NVIDIA/earth2studio 0.13.0

v0.13.0

Repository: NVIDIA/earth2studio

Tag: 0.13.0

Published: 2026-03-23T16:55:09Z

Prerelease: no

Release notes: Earth2Studio general release 0.13.0

:rotating_light: Breaking Changes :rotating_light:

• Renamed tolerance parameter in ISD data source to time_tolerance
• Changed GraphCastOperational and GraphCastSmall latitude input / output to be [90,-90]
• Removed device from cbottle SR load_model API

:closed_book: Changelog

:earth_americas: Added

• Added NOAA UFS observation dataframe sources for satellite and conventional data
• Added Earth2Studio base schema for dataframe sources
• Added Planetary Computer data source for ECMWF IFS analysis data
• Added accumulated variable support to NCAR ERA5 data source
• Added routine to tile tensors to higher-dimensional tensors
• Added routine to concatenate tensors along specified coordinate dimension
• Added Planetary Computer data source for GOES cloud and moisture imagery
• Added ability to have seperate data and model cache locations via env variables
• Added random dataframe source
• Added base reflectivity to MRMS data source
• Added fetch_dataframe utility function
• Added data assimilation model class
• Added equirectangular interpolation data assimilation model
• Added StormCast SDA model
• Added beta serve utils with inference server and client implementations
• Added HealPix data assimilation (HealDA) model
• Added energy_score metric for multivariate ensemble forecast verification

⚙️ Changed

• Changed available date for ARCO data source to be dynamically updated
• Changed ISD data frame return to master schema
• handshake_coords is now accepting list of dimensions while remaining backwards-compatible
• Updated CBottle infill to mixture of model checkpoints
• Updated GraphCastOperational and GraphCastSmall latitude input / output to be [90,-90]
• Updated GraphCast models to support multiple time inputs, multiple times will be looped not batched
• Renamed tolerance parameter in ISD data source to time_tolerance

❌ Removed

• Removed device from cbottle SR load_model API

:hammer: Fixed

• Fixed timezone bug in CBottleVideo that converted UTC time to local system time
• Bug in cbottle datasource resulting identical samples for multiple samples
• Bug in StormCast loading out-of-date model package, introduced in 5518edecbabee371c824b34f0f2ec269a4d6094f
• Bug in spherical perturbations which did not use lmax from the SHT transform

📦 Dependencies

• Added pyarrow explicitly to core dependencies
• Updated CBottle repo to NVlabs location
• Updated Makani dependency hash to later version with pyproject toml fix
• Updated ACE2 dependency hash with setuptools fix
• Updated models using PhysicsNeMo to compliance with nvidia-physicsnemo>=2.0

Special thank you to our external contributors:

• Jerry Lin
• abhaygoudannavar