CDAT version 8.0

The Community Data Analysis Tools (CDAT) team is pleased to announce the release of CDAT version 8.0.

 

CDAT is distributed via anaconda:

conda create -n cdat8  -c conda-forge -c cdat cdat
conda activate cdat8  # older conda use: source activate cdat8

New Name

• UV-CDAT is now the “Community Data Analysis Tools” (CDAT)

Packages

CDAT is now a suite comprising many packages.  9 packages were developed directly by the CDAT team:

• Community Data Management System (CDMS) v3.0
  • cdtime v3.0
• General Utilities (genutil) v8.0
• Climate Data Utilities (cdutil) v8.0
• Visualization Control System (VCS) v8.0
  • DV3D v8.0
  • VCS Addons v8.0
  • Thermodynamic (thermo) v8.0
  • Wheeler Kiladis (wk) v8.0
• cibots
• cdp
• output_viewer

A few more provided by the Python community at large

• vtk
• matplotlib
• basemap
• ipython
• jupyter
• nb_conda
• flake8
• autopep8
• spyder
• eofs
• windspharm
• esmpy

The split into many sub-package will allow us to release new features and bug fixes more frequently for each individual packages, with CDAGT releases unifying all these coming a bit more sparcely

Vistrails is gone, VCDAT is in

• We have dropped support for our GUI-based version and are replacing it with a browser-based version: VCDAT
• At the moment VCDAT is still in beta and is distributed separately see:

https://github.com/CDAT/vcdat/wiki
https://github.com/CDAT/vcdat/wiki/User-Installation

 

Support for Python 3

• All CDAT packages are now available in both Python 2 and Python 3 versions

 

Improved documentation

• readthedocs and jupyter notebooks

 

cdms improved esmpy support with masking

• Using esmf 7.1

Stability fixes

• All packages

vcs markers improved

vcs log axes enabled again

Release Changes

• Changes/bug fixes since v2.12

 

Many thanks to users, testers, and developers for helping UV-CDAT to reach this milestone. This is a bug fix release, we have fixed several major and minor bugs in version 2.10 and therefore we strongly recommend users upgrade their UV-CDAT installation.

Remarks:

• Ever wonder if you should answer yes or no at the “send anonympus usage report” question.
• Well those who answer yes help us as seen here