v2.9.0

New Features

• Add new aci and aerosol activation metrics from ARM Diags v3 by @chengzhuzhang (collaborating with ARM infrastructure group with contribution from Xiaojian Zheng @lannyzxj, @EmmyChengTao and Shaocheng Xie. )in #679
• Mixed phase partition LCF diagram by @chengzhuzhang with @zyuying, @yunpengshan2014 and @Jiwengithub in #675
• Add aerosol global metrics benchmarks file developed by E3SM Aerosol Working Group @susburrows and @kaizhangpnl , and implemented by @chengzhuzhang and @mahf708 in #683
• Use total (interstitial and cloud-borne) aerosols directly from 2D burdens by @mahf708 in #682
• Add GPCP3.2 precipiation data and replace v2.2 by @chengzhuzhang in #690
• Add QREFHT and U10 comparison with ERA5 variables by @chengzhuzhang in #688
• Support relative difference plot in zonal mean 2d set by @chengzhuzhang in #651
• Additional variables to QBO json output files by @golaz in #646

CDAT Migration:

• CDAT Migration Phase 1: Replace cdp.cdp_run by @tomvothecoder in #641
• CDAT Migration Phase 1 - ReplaceCDPParameter by @tomvothecoder in #638
• CDAT Migration Phase 1 - Replace cdp_parser.CDPParser by @tomvothecoder in #650

Other Changes:

• Update Acknowledgement and Features Contribution in README by @chengzhuzhang in #692
• Bump dependencies in conda env yml files by @tomvothecoder in #644
• Increment CACHE_NUMBER to fix conda envs by @tomvothecoder in #645
• fix typo in aerosol budget printout by @mahf708 in #676
• Update quick guide for perlmutter; update diagnostics paths from mache by @chengzhuzhang in #691
• Fix numpy.int --> int by @xylar in #694
• Change workflow to mamba by @forsyth2 in #693
• Simplify the conda env yml files by @tomvothecoder in #696
• Fix release workflow not copying docs for latest tags by @tomvothecoder in #698
• Fix dir ref in release workflow by @tomvothecoder in #699
• Fix segfault issue with newest shapely and esmpy by @xylar in #715
• Import shapely but not esmpy in main package by @xylar in #722
• update enviroment variable by @chengzhuzhang in #725
• Add e3sm_diags import by @chengzhuzhang in #727

New Contributors

• @mahf708 made their first contribution in #676

Full Changelog: v2.8.0...v2.9.0

v2.9.0rc5

What's Changed

• update enviroment variable by @chengzhuzhang in #725
• Add e3sm_diags import by @chengzhuzhang in #727
• Bump to 2.9.0rc5 by @chengzhuzhang in #730

Full Changelog: v2.9.0rc4...v2.9.0rc5

v2.9.0rc4

What's Changed

• Import shapely but not esmpy in main package by @xylar in #722
• Bump to 2.9.0rc4 by @chengzhuzhang in #724

Full Changelog: v2.9.0rc3...v2.9.0rc4

v2.9.0rc3

What's Changed

• Fix segfault issue with newest shapely and esmpy by @xylar in #715
• Bump to 2.9.0rc3 by @chengzhuzhang in #717

Full Changelog: v2.9.0rc2...v2.9.0rc3

v2.9.0rc2

What's Changed

• Fix dir ref in release workflow by @tomvothecoder in #699
• Use total (interstitial and cloud-borne) aerosols directly from 2D burdens by @mahf708 in #682
• Bump to v2.9.0rc2 by @chengzhuzhang in #710

Full Changelog: v2.9.0rc1...v2.9.0rc2

v2.9.0rc1

Bump to 2.9.0rc1 (#697)

v2.8.0

New Features

• Add MERRA2 aerosol data for AOD diagnostics by @chengzhuzhang (with help from @yfenganl and @mingxuanwupnnl )in #624
• Add Aerosol Budget Tables (set name = aerosol_budget) by @chengzhuzhang @tomvothecoder (with help from @kaizhangpnl, @susburrows, @TaufiqHassan, @xuezhengllnl, @keziming )in #625
• add example running with zppy @chengzhuzhang #622

Other Changes

• Fix matplotlib rotation bug by @tomvothecoder #622
• Update GitHub Actions for changing to main branch by @forsyth2 @tomvothecoder in #619 and #621
• Updated examples by @forsyth2 in #618
• Remove cdtime as a dependency by @tomvothecoder in #627

Full Changelog: v2.7.0...v2.8.0

v2.8.0rc1 Aerosols

New Features

• Add MERRA2 aerosol data for AOD diagnostics by @chengzhuzhang (with help from @yfenganl and @mingxuanwupnnl )in #624
• Add Aerosol Budget Tables by @chengzhuzhang @tomvothecoder (with help from @kaizhangpnl, @susburrows, @TaufiqHassan, @xuezhengllnl, @keziming )in #625
• add example running with zppy @chengzhuzhang #622

Other Changes

• Fix matplotlib rotation bug by @tomvothecoder #622
• Update GitHub Actions for changing to main branch by @forsyth2 @tomvothecoder in #619 and #621
• Updated examples by @forsyth2 in #618
• Remove cdtime as a dependency by @tomvothecoder in #627

Full Changelog: v2.7.0...v2.8.0rc1

v2.7.0

New Features:

• Added scatter plots for comparing annual mean long-term Absorption Optical Depth (AOD) Aerosol Absorption Optical Depth (AAOD) at 550 nm from AERONET measurements. Scripts and data contributed by @yfenganl
• Add cmip6 comparison box whisker plot. Scripts contributed by @golaz
• Add CMIP6 models + E3SM v1 v2, AMIP and HISTORICAL runs as baseline for box whisker plots and Taylor Diagrams
• Support Model only analysis in lat-lon set
• Add lat_lon_land annd lat_lon_river drivers and viewers supported in the main viewer.
• Integrate in ELM land variable pre-processing and MOSART river variables for lat-lon model vs model default run. (contributed by @darincomeau @jenniferholm and @hydrotian )
• Add a standalone script to generate a summary plot of E3SM diagnostics. by @ambrad
• Included a Metrics checker to check consistency between two lat-lon run.

Enhanced Features:

• Add AODDUST to lat_lon plots (model only)
• Add Q to zonal_mean_2d plots
• Add TREFMNAV/tasmin TREFMXAV/tasmax to core set
• Replace ERA Interim with ERA5 in core sets
• Update to MACv2 for AOD at 550nm diags

Major Fixes:

• Set regrid method to bilinear for a subset of variables with masks or missing data
• Fix and Enhancement for Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation
• Fix extreme values of Albedo from obs values over high latitudes by masking high latitude in lat-lon plot

Other Updates:

• Update DevOps tooling; Update black to fix click ImportError
• Add xarray and mache to conda env dependencies and remove dask
• Update input data path; nco invocation in pre-processing
• Fix FileNotFoundError for log file

Contributors

• @chengzhuzhang @tomvothecoder @golaz @forsyth2 @ambrad @yfenganl @darincomeau @jenniferholm and @hydrotian

Full Changelog: v2.6.1...v2.7.0

v2.7.0rc2

Merge pull request #604 from E3SM-Project/v2.7.0rc2

Bump to 2.7.0rc2