Version 0.8.2

New feature: process class climlab.radiation.InstantInsolation() which correctly interprets longitude, respects local solar time and calculates hour angle. A utility function climlab.solar.insolation.instant_insolation() is also available, with usage mirroring the existing climlab.solar.insolation.daily_insolation().

Thanks to @HenryDane for this contribution!

This release also includes numerous bug fixes, updates for Python 3.11, and improvements to documentation and CI builds.

Version 0.8.1

A major refactor of the internals: all the Fortran code has been moved into external companion packages climlab-rrtmg, climlab-cam3-radiation, and climlab-emanuel-convection. Climlab is now (once again!) a pure Python package. Builds of these helper packages are available through conda-forge and will be automatically installed as dependencies by conda / mamba.

The climlab source repo also moved to https://github.com/climlab/climlab

There should be no breaking changes to the user-facing API.

The major motivation for this change was to (vastly) simplify the development and testing of new-and-improved climlab internals (coming soon).

Version 0.7.13

This is a maintenance release to support Python 3.10

The attrdict package by Brendan Curran-Johnson has been removed from the dependencies since it is broken on Python 3.10 and no longer under development.

A modified version of the MIT-licensed attrdict source is now bundled internally with climlab. There are no changes to climlab's public API.

Version 0.7.12

New feature: the ability to report top-of-atmosphere emission separated into spectral bands with the RRTMG radiation code.

A new tutorial notebook illustrates what you can do with this feature.

The change is completely backwards compatible. A new input flag return_spectral_olr has been added to the RRTMG_LW process, which defaults to False.

Many thanks to @AndrewWilliams3142 for leading this new contribution.

Version 0.7.11

This version brings some under-the-hood improvements to the automated download and caching of required data files. These services are now outsourced to pooch.

Version 0.7.10

No changes to climlab functionality.

This release brings some modernization to the build and test infrastructure:

• migrating all CI testing to GitHub Actions
• Removing appveyor and travisCI
• renaming the default source code branch from master to main
• Improvements to documentation of build and test procedures

Version 0.7.9

• Bug fixes
• Improvements to the documentation, specifically on how to build the docs locally.

Version 0.7.8

Bug fixes.

Version 0.7.7

Bug fixes

Version 0.7.6

Bug fixes, some improvements to build infrastructure and docs, and tested compatibility with Python 3.8 on all platforms.