v0.5.0

v0.5.0 (27 March 2023)

This long-awaited minor release includes feature updates to support an optional user-specified climatology reference period when calculating climatologies and departures, support for opening datasets using the directory key of the legacy CDAT Climate Data Markup Language (CDML) format (an XML dialect), and improved support for using custom time coordinates in temporal APIs.

This release also includes a bug fix for singleton coordinates breaking the swap_lon_axis() function. Additionally, Jupyter Notebooks for
presentations and demos have been added to the documentation.

Features

• Update departures and climatology APIs with reference period by @tomvothecoder in #417
• Wrap open_dataset and open_mfdataset to flexibly open datasets by @pochedls in #385
• Add better support for using custom time coordinates in temporal APIs by @tomvothecoder in #415

Bug Fixes

• [Doc]: Fix missing xesmf APIs and update slides in intro notebook by @tomvothecoder in #428
• Raise warning if no time coords found with decode_times by @tomvothecoder in #409
• Bump conda env dependencies by @tomvothecoder in #408
• Fix swap_lon_axis() breaking when sorting with singleton coords by @tomvothecoder in #392

Documentation

• Bump to v0.5.0 by @tomvothecoder in #436
• Update xsearch-xcdat-example.ipynb by @pochedls in #425
• Updates xesmf docs by @jasonb5 in #432
• [Doc]: Fix missing xesmf APIs and update slides in intro notebook by @tomvothecoder in #428
• Add presentations and demos to sphinx toctree by @tomvothecoder in #422
• [Doc]: Add xsearch demo notebook for CWSS Presentation by @tomvothecoder in #398
• Update temporal .average and .departures docstrings by @tomvothecoder in #407

DevOps

• Bump conda env dependencies by @tomvothecoder in #408

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...0.5.0