Changelog#

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

v1.2.0#

Added#

  • Modify huracanpy.load to load TRACK files with timesteps instead of dates (e.g. track_calendar=("1940-01-01", 6) to specify start time and timestep length in hours)

  • Add “Old HURDAT”/ECMWF track data reader

  • Add function to compute azimuth

  • Allow huracanpy.sel_id to be used to select multiple track IDs

Changed#

  • Update python versions supported (python 3.9-3.13, changed from 3.8-3.12)

v1.1.0#

Added#

  • Support for WiTRACK text files in huracanpy.load

  • Beta-drift computation (along with RMW support within distance function)

  • Full documentation incuding new examples

  • kde option for densities

  • Reference track set option for matching

  • Basin definitions from E. Sainsbury’s papers

Fixes#

  • Accessor was not behaving in the right way when the object was modified after the accessor’s first call;

  • Allow for ISO time to be called “isotime” in csv/parquet

v1.0.0#

Added#

  • xarray Dataset accessor (hrcn)

  • Extra keyword arguments to huracanpy.load

    • rename

    • units

    • baselon

  • sel_id function to select a single track by track_id from a Dataset but faster than using groupby

Changed#

  • Simplified module namespaces

    • utils.{module}.{function} -> info.{function}

    • diags.{module}.{function} -> calc.{function} or tc.{function}

    • subset.trackswhere -> trackswhere

  • Simplified function naming

    • plot_ prefix removed functions in plot module

  • Modified arguments to load

    • keyword tracker renamed source to reflect not all tracks are from trackers, e.g. IBTrACS or statistical-dynamical downscaling models

    • Use ibtracs_subset to determine whether the subset is online or not, removing ibtracs_online keyword

    • When filename is specified for an online IBTrACS dataset, save the downloaded data to that file, rather than using ibtracs_clean=False and a default filename

  • Use a single matching function assess.match for 2 or more datasets instead of assess.match_pair and assess.match_multiple

  • Remove get_ from functions in info. Instead this syntax is used to differentiate get_ and add_ functions in the hrcn accessor

  • Split info.get_land_or_ocean into is_land and is_ocean

  • Renamed tc.sshs_cat to tc.saffir_simpson_category and tc.pres_cat to tc.pressure_category

  • Improved support for calculations with units (using metpy style functions)

  • Updated IBTrACS data

Removed#

  • add_info argument from huracanpy.load

  • add_all_info function. Instead use add_ functions on hrcn accessor

  • get_time. Functionality already covered by pandas.to_datetime

Fixed#

  • huracanpy.info.season now works with cftime.datetime