v0.13.1

Release Notes

New Features

• Add a new function called get_us_states to the helpers module for obtaining a GeoDataFrame of the US states. It has an optional argument for returning the contiguous states, continental states, commonwealths states, or US territories. The data are retrieved from the Census' Tiger 2021 database.
• In the NID class keep the valid_fields property as a pandas.Series instead of a list, so it can be searched easier via its str accessor.

Internal Changes

• Refactor the plot.signatures function to use proplot instead of matplotlib.
• Improve performance of NWIS.get_streamflow by not validating the layer name when instantiating the WaterData class. Also, make the function more robust by checking if streamflow data is available for each station and throw a warning if not.

Bug Fixes

• Fix an issue in NWIS.get_streamflow where -9999 values were not being filtered out. According to NWIS, these values are reserved for ice-affected data. This fix sets these values to numpy.nan.