Carley Martin, on behalf of the Data Visulaization Working Group (DVWG) has announced the release of the latest version of the data visualization software. Quoting from her email to the DARN-users mailing list: 'As always, if you have any questions or need help installing and using pyDARN feel free to reach out to me on carley.martin@usask.ca. We also have documentation with tutorials on all our plots and features at pydarn.readthedocs.io You can also log any errors, problems and questions on our GitHub page as issues: github.com/SuperDARN/pydarn/issues We're always on the look out for talented students (and staff!) to help develop pyDARN, so if you know anyone who would like to improve or develop their own software skills, please reach out! Thanks to all the DVWG for helping with this very big release, and thank you to all the pyDARN users who have given us a lot to do this past year!' Notes on pyDARN installation and this revision: Download pyDARN as easily as: pip3 install pydarn Upgrade current installations with: pip3 install --upgrade pydarn The new major 4.0 release contains a lot of new features including: NEW IQ level data plotting NEW Latitude and longitude y-axis in RTP NEW Ball and stick plots NEW Map file variable time series plotting NEW Terminator plotting Coastlines available in magnetic coordinate spatial plots without Cartopy More flexibility in fan plots - single beams/ range gate range options TDiff correction for elevation data Boxcar filtering available for data before plotting Corrections to geolocation algorithms Standardized plot return values across all plots Bug fix Radar position labels no longer overlap Bug fix Warning use refactored Bug fix Multiple bug fixes for data handling and plotting in grid plots Bug fix Multiple bug fixes for the aesthetics of convection maps

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