Release of pyart and pyrad v.1.6.2 (mch version)

[wolfidan]

Dear all,
We are happy to announce the release of versions 1.6.2 of the conda and pip packages pyrad_mch, pyart_mch and pyrad_arm.

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pyrad

Bug fixes:

• changed the number of colors from cmap.N to len(boundaries) – 1 in get_cmap to avoid colorbar issues with discrete colorbars
• fixed a bug that made it impossible to use any other method than main in flow_control.py
• set xlim and ylim of grid surface plots to the min/max of user defined lat/lon (this step was missing since the last release)
• correction of a bug that did not allow import of pyrad when the metranet library was mssing

New additions:

• change in function process_point_measurement: When Truealt is false input keyword alt is not required and the output alt will be determined by the elevation angle
• added new user-defined parameters in VPR correction scheme
• modifications to allow to read multiple ODIM files containing parameters and scan
• changed keyword add_lines to add_grid_lines to be consistent with Py-ART
• new functions to accumulate gridded data and get data at multiple points in a grid
• added ODIMGRID keyword to be able to ingest gridded data from ODIM files
• added keyword MasterScanTimeTol that allows to combine ODIM files from different scans not having the same nominal time in file name
• added the possibility to create Cartesian ODIM outputs with the ODIMPYRADGRID keyword

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pyart

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

New additions:

• new functions to accumulated gridded data and get data at multiple points in a grid
• addition of a new spatialized VPR function