v1.2.5

This will be the last version of MPAS-Analysis to support python 2.7

Major Enhancements

• Add comparison maps with WOA18 climatology #622
• Add task for plotting T-S diagrams in ocean regions #617

Minor Enhancements

• Add customDirectory for diagnostics #612
• Add custom config file to webpage #614
• Adds sample config and jobscript file for compy #618

Clean-up

• Isolate requests import #610
• Round dlat/dlon in mesh names to 3 digits #611
• Add 'antarctic' and 'arctic' tags to tasks #613

Bug fixes

• Add missing config.html template #615
• Fix copying properties in mask creation #620
• Handle case where git command is not available #623

Contributors

@xylar
@milenaveneziani
@bradyrx
@vanroekel

v1.2.4

Major Enhancements

• Add time series for Antarctic ocean regions #575
• Add inset maps to transects and regional-mean plots #585
• Add support for SOSE maps on a 10,000 x 10,000 km grid #597

Minor Enhancements

• Add MPAS-Analysis version and git hashtag to webpage #566
• Add ncremap support to climatology depth slices and transects #557
• Add climatology maps for min/max mixed-layer depth #574
• Add subprocessCounts and daskTasks to ocean time series tasks #578
• Allow zmin/zmax for ocean regions from config file #582
• Update to nco>=4.8.1 #605

Clean-up

• Set gallery thumbnail sizes #560
• Update most recent cori config file #580
• clean-up related to climatologyMapMLDMinMax #579
• Divide plotting module into 6 distinct modules #583
• Several PRs to reduce memory cost of Read The Docs #588, #589, #590, #591, #592, #593, #594, #595
• Add natural earth instructions to README for issues with downloading #606

Bug fixes

• Fix matplotlib version #564
• Use chunking to reduce memory for Antarctic Melt time series #569
• Fix linking of main and reference directories for a main vs. ref run #581
• Fix main vs. ctrl bugs #584
• Write string data as unicode in NetCDF files #587
• Fix the WOCE insets to use user-selected bounds #600

v1.2.3

Minor Enhancements

• Support multiple subprocesses per task (12 for ncclimo in bck mode) #551
• Update path in ALCF example conf files #536
• Optionally compute climatologies with xarray/dask #553
• Add support and docs for ncclimo "mpi" mode #555

Clean-up

• Switch to conda-forge and mpas-analysis package in README #552
• Remove proj4 requirement and constraint #554

v1.2.2

Minor release for a bug fix related to trying to run analysis on only one year of data.

Minor Enhancements

• Adding new config file for run on Cori-KNL. #548

Bug fixes

• Fix lat/lon axis limits for WOCE with bounds #549
• Check for enough data in anomaly and Nino34 tasks; fix MOC time series with 1 year of data #547

v1.2.1

Minor release for a bug fix in the package

Minor Enhancements

• Use ncremap on projection grids #521
• Update WOCE transects to allow x min and max #539

Clean-up

• Update the conda recipe with a little clean-up #527
• Remove the conda recipe #535
• Update license #538

Bug fixes

• Add back missing WOCE transect at Prime Meridian #523
• Remove time variables from SSH Obs #526
• Various PRs that debugged ReadTheDocs #529 #530 #532 #533 #534
• Fix path to files in obs directory in package #541

v1.2

This update is largely a combination of clean-up and some minor enhancements. The one major analysis task that was added provides vertical profiles of mean T, S and potential density averaged through time and across ocean regions.

Major Enhancements

• Add regional depth profiles #516

Minor Enhancements

• Allow main vs. ref comparison to use a cached main in addition to a cached ref analysis run #494
• Consolidate base directory for diagnostics (obs, mapping and mask files) into one config option #500
• Add potential density to WOCE transect plots #498

Clean-up

• Change reference run to control run #496
• Remove code related to deprecated "autoclose" option #501
• Make output during setup-and-check phase less verbose #511
• Fix PEP8 issues in the whole code #518

Bug fixes

• Fix unsupported file_cache_maxsize for older xarray #506
• Fix handling of missing namelist/streams files #512
• Add back missing WOCE transect at Prime Meridian #523
• Remove time variables from SSH Obs #526

v1.1

Highlights include analysis of surface biogeochemistry, eddy kinetic energy and iceberg concentration as well as enhancement of transect plots.

Major Enhancements

• Lat and lon axes for transect plots #437
• Task to plot iceberg concentration #320
• Task for surface climatology maps of ocean biogeochemistry fields #433
• Transect contour plots #450
• Eddy Kinetic Energy (EKE) climatology analysis #447

Minor Enhancements

• Added a utility for making an MPAS to Antarctic mapping file #446
• Updated the location, depth and seasons for SOSE transects #462
• Added climatologyMapBGC to docs #471
• Switched to using an entry point for the mpas_analysis package #477
• Added a subtask for computing region masks on the fly #482
• Split TimeSeriesAntarcticMelt into multiple subtasks #483
• Enhance "error bars" for observations in Antarctic melt time series plots #489
• Break the MOC into several subtasks #487

Minor clean-up

• Disabled HDF5 locking in example job scripts #443
• Updated license file #444, #448
• Refactored BGC so it is one task, not one per field #453
• Updated the list of public observations #456
• Removed depricated inplace arg to xarray ds rename calls #480
• Clean up documentation #485

Bug fixes

• Bug fix in climatology anomalyRefYear #442
• Bug fix in interpolating transect segments #439
• Fixed error reporting on tasks #449
• Updated observations XML for EKE #454
• Fixed some errors and warnings that come up during CI #465
• Fixed Read The Docs and updated to python 3.6 #466, #467, #469
• Fixed detecting periodic lat/lon descriptors #475
• Explicitly set colormap type (indexed or continuous) in config options #473
• Fixed CI under python 2 #478
• Update to CI to python 3.7 #479
• Add periodic image to BGC obs data #486
• Catches zero arguments #491

v1.0

The first official public release!

Major Enhancements

• Add climatology maps for ocean-heat-content anomalies #342
• Add a task to compute climatologies of mixed layer depth and compare with SOSE #353
• Add tasks for plotting velocity magnitude and components against SOSE #355
• Add task to plot Bottom PT, S and PD against Schmidtko et al. (2014) observations #369
• Add script to download obs+mapping+region_mask files from public server #375
• Document all tasks and all sections of config file #397
• Add SOSE potential density task #366
• Add WOCE and SOSE potential temperature and salinity transect tasks #327
• Add a task for plotting geojson transects #368
• Add script to plot online MOC #415

Minor Enhancements

• Update script for SOSE preprocessing #354
• Add a script for generating README and bibtex files for each obs. dataset #367
• Add README.md to the documentation as a quick start guide #373
• Add a publicObs tag to all tasks with obs. on public server #379
• Add autogenerated page for each obs. data set #391
• Add config file to bottom of main webpage #404
• Add new colormaps #410

Minor clean-up

• Update author list #341
• Update example config files for Edison #343
• Change list of ice shelves to a more useful one #346
• Remove unused timeCacheSubdirectory config option #356
• Updates mpas-o_in and mpas-seaice_in names #363
• Remove old QU240 run, add new QU240wLI on edison #374
• Make line colors consistent across plots #378
• Update obs in theta config file #376
• Update many entries in the observation database #387
• Switch scripts that download obs. data to use "requests" package #392
• Update MHT legend text with Trenberth reference #395
• Update default color maps #394
• Add climatologyMapSosePotentialDensity to docs #405
• A general clean-up pull request #408:
  • Fix some missing packages in the README
  • Generalize indexNino34 to be labeled correctly if a user chooses nino3 or nino4 as regions
  • Change temperature to potential temperature in many places
  • Move the obs paths/files from [oceanObservations] and [seaIceObservations] to the individual tasks
  • Removed empty bibtex files from the documentation; don't autogenerate them
  • Moved [regions], [plots] and [html] toward the top of config.default
  • Make the --purge flag only delete directories known to MPAS-Analysis
• Remove "displayToScreen" option #412
• Add enhancements and clean-up SOSE, Schmidtko and geojson tasks #416
• Log task progress to file and instead display progress bar #417
• Update example config files; fix list of mapping files #434

Bug fixes

• Fix bug in importing StringIO #361
• Fix bounds on sea-ice time series from cache file #365
• Fix legend plotting when obs are available #398
• Update all multifile datasets to use ncrcat #411
• Fix file prefix for SOSE climatology task with ref runs #423
• Fix climatology computations with single months #427
• Fix periodic boundary in polar plots of lat/lon data #430

v0.7.5

The minor release includes a number of bug-fixes and enhancements.

Major Enhancements

• A task for plotting the sea surface height vs. obs #308
• Tasks to plot MPAS T and S at various depths vs. ARGO obs. #316
• Maked mpas_analysis an installable package #160
• Added license information to the repo and to each file #160
• Add a table of observations to the docs #335

Minor Enhancements

• Utility script for making MPAS to lat/lon mapping files #304
• Optionally add bolus velocity to MOC #312
• A script for generating a table of observational data sets in the docs #333
• User-specified tick start and stride for time axes #337

Minor clean-up

• Switch from relative to absolute imports #307
• Change diff color map to be white near zero #311
• Use common color map setup for all plots with color maps #313
• Renames the MPAS-Seaice and makes associated clean-up to docs #314, #326
• Add support for specifying the anomaly ref year #317
• Clean-up of Documentation #331

Bug fixes

• Fix zero line in time series #305
• Fix support for standalone MPAS runs #306
• Fix moving average of preprocessed OHC data #325
• Bypass an xarray bug by making non-time-dependent vars be coords in mpas_xarray #332

v0.7.0

This release:

• Splits climatology maps into more subtasks
• Adds a task for plotting climatology maps for Antarctic melt rates
• Adds analysis tasks for plotting SOSE T and S
• Adds Antarctic melt time series
• Supports comparison with a reference run

Minor clean-up includes:

• Ploting no more than 300 pluses in OHC plot
• Changing to mask directory instead of individual mask files
• Fixing decoding of string in python 3 when rerunning time series
• Fixing first file for time series
• Cleaning up the nino34 index task
• Adding "only_" prefix to "generate" config option; clarifying output from --list command line option
• Checking for missing variables in MPAS time series
• Reading meridional heat transport lat bins from either of 2 streams
• Splitting OHC, temperature and salinity anomalies into separate tasks
• Adding -4 flag to force NetCDF4 output format from NCO