v1.8.0

Minor release that adds new features from the recent E3SM hackathon on MPAS-Analysis: Arctic regional analysis, barotropic streamfunctions, sea-ice production and melting and sea-surface height histograms. It also includes a variety of bug fixes, clean up and improvements to documentation.

Minor enhancement:

• Add support for remapping from MPAS vertices #906
• Add Arctic Ocean time series, profiles, and TS diagrams to polar regions #896
• Add Horizontal Streamfunction plots + Subpolar North Atlantic projection #898
• Add sea ice production/melting analysis tasks #907
• Add histogram plot type and ocean histogram task #917

Bug fixes

• Fix config file on the webpage #913
• Fixes to formatting and config options for climatologyMapBSF #918
• Fix comparison of sea-ice thickness vs. control #925
• Keep attributes in python climatology computations #930
• Fix masking of Hovmoller plots on different meshes #927

Clean up

• Switch to plotting sea-ice concentration and thickness on projection grids #915
• Add python 3.11, drop python <3.8 #924
• Bump python version in test suites #929
• Plot production, melt iceberg concentration on projection grids #928

Documentation

• Fix some docstrings #919
• Add docs and examples for sea ice production tasks #920
• Fix description of building the docs #921
• Fixup formatting in histogram documentation #923
• Fix complete config file name in log dir #926

Continuous Integration

• Disable latest conda in CI (for now) #932

Contributors

@anirban89
@cbegeman
@darincomeau
@milenaveneziani
@xylar