I came into this summer internship with a goal of working on the Network Common Data Form (netCDF) libraries. NetCDF is a combination of software libraries and APIs describing a data model for scientific multidimensional arrays. I planned to improve the online user guide, write tutorial code, and learn about storage and efficiency.
I spent this summer with Unidata contributing new features and improvements for version 1.1.0 of MetPy. This release is the first to introduce new features since 1.0 debuted in December 2020. I focused on enhancements to MetPy's declarative interface, which allows users to plot datasets on maps. These new capabilities provide greater control over map design and introduce support for plotting additional data formats.
This summer I worked with the Unidata tech team on addressing the MetPy 1.1.0 milestones we prepared for it to update from version 1.0.0. Throughout this process of learning how to navigate GitHub and MetPy and how to implement new code, code verification and testing played a large role.