tobac v1.5.3 released

[William Jones]

Dear tobac users,

We are pleased to announce the release of tobac v1.5.3, which is now available on conda-forge.

This is a minor release, focusing on the enhancement of existing functions, bug fixes and updates to the documentation. As part of this update, we now have an example gallery of Jupyter notebooks on the documentation page. In addition, conversion to and from xarray should work without issue across more of the code.

We have one further minor release planned for 1.5, which will focus on enhancements to the merge/split and periodic boundary functionalities. Beyond that, the 1.6 update will focus on a full switch to using xarray within tobac which will make future development easier and faster. This will be a non-breaking change, so any workflows using iris should continue to work without issue.

Changelog

Enhancements for Users

• Update calculate_area to allow the calculation of the projected 2D area of 3D objects, and enhance bulk statistics to allow calculation of statistics on the projected footprint on 2D fields #378

Bug fixes

• Fix a bug in get_spacing that would return a negative value if one coordinate was in ascending order and the other in descending order, and fix other bugs where the wrong coordinate was referenced #400

Documentation

• Re-integration of notebooks from the tobac-tutorials repo #334
• Add example gallery to readthedocs page #411

Internal Enhancements

• Add ability to save whether iris to xarray conversion occurred and update decorators to allow keyword parameters #380
• Reorganisation of analysis tools into analysis package #378

All changes: v1.5.2...v1.5.3

Full Changelog: https://github.com/tobac-project/tobac/blob/37ddd51b00dca8c8f62d89e848eb615ae025ba27/CHANGELOG.md

Thanks,

The tobac dev team