Pysteps

What's Changed
* Adapt pysteps to allow for postprocessing plugins by joeycasey87 in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/405
* Allow for semi dynamic incremental mask in blending setup by RubenImhoff in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/459
* Use max rain pixels for timestep and member to decompose for precip cascades in case of zero radar by mats-knmi in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/461

New Contributors
* joeycasey87 made their first contribution in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/405

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/compare/v1.15.0...v1.16.0

What's Changed
* Replace use of distutils by shutils.copytree in datasets.py by RubenImhoff in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/458
* fix noise tapering and error handling by mats-knmi in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/460
* Bump version by mats-knmi in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/462


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/compare/v1.14.0...v1.15.0

What's Changed
* Use seed for all rng in blending to make a test run completely deterministic by mats-knmi in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/450
* Refactor steps in blending code by sidekock in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/453
* Use importlib.metadata instead of pkg_resources by dnerini in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/446
* Fix expired deprecation in scipy v1.14 by dnerini in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/455
* Expire argument deprecation warnings by dnerini in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/456


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/compare/v1.13.0...v1.14.0

What's Changed
* Refactoring steps-nowcast by sidekock in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/436
* Importers for new OPERA products by pulkkins in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/441


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/compare/v1.12.0...v1.13.0

What's Changed
* Support for custom colormap in `precipfield.py` and `plot_custom_precipitation_range.py` example by rutkovskii in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/433
* Reduce memory usage in steps blending by mats-knmi in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/435

New Contributors
* rutkovskii made their first contribution in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/433

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/compare/v1.11.0...v1.12.0

This release includes developments made during the July 2024 pySTEPS-hackathon with focus on the blending module.
Many thanks to all contributors!

What's Changed
* fix: make sure netcdf exporters can handle list of timesteps by RubenImhoff in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/369
* Add lambert_conformal_conic projection by FelixE91 in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/380
* Changed default number of cascade levels to 6 everywhere in the project by sidekock in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/387
* Add option to smooth radar mask by sidekock in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/379
* Consider splits and merges in tdating by ritvje in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/349
* Add resample distributions function for probability matching by RubenImhoff in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/390
* Replace numpy.matrix with numpy.ndarray by dnerini in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/407
* Fix: make sure that precip_models variable has the correct length by RubenImhoff in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/368
* Fix support for timesteps list in case model has rain but radar does not by mats-knmi in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/411
* Performance fix by gjm174 in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/410
* Optimisation in excprob function by viktor40 in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/424
* Fix excessive memory usage of _fill_nans_infs_nwp_cascade by mats-knmi in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/425
* Drop python 3.9, support python 3.12 by dnerini in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/422
* Print missing filename by dnerini in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/427
* Modify probability matching code to allow ignoring a part of the domain by ladc in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/428

New Contributors
* FelixE91 made their first contribution in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/380
* sidekock made their first contribution in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/387
* gjm174 made their first contribution in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/410
* viktor40 made their first contribution in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/424

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/compare/v1.10.0...v1.11.0