MET release notes¶

When applicable, release notes are followed by the GitHub issue number which describes the bugfix, enhancement, or new feature: https://github.com/dtcenter/MET/issues

Version 9.1.3 release notes (20210319)¶

See complete list of GitHub Issues.
Fix PB2NC segfault when deriving PBL (#1715).
Fix parsing error for floating point percentile thresholds, like >SFP33.3 (#1716).

Version 9.1.2 release notes (20210310)¶

See complete list of GitHub Issues.
Enable the MET documentation to be published via Read the Docs.
Fix sporadic PB2NC segfaults for the -index command line option (#1618).
Correct the climatological CDF value reported by Grid-Stat (#1638).
The set_attr_accum option sets the lead time instead of the accumulation time (#1646).
Stat-Analysis fails when aggregating ECNT line from Ensemble-Stat (#1706).
The 1D histograms reported by Grid-Diag are incorrect when reading the same variable name from multiple data sources (#1694).

Version 9.1.1 release notes (20201118)¶

See complete list of GitHub Issues.
Fix Grid-Diag to correctly ignore missing data values (#1562).
Fix ncdump in the MET Docker image (#1554).
Fix bug in the MODE CTS output when running multiple convolution radii and thresholds (#1547).
Fix Stat-Analysis python embedding when the python script has zero arguments (#1537).
Fix ascii file list parsing logic (#1484).
Add support for Gaussian grids in the vx_data2d_python library (#1477).
Fix Ensemble-Stat logic when multiple ensemble members contain no valid data (#1475).
Add error message to state that python embedding pickling logic is not yet supported (#1472).
Fix TC-Gen to correctly handle the lead_window configuration file filtering option (#1465).
Fix the madis2nc log message for ACARS input, not ACARS profiler input (#1409).

Version 9.1 release notes (20200810)¶

Bugfixes:
- All changes included in the met-9.0.1, met-9.0.2, and met-9.0.3 bugfix releases.
Output format changes:
- Add new CNT line type columns (ANOM_CORR_UNCNTR) for the uncentered anomaly correlation without the mean error (#1399).
- Add new RPS line type column (RPS_COMP) for the complement of RPS (#1280).
Configuration file changes:
- Add various set_attr configuration options to override metadata read from input gridded data files (#1020).
- Enhance the regrid dictionary to support data censoring and conversion (#1293).
- For Grid-Diag, replace model entry with desc (#1391).
- For TC-Pairs, add new basin_map configuration option (#1390).
- For TC-RMW, add many track filtering configuration options (#1315).
Documentation changes:
- Migrate this User’s Guide from Lyx to Sphinx and publish the result (#1217, #1321, #1322, #1323, #1325).
- Correct Uniform Fractions Skill Score documentation (#1431).
- Clarify Point2Grid documentation about Gaussian methods (#1413).
- Resolve Point-Stat compiler warning messages (#1435).
Build process changes:
- Fix the compilation of the make_mapfiles development utility (#1364).
- Run valgrind to search for memory issues (#816).
- Fix valgrind warnings (#1387).
- Fix uninitialized ConcatString variable (#1386).
- Enhance the GRIB2 library to print a warning message about inconsistent usage of the -D__64BIT__ compilation flag (#1416).
- Enhance various log message, error messages, and usage statements (#1350, #1347, #1339, #1338, #1333).
- Remove MET_BASE references from Rscripts (#1289).
Fortify changes:
- Address Fortify findings for Point2Grid (#1352).
- Address Fortify findings for met-9.0.2 (#1359).
- Address Fortify findings for met-9.1_beta2 (#1417).
Enhancements to existing tools:
- Common utility libraries
  
  Enhance the regrid dictionary with data censoring and conversion (#1293).
  
  Make the ConcatString class more efficient (#1358).
  
  Make the StringArray class more efficient (#1357).
  
  Fix parsing of CF-compliant time stamps from CDO (#1331).
- Python library
  
  Update Python embedding scripts (#1265).
  
  Enhance the parsing of ASCII file lists with Python embedding (#1432).
- Tropical cyclone library
  
  Alert users of the automatic renaming of AVN to GFS in MET tropical cyclone tools (#1444).
- Plot-Data-Plane
  
  Update the formatting of the colorbar values to show more significant digits (#1423).
- Gen-Vx-Mask
  
  Enhance Gen-Vx-Mask with python embedding and named input grids (#1292).
- Grid-Diag
  
  Enhancements, refinement, and testing of the Grid-Diag tool (#1391, #1279).
- Point2Grid
  
  Enhance Point2Grid to process multiple fields (#1396).
  
  Enhance Point2Grid to enable Gaussian filtering for GOES16/17 data (#1291).
- Point-Stat and Grid-Stat
  
  Add new CNT line type columns (ANOM_CORR_UNCNTR) for the uncentered anomaly correlation without the mean error (#1399).
  
  Add new RPS line type column (RPS_COMP) for the complement of RPS (#1280).
- Point-Stat
  
  Update Point-Stat HiRA configuration options for computing RPS (#1400).
- Grid-Stat
  
  Update Grid-Stat attributes written to the NetCDF matched pairs file (#1324).
- Ensemble-Stat
  
  Fix Ensemble-Stat runtime error when obs_thresh results in 0 pairs being retained (#1397).
  
  Enhance Ensemble-Stat log messages (#1440).
- Series-Analysis
  
  Enhance Series-Analysis to print a warning message about a common misconfiguration (#1372).
  
  Add Series-Analysis verbosity level warning (#1382).
- TC-Pairs
  
  Add TC-Pairs new basin_map configuration option (#1390).
- TC-Gen
  
  Fix TC-Gen BEST track genesis event definition (#1447).
  
  Fix TC-Gen to correctly apply the genesis event definition criteria from the configuration file to BEST and operational tracks (#1427).
  
  Add TC-Gen warning for duplicate genesis events (#1380).
  
  Enhance TC-Gen to support file lists for teh -genesis and -track command line options (#1442).
- TC-RMW
  
  Add many TC-RMW track filtering configuration options (#1315).