Version 5.23 Updates

Version 5.23.1

• Externally released on 2024-11-23

• Installed as part of ecmwf-toolbox/2024.11.0.0 (Atos HPC)

• At ECMWF:

  • Installed 2024-11-21

  • Built with Magics 4.15.5

  • Built with ecCodes 2.39.0

  • Built with ODC version 1.5.2

Fixes

• Fixed excessive memory usage when loading large geopointset files

• Fixed issue where the base_date() function could fail to extract the time from a GRIB message

Version 5.23.0

• Externally released on 2024-10-02

• Installed as part of ecmwf-toolbox/2024.09.0.0 (Atos HPC)

• At ECMWF:

  • Installed 2024-09-23

  • Built with Magics 4.15.4

  • Built with ecCodes 2.38.0

  • Built with ODC version 1.5.2

Vertical interpolation

• ml_to_hl() now interprets target heights as geometric height. Previously, geopotential height was used internally in the computations.

• Added the pl_to_hl() function to interpolate pressure levels to height levels. See the new gallery example GRIB - Pressure to height level interpolation:

  

• Added the geometric_height_from_geopotential() function to compute geometric height from geopotential height. See the new gallery example Cross Section in Height for Pressure Level Data with Orography:

  

• Added the geopotential_from_geometric_height() function to compute geopotential from geometric height.

Display Window

• Added option to export the Display Window contents as an SVG when it contains any weather feature objects.

Fixes

• Fixed issue when dropping a second icon into the plot window caused a crash

• Fixed issue when the tree view in the BUFR Examiner was not generated when the underlying dump process wrote anything to stderr

• Fixed issue when the vertical_coordinate_param option in the Cross section did not work for fields containing string values for the “mars.param” ecCodes key

• Fixed issue when thermo_parcel_path() did not work with array(Python)/vector(Macro) input data