Introducing gridpp 0.7.0

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Gridpp version 0.7.0 is the latest release and was released January 25, 2024. For a full tutorial on how to use it, check out the wiki page at https://github.com/metno/gridpp/wiki.

New features:

• Improved computational performance of optimal interpolation functions by around 10%
• Added mask_threshold_downscale_quantile to compute quantiles and downscale in one go (thanks @LonnekevB)
• Added points-to-points gridding methods
• Added vector version of gridpp::interpolate
• Added RandomChoice statistic. For functions that compute statistics on vectors, this allows you to randomly pick an element in the vector.
• Added neighbourhood_score function that computes a verification score for all observations in a neighbourhood
• Added gridding and gridding_nearest methods that takes points as inputs and points as output
• Better handling of repeated x-values in apply_curve
• Raise exception if constructing Grid or Points objects with undefined (e.g. NaN) coordinates
• Pre-compiled linux packages for Python 3.7 to 3.11 available

Bug fixes:

• Fixed bilinear interpolation for unusual cases (polar stereographic case covering the north pole; thanks @trygveasp)
• Fixed bug in structure functions across dateline (thanks @joewkr)
• Fixed optional_interpolation_full for points (thanks Christoph Herbert and Ewan Pinnington)