Version 5.18 Updates

Version 5.18.0

• Externally released on 2023-01-26

• Installed as part of ecmwf-toolbox/2023.01.0.0 (Atos HPC)

• At ECMWF:

  • Installed 2023-01-26

  • Built with Magics 4.13.0

  • Built with ecCodes 2.28.0

  • Built with ODC version 1.4.6

Hovmoller

• Area and Vertical Hovmoeller: added new parameter area_statistics to define the computation performed in the area. See :mhovmoeller_area(), mhovmoeller_vertical() and mhovmoellerview() See the gallery example:

  

• fixed issue when dropping a matching Hovmoeller Data icon into a mhovmoellerview() window an empty plot was produced

• fixed issue when plotting a Hovmoeller Data object into a non-matching mhovmoellerview() in a script resulted in a crash. Now an error message is generated.

• fixed issue when mhovmoeller_vertical() randomly crashed

Plotting

• streamlines: fixed issue when the arrowhead direction on the streamlines was inconsistent

Python/Macro

• new function grib_set_long_array()

• fixed issue when sort() called form Macro unnecessarily repacked the messages in the resulting Fieldset

• fixed issue when using float() repacked the input GRIB messages

• fixed issue when interpolate() gave wrong results for longitudes in the [-180,0) range for GRIB2 data on reduced Gaussian grids on a sub-area

• fixed issue when obsfilter() crashed with a zero sized input file

User interface

• added Python code preview mode for icon editors:

  

• added syntax highlighting to text edit mode for icon editors:

  

• added button to access online documentation for icon editors:

  

• issues warning when the value of a list parameter contains a comma in the icon editor. While the list separator is a comma in script (Python or Macro), it is ‘/’ in the user interface. So if a comma appears in a list it was most probably put there by mistake.

  

• eccharts(): added new layer called “tcw” (Total Column Water)

• mcont(): add style “sh_tcw_f5t100” to the predefined list of styles for parameter contour_style_name

• added the Properties context menu action to icons. It brings up a dialog showing the file properties and offering an editor for symbolic links.

• gzip and bzip2 files are now represented by an icon in the user interface. The supported context menu actions: “Compress”, “Extract here” and “Extract to subfolder”

• added the “Extract here” and “Extract to subfolder” actions to all the supported archive formats (tar, tgz, tbz, tz, zip)

• fixed issue when the “examine” command did not work on archive (tar, tgz, tbz, zip) icons on macOS

• fixed issue when a broken link to a folder could be opened/entered

• fixed issue when double clicking on a Desktop icon caused a crash

• GRIB Examiner: fixed issue when used too much memory for large GRIB fields in the Values tab. With this change data is only loaded into the Values tab when there are no more than 7 million values in the GRIB field. Otherwise a warning message is displayed:

  

• GRIB Examiner: improved speed and memory usage when loading data for the Values tab

Code editor

• Documentation web links now point to pages on Read The Docs

New Gallery Examples