1.7.0

Highlights

• New analytic LCL calculation based on Romps (2017)
• New saturation vapor pressure calculations, relative to both ice and liquid, using Ambaum (2020)
• Moisture/temperature dependent gas constants and latent heat calculations
• New clients for accessing remote S3 archives for NEXRAD Level 2 & 3, GOES, and ML Weather Prediction (from CIRA)
• Support for plotting WPC surface analyses in the simplified plotting interface
• Shear and curvature vorticity calculations
• Stüve and Emagram plots
• Automatic identification of high/low locations
• Better support for plotting highs/lows using scattertext

What's Changed

New Features 🎉

• New PlotSurfaceAnalysis class to plot WPC surface analysis bulletins by @anacmontoya in #3580
• Moisture/temperature dependent gas constants & latent heat by @dcamron in #3725
• ENH: Add shear and curvature vorticity calculations by @Z-Richard in #3361
• AWS Data Clients by @dopplershift in #3000
• Add Stüve, Emagram plots by @cdholmes in #3626
• Find peaks by @dopplershift in #3729

Enhancements 😄

• Python 3.13 Support by @dopplershift in #3682
• Prevent frontogenesis from returning nans by @sgdecker in #3696
• Avoid returning negative saturation mixing ratios by @dopplershift in #3758
• Romps 2017 Analytic LCL by @dcamron in #3728

Bugs Fixed 🐛

• fix wrong input to function by @kgoebber in #3613
• Fix xarray support with decode_coords='all' by @dopplershift in #3664
• Use parcel prof for parcel mix ratio by @ahijevyc in #3751
• Fix q_vector units w/ default static stability by @dopplershift in #3690
• BUG: Fix turbulence kinetic energy calculation (Fixes #3756) by @lesserwhirls in #3757
• Fix sounding merge bug by @nawendt in #3793
• 🐛🔨 on zero-size array to reduction operation in lfc when there is no el by @leaver2000 in #3796

Other Changes

• Fix MAG entry in GEMPAK Guide by @sgdecker in #3699
• Documentation theme updates by @dopplershift in #3670
• Fix links by @dopplershift in #3611
• Update redirecting link by @dopplershift in #3615
• Update NSF Unidata logo by @dopplershift in #3650
• MNT: Replace cKDTree with KDTree. by @DWesl in #3659
• add more information about the laplacian function by @ahmedshaaban1 in #3744
• Update IAU ref to open link by @dcamron in #3787
• Redirect python-gallery to cookbook by @dcamron in #3789
• Ambaum 2020 saturation vapor pressure + phase handling by @dcamron in #3726

New Contributors

• @DWesl made their first contribution in #3659
• @cdholmes made their first contribution in #3626
• @ahmedshaaban1 made their first contribution in #3744
• @leaver2000 made their first contribution in #3796

Full Changelog: v1.6.3...v1.7.0