v0.8

Main changes:

1. Support for Python 3.12
2. Update in the catalog for Levante and introduction of Leonardo
3. Multiple diagnostics improvement to fulfill D340.7.3.3 and D340.7.1.4

AQUA core complete list:

• LRA for ICON avg_sos and avg_tos (#1076)
• LRA for IFS-NEMO, IFS-FESOM, ICON added to Levante catalog (#1072)
• IFS-FESOM storyline +2K added to the Lumi catalog (#1059)
• Allowing for jinja-based replacemente in load_yaml (#1045)
• Support for Python 3.12 (#1052)
• Extending pytests (#1053)
• More efficient use of _retrieve_plain for acessing sample data (#1048)
• Introducing the catalogue structure for Leonardo HPC (#1049)
• Introducing an rsync script between LUMI and levante for grids (#1044)
• Introducing a basic jinja-based catalog entry generator (#853)
• Adapt NextGEMS sources and fixes to the final DestinE governance (#1008, #1035)
• Remove NextGEMS cycle2 sources (#1008)

AQUA diagnostics complete list:

• Teleconnections: refactor of the documentation (#1061)
• Tropical rainfall: Updating the Documentation and Notebooks (#1083)
• Performance indices: minor improvements with the inclusion of mask and area files (#1076)
• Timeseries: Seasonal Cycle and Gregory plots save netcdf files (#1079)
• Tropical rainfall: minor modifications to the CLI and fixes to changes in the wrapper introduced in PR #1063 (#1074)
• Tropical rainfall: adding daily variability and precipitation profiles to the cli (#1063)
• Teleconnections: bootstrap evaluation of concordance with reference dataset (#1026)
• SSH: Improvement of the CLI (#1024)
• Tropical rainfall: adding metadata and comparison with era5 and imerg to the plots, re-binning of the histograms and buffering of the data (#1014)
• Timeseries: refactor of the documentation (#1031)
• Radiation: boxplot can accomodate custom variables (#933)
• Seaice: convert to module, add Extent maps (#803)
• Seaice: Implement seaice Volume timeseries and thickness maps (#1043)