downscaleR - v3.3.4

V3.3.4 (23 Jun 2023)

• Import fillGrid instead of fillGridDates
• Add LICENSE file

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by miturbide almost 2 years ago

downscaleR - v3.3.3 (05 Jul 2021)

• Minor bug fixes, documentation updates and enhancements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by miturbide almost 4 years ago

downscaleR - v3.3.2

v3.3.2 (09 Feb 2021)

• Minor internal changes in biasCorrection for improved memory usage
• Other minor changes and documentation updates
• New optional parameter in functions downscalePredict, downscaleTrain, donwscaleCV and downscale called simulate that permits to simulate from the distributional parameters infered from the GLMs

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jorgebanomedina about 4 years ago

downscaleR -

New in v3.3.1 (04 Jun 2020)

• Internal flag to force non-overlapping nearest-neighbour application within biasCorrection (recommended for chunking, depends on transformeR >= 2.0.1)
• New parameter in downscaleTrain: 'predict', to return the prediction in the train set
• Avoid dependency from lubridate
• Other minor changes and documentation updates

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 5 years ago

downscaleR - climate4R.datasets

v3.3.0 (23 May 2020)

• Update examples and other minor updates to include the new datasets from climate4R.datasets

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 5 years ago

downscaleR - v3.1.3

• New dependency: 'library sticky' for attributes containing variable information

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jorgebanomedina about 5 years ago

downscaleR -

New in v3.1.2

• Bug fix in `isimip' (wet-day frequency correction)
• Bug fix in downscaleTrain -- NaNs in single-site

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by anacv about 5 years ago

downscaleR - New in v3.1.1

• Bug fix in `downscaleCV'
• Improve the internal code of `downscaleChunk'
• Add qdm and dqm bias correction methods
• Bug fix in `biasCorrection'

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jorgebanomedina about 5 years ago

downscaleR - submission downscaleR GMDD paper

New in v3.1.0

• New downscaleChunk function, to handle large experiments by chunks
• downscale.cv renamed --> downscaleCV
• downscale.train renamed --> downscaleTrain
• downscale.predict renamed --> downscalePredict
• Other minor changes and documentation updates

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 6 years ago

downscaleR - IPCC AR6 FoD

v3.0.6 (16 Apr 2019)

• downscale.cv admits regular grids
• New method for bias correction: mva (Mean and Variance Adjustment)
• Other minor changes and documentation updates

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by miturbide about 6 years ago

downscaleR - v3.0.5

New in v3.0.5 (17 Dic 2018)

• Add important explanation in the biasCorrection documentation
• Bug fix in argument which.combine of prepareData
• Adapt biasCorrection to grids with a single dimension (time)
• NA handling in precipitation frequency adjustment in biasCorrection
• Code improvement

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by miturbide over 6 years ago

downscaleR - climate4R CITATION

v3.0.4 (23 Sep 2018)

• Add new CITATION
• Edited startup package message

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia over 6 years ago

downscaleR - v3.0.3

New in v3.0.3

• NA-s are now removed from observation data series when using the scaling method for biasCorrection.

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by miturbide over 6 years ago

downscaleR -

New in v3.0.2

• Replaced calls to bindGrid.time by bindGrid (the former not exported anymore)

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia over 6 years ago

downscaleR -

New in v3.0.1

• Improved downscale.cv input arguments, and its documentation. Added new option for leave-one-year-out cross validation
• Other documentation updates

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 7 years ago

downscaleR -

New in downscaleR v3

• New user interface for flexible definition of predictors (prepareData) and prediction data (prepareNewData).
• New method (neural networks) available for perfect-prog downscaling
• New workhorse function downscale for perfect-prog/MOS downscaling with different methods (GLM, Analogs..., more soon)
• Flexible method calibration/prediction via downscale.train and downscale.predict
• New helper function for flexible cross-validation experimental setups: downscale.cv
• Improved efficiency in biasCorrection, including a parallelization option
• New options for a more flexible parametric quantile mapping method design
• All changes in predictor/predictand definition have been double-checked against MeteoLab for consistency
• Other documentation updates and enhancements
• See the updates in the wiki for worked examples

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 7 years ago

downscaleR - SU-91

New in v2.0.4

• Attributes of downscaling methods are now global, instead of being stored within the Data element
• Other documentation updates and enhancements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia over 7 years ago

downscaleR - SPECS

New in v2.0.3

• Bug fix in biasCorrection
• Updated NAMESPACE imports
• Other documentation updates and enhancements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 8 years ago

downscaleR -

New in v2.0.2

• Added join.members option in biasCorrection to use the joint ensemble distribution for correction
• Other minor bug fixes and enhancements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 8 years ago

downscaleR -

New in v2.0-1

• Minor bug fix in ppModelSetup internal
• Other minor bug fixes and enhancements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia about 8 years ago

downscaleR -

New in V2.0-0

• Implementation of new bias correction methods
• Other minor bug fixes and enhancements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia about 8 years ago

downscaleR -

New in v1.3-2

• Bug fix in subsetGrid (for year subsets)
• Minor bug fixes and enhancements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 9 years ago

downscaleR -

New in v1.3-1

• Added internal make.namesin plot climatology to avoid duplicate panel names
• Bug fix in getYearsAsINDEX in annually aggregated grids
• Bug fix in dimnames attribute adjustment for single-year subsetting via subsetGrid
• New option in makeMultiGridto skip temporal consistency checks
• Other minor bug fixes and enhancements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 9 years ago

downscaleR -

New in 1.3-0

• New function filterGrid to apply time filters (moving averages...) to a grid
• New bridging function easyVeri2grid to convert easyVerification matrices to climatological grids
• Bug fix in attribute inheritance after member aggregation
• plotMeanGrid still available but deprecated. It has been superseded by plotClimatology
• Minor bug fix in makeMultiField to preserve the climatology attributes
• Other minor bug fixes and enhancements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 9 years ago

downscaleR -

New in 1.2-0

• New function plotClimatology for trellis climatological plots
• New option in GLM downscaling simulation for precipitation
• Other minor bug fixes and enhancements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 9 years ago

downscaleR -

New in v1.1-0

• Added new functionality in aggregateGrid for weighted areal averaging
• Other minor bug fixes and enhancements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 9 years ago

downscaleR - Bolzano-2016

New in v1.0-1

• Bug fix in nearest interpolation of rotated grids
• Bug fix in grid detrending in the presence of sparse missing data
• Internal change to export draw.world.lines() for visualizeR
• bubbleValidation and tercileValidation removed (superseded by visualizeR functions)
• Other minor bug fixes and enhancements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 9 years ago

downscaleR -

New in v1.0-0

• New function/object nomenclature (non-backwards compatibility)
  • The term 'field' is replaced by more generic 'grid'
• Fully independized from the loadeR bundle (yet highly recommended)
• Parallelization enabled (Linux and Mac OS only)
• Enhancements in perfect-prog downscaling
  • Parallelization option
  • Cross validation schemes
  • Monthly mean rescaling of simulation fields
• Function aggregateGrid for flexible temporal/member aggregations
• Function subsetGrid for flexible grid subsetting along selected dimensions
• Function detrendGrid for grid linear detrending
• Function climatology, for flexible climatology calculation
• Enhancements in interpGrid (formerly interpData) for regridding/interpolation:
  • Improved efficiency of nearest neighbour algorithm
  • New options for bilinear algorithm choice, including the fast interpolator from package akima
• Other minor bug fixes and enhancements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 9 years ago

downscaleR -

New in downscaleR 0.9-1

• New features:
  • Full integration with new packages for data access:
    • loadeR
    • loadeR.ECOMS
• Enhancements in bias correction:
  • Automatically set the common period of predictand and predictor objects in to calibrate the bias correction method
  • Use single station data as predictands
• Minor bug fix in bias correction of precipitation and other modifications (Thanks to: Yuanchao Xu)
• Other minor bug fixes and enhancements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia about 9 years ago

downscaleR -

downscaleR 0.8-2

• Fixed internal error with bias correction routines

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 10 years ago

downscaleR -

downscaleR 0.8-1

• Bug fix in retrieval of annual seasons (Jan-Dec)
• Other minor bug fixes and documentation improvements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 10 years ago

downscaleR -

downscaleR 0.8-0

• New Generalized Quantile Mapping method (Gutjahr and Heinemann 2013)
• New extrapolation feature of Quantile-quantile mapping method for unprecedent values in the simulation period
• Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 10 years ago

downscaleR -

What's new in v0.6-0?

• Several improvements in bias correction methods
• New netCDF-4 export feature
• Minor bug fixes

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia about 10 years ago

downscaleR -

What's new in version 0.5-2?

• New features for bias correction:
  • New options for multimember corrections
  • New moving-window option for reference period definition

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia over 10 years ago

downscaleR -

What's new?

• Bug fix in the retrieval of coordinates from 2D X-Y horizontal axis definitions

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia over 10 years ago

downscaleR -

What's new?

• Enhancements:
  • Support for combined-member bias correction (formerly this was done only member by member separately)
  • Optional flag in analog downscaling function to allow for analog date retrieval
• Minor bug fix: anyNA(foo) replaced by older any(is.na(foo)) for backwards compatibility until R 3.0.0
• New features:
  • Bubble validation plot for forecast skill visualization
  • Implementation of GLM downscaling method for precipitation (glimpr function)
  • login_TAP function: enables authentication for authorized users to the Santander Met Group THREDDS Data Server for remotely accesing several climate datasets with different access restrictions

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia over 10 years ago

downscaleR - v0.4-2 "SPECS workshop - II"

What's new?

This new minor version release includes some improvements proposed by the participants during the SPECS Workshop training sessions:

• Enhancement in plotMeanField to account for missing values
• Bug fix in quantile algorithm selection for qqmap adjustment
• Fixed errors in documentation
• Acknowledgements: Wietse Franssen (WUR), Jonas Bhend (MeteoSwiss) and Laurent Dubus (EDF)

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia over 10 years ago

downscaleR - v0.4-1 "SPECS workshop"

What's new

• New and improved function examples

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia over 10 years ago

downscaleR - v0.4-0

What's new?

• Implementation of analog method for perfect prog statistical
  downscaling: function analogs
• Forecast validation visualization tool: function tercileValidation
• Quick summary of available stations in station datasets using stationInfo
• New example datasets (reanalysis and seasonal forecast)
• Other minor bug fixes and enhancements

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia over 10 years ago

downscaleR - v0.3-0

What's new

• Integration of multi-member datasets (e.g. forecasts) in all the analysis steps
• Implementation of several calibration / bias correction methods
• PCA/EOF analysis
• Multifields fully operative:
  • Directly loadable from existing datasets via loadMultiField
  • A new constructor for multifields from fields has been included (makeMultiField), able to handle multimember fields
• Some modifications to outputs of loading functions:
  • Station data are now returned as a 2D matrix rather than a data.frame
  • New attributes included in field/multifield data providing extended metadata
• Minor bug fixes
• Other enhancements in code and package documentation

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia over 10 years ago

downscaleR - New v0.2-1 patch version

What's new

• Corrects a bug allowing the retrieval of non-standard variables with one single vertical level (gives support to variables stored at the SMG-THREDDS)
• Minor error corrections in documentation

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 11 years ago

downscaleR -

What's new?

• New function login_SMG, providing http authentication to the Santander Met Group THREDDS Data Server for accessing remotely stored climate databases

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 11 years ago

downscaleR -

What's new

• Bug fix. Solved a SSL certificate problem for automated package version control/install on attach
  Thanks to Mano Parzakonis for the solution:
  http://www.r-bloggers.com/a-tiny-rcurl-headache/

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 11 years ago

downscaleR -

First stable release (still bound to changes)

Major features

• Load Station Data in standard ASCII format
• Load Gridded datasets
• (Fast) Grid interpolators: nearest neighbors and bilinear weights
• Support of datasets (included multi-member hindcast data) from the ECOMS User Data Gateway via the ecomsUDG.Raccess package

Major features for next package release (Foreseen by next 25 Jul 2014)

• Implementation of several bias correction methods
• Implementation of some Perfect-Prog downscaling methods (Analogs ...)

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 11 years ago

downscaleR -

Preliminary release for testing purposes

Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - R
Published by jbedia almost 11 years ago