pysteps 0.2
Change log since the previous release:
- Bug fixes.
- Performance and syntax improvements.
- Improve documentation to several modules and methods.
- Add the Variational Echo Tracking (VET) method from MAPLE to the motion module.
- Replace the config module with a JSON pystepsrc configuration file.
- More efficient computation of the FFT in the cascade decomposition and noise generation by using the real FFT instead of the complex FFT, i.e. rfft2/irfft2 instead of fft2/ifft2.
- More sensible naming of several main modules: optflow -> motion, advection -> extrapolation and postproc -> postprocessing.
- New utility methods to clip the domain by geographical coordinates.
- New data transformation methods: normal quantile, square-root and logarithmic transformations.
- New importer for MeteoSwiss' metranet data format.
- New "shift and scale" post-processing method.
- Implement the S-PROG method with probability matching.
- New intensity-scale verification method.
- New visualization methods: cartopy backend, exceedance probabilities and plotting motion fields on a map.
- Support for Swiss projection when using cartopy.
- New interface module for different FFT methods and allow the user to choose the method.
- Fix incorrect separation into components when using the bps method for adding perturbations to the advection field.
- Two different methods for adjusting the temporal autocorrelation coefficients in order to guarantee stationarity of the resulting AR(2) models.
- Modify the STEPS method to have the same number of positional arguments as the other methods in the nowcasts module and reorganize the keyword arguments.
- Move the deterministic S-PROG mask computation outside the stochastic part of the STEPS method to avoid repeated computations.