SounderPy 2.0.5

ANNOUNCING SOUNDERPY VERSION 2.0.5!

SounderPy v2.0.5 will feature a number of new tools, improvements to existing functionality, and a few bug fixes from v2.0.4.

LATEST VERSION: v2.0.5 | RELEASED: September 29, 2023 | COPYRIGHT Kyle J Gillett, 2023

VISIT SOUNDERPY DOCUMENTATION HERE

CHANGELOG:

New Features

• Access to Aircraft Communications, Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) vertical profile data with acars_data()
  • Listing recent profiles for a given date and time: acars_data(year, month, day, hour).list_profiles()
  • Getting a profile after using .list_profiles: acars_data(year, month, day, hour).get_profile(profile)
• NCEP FNL 0.25deg Gridded Reanalysis Dataset using the get_model_data() function by setting the method kwarg to 'ncep'.
• Ability to output SounderPy data to a SHARPPY input file.

Changed

• Finding station lat-lon data is now condensed into a single function: get_latlon(station_type, station_id) where station_type can be buoy, raob, igra, metar, or bufkit.
  • This change depreciates the following functions: buoy_latlon(), metar_latlon(), raob_latlon(), igra_latlon(), metar_latlon() and bufkit_latlon().
• Outputting data to a file is now condensed into a single function: to_file(file_type, filename), where file_type can be csv, cm1, or sharppy.
  • This change depreciates the following functions: to_csv() and to_cm1.
• MetPy sounding and hodograph plots are now more advanced.

Fixed

• Improved Docs
• Corrected Bufkit data output lat-lon data

EXAMPLE PLOTS:

SounderPy 2.0.4

Release number 2 of SounderPy!

• NOTE: this version of SounderPy is 2.0.4

New Features

• IGRAv2 Archive Access via get_obs_data() -- just specify an IRGA station ID for the kwarg station!
• Most-recent RAP analysis data access via get_model_data() -- specify the method kwarg as 'rap-now'
• Most-recent & archive BUFKIT data access via get_bufkit_data() -- GFS, NAM, NAMNEST, RAP, HRRR, SREF, & HIRESW data
• Ability to find a lat/lon pair of a US buoy/CMAN site -- buoy_latlon('site-id')
• Ability to find a lot/lon pair for a IGRA site -- igra_latlon('site-id')
• Ability to save plots to a file -- metpy_sounding(clean_data, 'save')
• Ability to save parsed data as a csv -- to_csv(clean_data)
• Ability to save parsed data to CM1 input file -- to_cm1(clean_data)
• Ability to plot profile data on a MetPy Hodograph! metpy_hodograph(clean_data, 'show')
• GitHub Wiki Documentation

Changed

• metpy_sounding() function now offers two rendering options, a user can specify kwarg method as 'show' to display the plot inline, or as 'save' to save the plot as a .png image. If 'save' is chosen, the kwarg filename can be set to a user-specified file location and name.
  • Example: metpy_sounding(clean_data, 'save', '/your-file-path/your-file-name')
• all clean_data dicts now include the key site-info which include site information, model/data information and time information.

Fixed

• Improved Docs
• Made minor corrections to get_docs() function
• Added CHANGLOG.md
• fixed requirements.txt, thus allowing dependencies to automatically load upon installing SounderPy

SounderPy 1.0.0

SounderPy is finally here!

Start using this package by using pip install sounderpy.

Check out the documentation at: https://github.com/kylejgillett/sounderpy/blob/main/DOCUMENTATION.md

Full Changelog: https://github.com/kylejgillett/sounderpy/commits/v1.0.0