s2dverification 2.8.6 (Release date: )

• Apply Roxygen2 format to all the files.
• Bug fix in Composite().
• Bug fix in Ano(). Recommend to assign the dimensions by name to avoid confusion when the dimensions have same length.
• Trend() documentation error fix.
• Introduce new function PlotMatrix().

s2dverification 2.8.0 (Release date: 2017-02-13)

• Change licence from GPL-3 to LGPL-3.
• New veriApply compatible score functions (.BrierScore, .Corr, .RMS, .RMSSS, .RatioRMS, .RatioSDRMS and .Trend).
• New function CDORemap to interpolate R arrays with CDO.
• New function ArrayToNetCDF to save R arrays with metadata in NetCDF files.
• Enhance plot_timeseries.R and plot_maps.R example scripts to work with file-per-chunk data, for auto-ecearth v3.2.1a.
• Add colour-blind colour bars for the map plots.
• Add warning in Load when extrapolating data.
• Bug fix in ProbBins when called with cross-validation.
• Enhance documentation.
• Adapt UltimateBrier to SpecsVerification 0.5-0.
• Enhancements to adjust size and resolution in plotting functions.
• Solve PlotEquiMap bug when values equal to the lower limit.
• Bug fix in Ano.
• Bug fix in PlotVsLTime.
• Small update in the configuration file.

s2dverification 2.7.0 (Release date: 2016-08-24)

Enhanced PlotEquiMap() and PlotStereoMap() with lots of new options and fixed issues: - Colour bar with triangle ends and lots of new features. - Margins, labels, ticks, colour bar, titles now arranged properly. - Now possibile to adjust colour and border of continents, size, colour and type of contour lines, size of labels, ticks and margins, colour and width of boxes, etc. - Draw multiple superimposed dot/symbol layers. - Draw boxes in PlotStereoMap(). - PlotStereoMap() with bounding circle. - Add function PlotLayout() to automatically generate complex figure layouts and populate with plots from multi-dimensional arrays. - Fix and updated corrupted example scripts (required for new auto-ecearth releases to work). - Add function Subset() to easily take chunks of data arrays. - Fix bug in Load() under some particular configurations. - Enhance margins in PlotAno(). - Update sample data to be together with metadata as provided by Load(). - Update and fix in the BSC Load() configuration file.

s2dverification 2.6.0 (Release date: 2016-06-06)

• Update configuration file.
• Functions to compute variability modes and project data on EOF() and ProjectField().
• Function to compute co·variability modes: SVD(), by Javi.
• Function to compute the NAO: NAO(), by Fabian, Virginie, Lauriane, Martin.
• Brier score/skill score accounting for small ensemble/start date sample size: UltimateBrier().
• K-means spatial clustering: Cluster().
• Synthetic data generator: ToyModel().
• Tropical cyclone downscaling: StatSeasAtlHurr().
• Function to composite fields: Composite().
• Function to generate map animations: AnimateMap().
• Function to plot time series with box-and-whisker plots: PlotBoxWhisker().
• Possible to disable computation of confidence intervals or p-values in ACC(), Corr(), RatioRMS(), RatioSDRMS(), RMS(), RMSSS(), Spread() and Trend().
• Possible to adjust confidence level in all functions that provide confidence intervals: ACC(), Corr(), RMS(), Spread() and Trend().
• Possible to plot arrows in PlotEquiMap().
• Possible to save plots in multiple formats, to file or onscreen from all plot functions.
• Objects returned by Load() are now closer to the format in downscaleR. The initial and end date of each time step is provided now.
• Enhancements in Smoothing().
• Load() now stops if the tag \(START_DATE\)/\(YEAR\)+\(MONTH\)+\(DAY\) is not in the path pattern of any of the experiments.

s2dverification 2.5.0 (Release date: 2016-01-04)

• Fix bugs when using masks in Load()
• Able to specify masks with paths to NetCDF files

s2dverification 2.4.7 (Release date: 2015-11-15)

• Update plot_timeseries.R to new paths and to ‘ncdf4’.
• Improve performance when retrieving subsets of data (regions of earth or time periods).
• Add possibility to use Load() without a configuration file. See details on parameters ‘exp’ and ‘obs’ in ?Load

Load() now returns plenty of metadata. Highlighted:
- Paths to all loaded files - Paths to not found files - Stamp with all the provided parameters to exactly reproduce any Load() call - The name of the common grid (if any), following CDO’s naming conventions

Other enhancements in Load(): - Enhance error handling and error messages - Add “progress bar” - Detect automatically grid of the files. No need to specify it - Detect automatically if the requested variable is 2-dimensional or global mean. No need to specify it - Possibility to load observations only, from a limited period of time only - Possibility to load NetCDF files with disordered dimensions - Remove system dependency of ‘s2dverification’ to NCO and some GNU tools - Simplify configuration file: removed lists of variables and reduced from 5 tables to 2, one for experimental datasets and one for observational datasets. You can convert old configuration files to the new format with the script in /shared/earth/software/scripts/convertConfig.R as follows: /shared/earth/software/scripts/convertConfig.R /path/to/configfile.conf - Fix and updated the sample script plot_timeseries.R - Fix wrong entries in BSC configuration file for some ice variables.

s2dverification 2.4.0 (Release date: 2015-07-27)

• Option to draw rectangles in PlotEquiMap()
• Motification of Corr() to accomodate ranked correlation
• Add the possibility to load the second set of HadCM3 decadal data (i3p1)
• Add functions to assist in manipulating the configuration file
• Improve examples that use extremely reduced experimental and observational datasets
• Uniformize documentation style
• Add possibility to configure dimension names to look for inside NetCDF files
• Add the possibility to load ESA observations from SMHI
• Fix bug that happened in some cases when a common grid is not specified

s2dverification 2.3.2 (Release date: 2015-04-23)

• New CRPS() function to compute the continuous ranked probability score for ensemble forecasts.
• New ProbBins() function to compute probabilistic information of a forecast relative to a threshold or a quantile.
• Load() stops and warns if the masks provided are not in the correct grid.
• Load() didn’t apply, as expected, the same masks in observations as in experiments when possible. Now fixed.
• Enhancement in Clim() documentation.
• Enhancements in Load() and configuration file documentation.
• HadSLP dataset is now loadable

s2dverification 2.3.1 (Release date: 2015-03-09)

• Loading observations only fixed
• Loading only one leadtime fixed
• Loading a 2D variable when the first observation was not stored in file-per-dataset format fixed
• Parameter ‘ncores’ changed to ‘nprocs’
• Improvements in configuration file mechanism and documentation

s2dverification 2.3.0 (Release date: 2015-03-02)

• Configuration file mechanism to specify new dataset or variable paths, grids, etc.
• New parameters in Load() to specify maximum and minimum values.
• New supported dataset formats. See ‘?Load’ in R after loadings2dverificationfor more information.
• More efficient memory usage in Load() and usage of multiple parallel processes (faster).
• NetCDF4 + OPeNDAP support

s2dverification 2.2.0 (Release date: 2014-12-16)

• ACC provides confidence intervals obtained with bootstrap method
• Function to plot ACC score
• Function to plot variables on a polar stereographic projection
• Possibility of loading observations only
• Possibility to load more ice variables
• Adjustable significance level in the Corr function
• Adjustable number size in ColorBar

s2dverification 2.1.0 (Release date: 2014-01-23)

• Demo scripts ‘plot_timeseries.R’ and ‘plot_maps.R’ available in the ‘inst/doc’ directory in thes2dverificationrepository.
• Documentation on how to specify the grids and masks to the function Load() has been added to its help page, code and package manual.

s2dverification 2.0.0 (Release date: 2013-08-02)

• Use of the standard R package structure.
• Use of the google’s R style guide.
• Functions that involved RClim set of funcions have been kept apartfrom the package (AnimVsLTime, BlueRed, PlotMap, ProjMap) as well as the authors.
• New functions have been added: Alpha, EnoNew, Filter, FitAcfCoef, FitAutocor, GenSeries, Spectrum.
• Extended help.