Update to v1.8.0

[xylar]

In this version

• 5 packages built with Spack for use on compute nodes:
  • esmf 8.2.0
  • moab 5.4.1
  • nco 5.1.3
  • tempestextremes 2.2.1
  • tempestremap 2.1.6
• Many packages have been updated. In addition to moab and nco listed above, notable updates include:
  • e3sm_diags 2.8.0
  • e3sm_to_cmip 1.9.1
  • geometric_features 0.7.0
  • mache 1.9.0
  • mpas-analysis 1.8.0
  • mpas_tools 0.15.0
  • xcdat 0.4.0
  • zppy 2.2.0
  • zstash 1.3.0

New and improved

• E3SM Diags: Adds MERRA2 aerosol data for AOD diagnostics, Aerosol Budget Tables (set name: "aerosol_budget", and an example for running with zppy. Other changes include fixing a matplotlib rotation bug and removing cdtime as a dependency. More updates can be found in the v2.8.0 Release Notes.

• e3sm_to_cmip: v1.9.0 and v1.9.1 were released since the previous E3SM-unified version. New features include support for E3SM v2 MPAS variables and nco>=5.11. They also include various bug fixes for accessing the underlying variable data using xarray and/or numpy. More updates can be found in the v1.9.0 and v1.9.1 release notes.

• MPAS-Analysis: New features have been added from the recent E3SM hackathon on MPAS-Analysis: Arctic regional analysis, barotropic streamfunctions, sea-ice production and melting and sea-surface height histograms. More updates can be found in the v1.8.0 Release Notes.

• MOAB: Preliminary support for bilinear maps (serial only), several bug fixes, and memory usage/performance improvements for offline map generation. For more information, refer to the detailed release notes for v5.4.0 and v5.4.1.

• NCO: Compression support improved, ncremap supports EAMxx and new vertical interpolation methods, NCZarr support added, see the release notes for versions 5.1.1-5.1.3

• xcdat: There have been several releases since the previous E3SM-unified including v0.3.1, v0.3.2, v0.3.3, and most recently v0.4.0. All of these releases address various bug fixes for features such as spatial/temporal averaging and horizontal regridding. v0.4.0 introduces includes a feature update to support datasets that have N dimensions mapped to N coordinates to represent an axis.updates (e.g., E3SM native datasets). See the changelog for a complete list of updates.

• zppy: zppy 2.2.0 adds Perlmutter support and hemispheric averaging in time series. More updates can be found in the v2.2.0 Release Notes.

• zstash: zstash 1.3.0 adds an option to retry hsi get if it is unsuccessful. It also optimizes Globus transfers. More updates can be found in the v1.3.0 Release Notes.

Deployment

Deployed on:

• [x] Acme1
• [x] Andes
• [x] Anvil
• [x] Chrysalis
• [x] Compy
• [x] Cori-Haswell
• [x] Perlmutter-CPU

[tomvothecoder]

Hey @xylar, just a heads up that we released xcdat=0.4.0 yesterday. I don't anticipate another release between now and the release of E3SM-unified 1.8.0.

Can you update the version to 0.4.0 instead? I updated the Confluence page to reflect this as well.

[xylar]

@tomvothecoder, done!