pyDARN v2.2 released

Oct 27, 2021

A new minor release of pyDARN has just been published!

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You can install/upgrade pydarn via pip (python library installer):

  • pip3 install pydarn
  • pip3 install --upgrade pydarn

Or you can download the package from Zenodo.

The documentation for pyDARN has also been updated including tutorials for the new features: https://pydarn.readthedocs.io/en/main/index.html

Version 2.2 - Release!

New Requirement: pyDARN 2.2 requires minimum matplotlib version of 3.3.4

pyDARN release v2.2 includes the following features:

  • New Radar geographical Field-of-View (FOV) calculations functionality
  • Deprecation Removed FOV files for radars geographic beam location
  • New pytesting environment for testing pydarn for development
  • New FOV grid lines to show range gates
  • New channel option in Fan plots
  • Bug fix in Range-time plots with groundscatter
  • Bug fix in Range-time plots with time-shifting

Deprecation: slant option in plot_range-time and plot_summary is deprecated now uses coords

Thank you to all the pyDARN developers!