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• API changes

  • removing the "iomanager.interpolate(... Grid2DObject)" call since the "iomanager.getMeteoData(... Grid2DObject)" call should be used instead (for consistency)

• Documentation and packaging

  • more cross-links
  • obsolete content deleted
  • various updates and fixes
  • packaging improvements (specially osX)

• Bug fixes

  • fixed a bug when calculating sunrise and sunset, impacting the potential radiation generator
  • bug fix in date rounding (when rounding to a day in non-GMT)
  • bug fix in Unsworth generator
  • bug fix when reading geolocalization
  • reading ARC headers case-insensitive (in order to support R created files)
  • fixed a case sensitivity bug in A3DIO
  • UTM bug: zones xxN were (wrongly) supposed to be in the southern hemipshere...

• Plugins

  • new GSNIO plugin based on REST API
  • GeotopIO: fixed wrong units for atmospheric pressure
  • GeotopIO: Read SWdirect, SWdiffuse, CloudFactor and HeaderCloudSWTransmissivity
  • support discontinuous station numbering in GRIBIO

• Processing Elements, Data Generators

  • new processing element (HNW_DISTRIBUTE) to redistribute precipitation over past time steps (for example, daily precipitation provided in an otherwise hourly file)
  • add a suppression filter
  • undercatch corrections for the Chinese Standard Precipitation Gauge and for the shielded Geonor gauge
  • Forland1996 undercatch correction and specific coefficients for Davos Weissflujoch
  • new data generator: Brutsaert for clear sky ILWR

• Cleanup, optimizations

  • full rewrite of precipitation re-accumulation. All cases now properly work
  • code cleanup (size_t warnings, added some const/static)
  • new, optimized parsing of doubles in strings, about 3 times faster
  • speed optimizations in libsmet
  • speed optimization in BufferedIOHandler (removing unnecessary vector copy)

• Various improvements and new features

  • data quality output that can be toggled at compile time
  • LIDW spatial interpolation method that perfoms IDW on a subset of the stations is working again
  • change the epsilon used for equality tests
  • new hillshade algorithm added to DEMObject