v0.11.0

Release Notes

New Features

• Add command-line interface (:issue_day:[7]{.title-ref}).
• Use AsyncRetriever for sending requests asyncronosly with
  persistent caching. A cache folder in the current directory is created.
• Check for validity of start/end dates based on Daymet V4 since
  Puerto Rico data starts from 1950 while North America and Hwaii start from 1980.
• Check for validity of input coordinate/geometry based on the Daymet
  V4 bounding boxes.
• Improve accuracy of computing Psychrometric constant in PET
  calculations by using an equation in Allen et al. 1998.

Breaking Changes

• Drop support for Python 3.6 since many of the dependencies such as xarray and pandas have done so.
• Change loc_crs and geo_crs arguments to crs in get_bycoords
  and get_bygeom.

Documentation

• Add examples to docstrings and improve writing.
• Add more notes regarding the underlying assumptions for
  pet_bycoords and pet_bygrid.

Internal Changes

• Refactor Daymet class to use pydantic for validating the inputs.
• Increase test coverage.