<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">The Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software (SPEDAS) development team is pleased to announce the release of PySPEDAS 1.3! The latest version is available in PyPI, as well as at our GitHub repository:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/spedas/pyspedas" class="">https://github.com/spedas/pyspedas</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For those of you unaware, PySPEDAS contains tools for loading, analyzing and plotting data from a number of space- and ground-based observatories.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Where to get it</b></div><div class="">The latest version can be installed using pip:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">pip install pyspedas --upgrade</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you've previously installed pyspedas, the --upgrade option will be required to update to the latest version. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">What's new?</b></div><div class="">- First version shipped with our experimental matplotlib backend to PyTplot</div><div class="">- Added wrappers for Sheng Tian’s implementation of the geopack library (T89, T96, T01, TS04)</div><div class="">- Large updates to the MMS plug-in, including new tools for calculating energy and angular spectrograms, as well as moments from the FPI and HPCA plasma distribution data</div><div class="">- Added the 0th (EXPERIMENTAL) version of the ERG plug-in from the Arase team in Japan</div><div class="">- Added new tools for working with various vector data stored in PyTplot variables, e.g., tkm2re, cross products, dot products, normalizing vectors</div><div class="">- Added routines for wave polarization calculations</div><div class="">- Added routines for field aligned coordinate transformations</div><div class="">- Added tools for Spherical Elementary Currents (SECS) and Equivalent Ionospheric Currents (EICS) from Xin Cao and Xiangning Chu at the University of Colorado Boulder</div><div class="">- Added initial load routine for Heliophysics Application Programmer's Interface (HAPI) data</div><div class="">- Added initial load routine for Kyoto Dst data</div><div class="">- Added initial load routine for THEMIS All Sky Imager data</div><div class="">- Added THEMIS FIT L1 calibration tools</div><div class="">- Numerous other bug fixes and updates</div><div class="">- Large updates to the documentation (including over 100 new copy+paste examples)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We created a notebook showing several of these new features at:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1_fV6Ob8rfnCkohpec5YtMY4tl7tLbuvB?usp=sharing" class="">https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1_fV6Ob8rfnCkohpec5YtMY4tl7tLbuvB?usp=sharing</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Where to find documentation</b></div><div class="">Please see our docuementation online at: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://pyspedas.readthedocs.io/" class="">https://pyspedas.readthedocs.io/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Additional example notebooks can be found at our SPEDAS GitHub page:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/spedas" class="">https://github.com/spedas</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For example, more MMS notebooks can be found in the repository:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/spedas/mms-examples" class="">https://github.com/spedas/mms-examples</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Where to get help</b></div><div class="">Bug reports, help requests, and enhancement suggestions can be filed as issues directly on our repository: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/spedas/pyspedas" class="">https://github.com/spedas/pyspedas</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">or can be submitted via email to: <a href="mailto:SPEDAS_Science_Support@ssl.berkeley.edu" class="">SPEDAS_Science_Support@ssl.berkeley.edu</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Eric Grimes, and the SPEDAS development team</div></body></html>