December 2025 monthly summary for openghg/openghg focusing on delivering ECMWF pressure handling improvements, codebase cleanup, and storage management enhancements. The work enhances data accuracy, reliability, and developer productivity, driving business value in data pipelines and reproducibility. Highlights include improved ECMWF pressure rounding and area validation, test utilities refactor, and user-controlled local storage deletion after retrieval.

October 2025: End-to-end SiteMet integration and core refactors delivered robust data handling, improved plotting, and stronger test coverage, driving reliability and business value across the data ingestion, standardisation, and visualization flows. Notable outcomes include: - SiteMet core data model and parser integrated into spec, datatype, standardise, retrieval, and defaults - Codebase cleanup: moved met utilities into a dedicated util folder for cleaner structure - Plotting enhancements: improved support for multiple levels and inlets with updated docstrings - Testing and data fixtures: added met test helpers, dummy dataset, and parser tests - Stability and maintenance: fixed import errors and typos, removed stray artifacts, deprecated metstore references, and refined tests for stability

July 2025 monthly summary for openghg/openghg focusing on METData retrieval improvements and data pull robustness. Delivered a refactor of METData retrieval by renaming retrieve_met to pull_met, updating its function signature and docstring. Strengthened data pull reliability by improving save path handling (auto-creating missing directories) and enhancing CDS access checks. These changes reduce pull-time failures, simplify usage, and improve maintainability for meteorological data workflows.

June 2025 monthly summary for openghg/openghg: Delivered the ECMWF CDS API Meteorological Data Retrieval feature. Added the cdsapi dependency and a retrieve_met function to fetch meteorological data by site, network, years, and variables. Implemented a helper to verify CDS API access and implemented logic to determine appropriate pressure levels and geographic areas necessary for data retrieval. These changes enable automated, programmatic access to ECMWF meteorological data via the Copernicus CDS API, improving data availability and pipeline automation for users.

April 2025 monthly summary for openghg_inversions: Implemented satellite data processing capability by introducing a configuration template and retrieval parameters (platform and max_level) to enable processing satellite observations. The work is backed by two commits and is pending testing for full validation. No other features or bugs were reported in this period for this repository.

March 2025 monthly summary for openghg development. Focused on data standardization cleanup, ModelScenario processing enhancements for column-based data and satellite handling, and extending the openghg_inversions satellite input configuration template. Delivered tested data cleanup, robust inference improvements, and groundwork for future branch workflows with comprehensive changelog and documentation updates. Business value: cleaner data, more reliable pipelines, and expanded configurability enabling faster experimentation and deployment.