregular azimuth angles in vol scan

• correct reorder of data in odim

• fix bug in time reading of metranet file

• bug corrections in skyecho.py. Added function extract_sweeps_skyecho in skyecho.py

New additions

• added file pyart/aux_io/knmi_h5.py with a reader of the KNMI H5 gridded radar data

• added reader for SkyEcho proprietary netcdf data

• add reader for SwissBirdRadar spectral data

• add dealias routine for Doppler spectrum

v1.8.4

Bug fixes:

• fix in odim h5 reader and writer

• correct reorder of data in odim

New additions

• added windshear processing for lidar data

• changed latlon plots to cross_section in GridMapDisplay, to be consistent with Py-ART ARM

v1.8.3

Bug fixes:

• fix in _rsl_interface.pyx for Cython 3.0

New additions:

• added support for older python versions in pyart/testing

v1.8.2

Bug fixes:

• update of metranet read_product code for new cartesian format

• fixes for change in cython 3.0 behaviour

• Various deprecation fixes (matplotlib, numpy)

New additions

• added conv_strat_yuter function from ARM Py-ART

• Merge pull request https://github.com/MeteoSwiss/pyart/pull/21 from juhi24/dataset-patch

v1.8.1

Bug fixes:

• fix in radar_utils, replaced latitude by altitude as it was duplicated

• fix for deprecated matplotlib register_cmap

• fix of a bug in gecsx that lead to always using raster oversampling

• fix scipy deprecation warning in ml.py

New additions

• added option coerce_angles in join_radars to account for antenna misposition

v1.8

Bug fixes:

• improvement in colobar label of pyart/graph/gridmapdisplay.py

• added _label_axes_latlon in class GridMapDisplay. Minor changes to improve grid plots

• update rad4alp_gif_reader.py for new imageio version

• Fix in gecsx oversampling, nrows and ncols were flipped

New additions:

• improvements to vad.py, option for sign + multi-sweep Browning VAD

• changed rad4alp gif lookup to make it agree with one of CPC

v1.7.1

Bug fixes:

• bug correction when masking undetect and nodata in odim_h5 reader

v1.7

New additions:

• New plot function: plot_xsection in RadarDisplay which can be used to display a cross-section of polar data between arbitrary coordinates

v1.6.4

New additions

New additions:

• Support for new RainForest ODIM variable name

v1.6.3

Bug fixes:

• bug correction in compute_refl_time_avg in vpr.py: it was crashing when the elevation to average was not in the current scan

• bug correction in vpr.py compute_refl_time_avg we set the radar_ou.time[‘data’] to np.zeros(nrays) to account for elevations to average not in the current radar

New additions:

• VPR retrieval: better care of special case when melting layer peak has a value of 1

• support for multi field Grid in odim h5 grid writer

• change of datatype for time from float32 to float in read_odim_h5

• better support of OPERA guidelines in odim writer and reader

• Added possibility to specify ODIM convention in ODIM writers

v1.6.2

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue that was prohibiting ODIM grid files written by pyart to be read by pyart again

v1.6.1

Bug fixes

• fixed a bug in write_odim_grid that was using a time format different from the other pyart readers/writers

v1.6

Bug fixes:

• adaptation of the Cython codes of the RSL interface and 4DD to make them run with setuptools

• rounding of the angles to a precision of 6 digits in the interpol_field code so we avoid floating point issues in the interpolation range (leads to northernmost ray being empty in some cases)

New additions:

• new functions to accumulated gridded data and get data at multiple points in a grid

• addition of a new spatialized VPR function