0.8.0

Version 0.8 (2018/08/14)

Highlights

• Added client for National Data Buoy Center text data
• Added session_manager.set_session_options to set options for Siphon-created HTTP sessions. This allows setting basic HTTP authentication.
• Support downloading data for stations without an ICAO for Wyoming archive
• Support downloading data for all stations from IEM upper air archive
• Support opening using XArray in TDSCatalog.remote_access()
• Bug fixes for IGRA2

Contributors

@DanielWatkins, @haileyajohnson, @jthielen, @swnesbitt, @lesserwhirls, @jrleeman, and @dopplershift contributed code to this release.

Issues Closed

• Issue 238 - Accessing Wyoming Soundings no ICAO Station ID (PR 239)
• Issue 229 - Add xarray option for remote_access()
• Issue 226 - IGRA-2 - bug in flagging missing dewpoint values
• Issue 224 - Add default filename for download
• Issue 222 - Better Server Error Handling (PR 242)
• Issue 221 - Calucated relative humidity overestimating by a tens in IGRA derived
• Issue 215 - Suport netCDFServer name
• Issue 204 - IGRA2 Cassette Missing
• Issue 117 - Basic authentication (PR 242)

In this release 9 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

• PR 243 - ENH: Add the option to return xarray from catalog helpers (Fixes #229)
• PR 242 - HTTP Client updates (222, 117)
• PR 241 - Add NDBC simple web service
• PR 239 - Add capability to deal with stations with no identifier from Wyoming (238)
• PR 235 - ENH: Make IGRA2 tests run offline (Fixes #204)
• PR 234 - Implement all-station IEM Upper Air request
• PR 231 - Maintenance
• PR 227 - Fix for IGRA dewpoint calculation
• PR 223 - Fix error in IGRA2-derived relative humidity columns
• PR 220 - Doc updates
• PR 219 - corrected bug where na_values were bypassed

In this release 11 pull requests were closed.