Version 1.9.0

Released on github and pypi (pip install metview). Installed at ECMWF as part of metview/5.14.0

the plot functions now automatically plot inline if running inside a Jupyter notebook
- it is no longer necessary to call setoutput('jupyter')
- call setoutput('screen') to force the interactive plot window to appear
inline plots in Jupyter notebooks will be automatically trimmed of surrounding whitespace if pillow is installed
new functions to build popup dialogs and read in user input. Available via the newly added ui module.
- ui.dialog()
- ui.any()
- ui.colour()
- ui.icon()
- ui.option_menu()
- ui.slider()
- ui.toggle()
added high-level plotting functions to be used with Datasets or in Jupyter notebooks
- plot_maps()
- plot_diff_maps()
- plot_xs()
- plot_rmse()
new object Track to represent a storm track
new function make_geoview() to generate a geoview object with predefined settings
new interface for Datasets
- a Dataset represents a collection of data files (GRIB and CSV) and a set of predefined styles to visualise the data. Ideal for training courses or case studies.
- see Jupyter notebook example at https://metview.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebook_gallery.html
added new keyword argument called check_local to gallery.load_dataset(). If it is True and the data file exists locally it will not be downloaded.
fixed issue when describe() crashed when called with a paramId

Version 1.8.1

Released on github and pypi (pip install metview). Installed at ECMWF as part of metview/5.13.2

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Released on ECMWF desktops and ecgate on 2018-06-08.

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