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MPTRAC - v3.2

Changes in this release

Documentation & Metadata

Updated README, quick-start instructions, MkDocs and Doxygen manuals, application documentation, model-physics documentation, references, CITATION.cff, and DEPENDENCIES.md.
Clarified example workflows, mesoscale diffusion, compression APIs, meteorological model-level limitations, UTM-grid usage, and dd_test comparison semantics.
Added CLI help messages for tools, a Matrix chat room link, AGENTS.md, and updated MPTRAC architecture and module diagrams.
Fixed Doxygen warnings, parameter descriptions, documentation deployment, and various script and interface descriptions.

Build System, Dependencies & CI/CD

Updated Makefiles, compiler flags, library build scripts, dependency definitions, and GitHub Actions workflows.
Improved MPI compiler-wrapper handling and propagated compile-time dimension overrides to the Fortran interface.
Added and strengthened CI tests for the Fortran wrapper, LZ4, compression configurations, GPU builds, and domain decomposition.
Upgraded ZSTD from version 1.5.5 to 1.5.7 and enabled pthread support.
Fixed compilation issues involving the Fortran wrapper, CMS, PCK+ZSTD, MPI, NVHPC, GPU code, and optional dependencies.
Improved build defaults, wrapper rebuild behavior, coverage builds, and GPU memory pinning.

Code Quality & Refactoring

Added const qualifiers, cleaned up interfaces, comments, pragmas, logging, timers, and obsolete conditional compilation.
Refactored shared compression helpers, meteorological writers, CLI initialization, and utility-program setup.
Unified compression diagnostics and simplified codec-specific logging.
Removed obsolete warnings, debug statements, NVTX markers, redundant flags, and unsupported code paths.
Improved error messages and corrected stale comments, declarations, and type definitions.

Domain Decomposition

Reworked domain decomposition to use index-based particle ownership and MPI all-to-all communication.
Added dd_push() implementations for CPUs and GPUs as an alternative to repeated particle sorting.
Replaced the fixed particle buffer with a dynamically resized buffer.
Revised particle communication interfaces, MPI datatype registration, DD grid initialization, and GPU memory allocation.
Improved DD netCDF reading, halo setup, longitude handling, particle ordering, and support for MET_CONVENTION=1.
Added GPU support, edge-case handling, guarding pragmas, local test execution, and improved DD comparison tests.
Fixed issues involving particle quantities, vertical velocity checks, sorting types, missing domain-decomposition calls, and CPU/GPU consistency.

Physics, Numerics & Algorithms

Revised horizontal, mesoscale, PBL, and vertical turbulent diffusion schemes.
Added drift and density corrections to vertical diffusion and improved reflection at the surface and model top.
Refined the Hanna-style PBL turbulence closure, boundary handling, initialization, and optional control parameters.
Adopted the ECMWF heat-flux sign convention and extended GRIB surface-data reading for PBL closure fields.
Added PBL-relative particle initialization and density-weighted initialization through the new INIT_RHO parameter.
Added validation of DT_MOD against DT_MET and updated the met_check_dt utility.
Updated pressure-level definitions, wind defaults, wind-field generation, and well-mixed tracer sampling.
Disabled the unsupported ADVECT = 0 option and fixed geopotential, KPP, and related physics code.

UTM Coordinates & Output Timing

Added support for meteorological data and simulations on UTM grids.
Introduced the MET_COORD_TYPE configuration option and UTM reference coordinates for climatology-based physics.
Updated atmospheric initialization and particle splitting for UTM coordinates.
Added UTM documentation, validation, logging, safeguards, and dedicated test cases.
Added support for sub-minute trajectory output.
Trajectory and gridded output filenames now always include a seconds component.

I/O, Data Handling & Formats

Added a netCDF trajectory export option to the web runner.
Refactored the wind tool to use the shared meteorological writer and auxiliary fields.
Added a time dimension and additional surface and boundary-layer fields to generated wind data.
Improved meteorological availability checks, data validation, model-level handling, and netCDF layout support.
Updated ERA5.1 retrieval scripts for the 2000–2006 period.
Added a flag to convert surface geopotential to surface height.
Updated reference data and example outputs to reflect revised file naming, physics, diffusion, compression, and particle ordering.

Compression

Added LZ4 support for compressed meteorological data and tuned its default acceleration.
Added optional PCK+ZSTD recompression and configurable multithreaded ZSTD compression via MET_ZSTD_NWORKERS.
Added level-dependent scaling for ZFP and SZ3 compression.
Introduced codec-specific control arrays for CMS, ZFP, and SZ3 precision settings.
Retuned the default ZFP, SZ3, ZSTD, and strong-compression settings, particularly for ERA5 data.
Improved handling of near-zero relative tracer deviations and compression-rate diagnostics.
Revised compression interfaces, helper functions, tests, reference outputs, logging, and round-trip validation.
Fixed CMS, ZSTD, ZFP, SZ3, and PCK-related compilation and documentation issues.

GPU & Performance

Improved GPU support for domain decomposition, particle communication, dynamic buffers, diffusion tests, and sorting.
Added a fallback for Thrust-based sorting on GPUs.
Revised GPU memory allocation and fixed memory-pinning and timer issues.
Added CPU and GPU execution paths for particle pushing and DD edge cases.
Updated GPU test datasets and associated reference results.
Cleaned up GPU pragmas, compiler flags, and conditional compilation.

Fortran Interface

Fixed the Fortran wrapper ABI, declarations, string lengths, configuration fields, and generated documentation.
Added support for MET_COORD_TYPE, UTM reference coordinates, and compression control arrays.
Updated interfaces for revised MPTRAC APIs and compile-time dimensions.
Added a dedicated Fortran-wrapper CI test and ensured the interface is rebuilt during testing.

Tests & Examples

Refreshed Python example plots, documentation, simulation outputs, and reference datasets.
Aligned Python examples with current MPTRAC output and clarified the example README workflow.
Added tests for UTM grids, sub-minute trajectory output, DD push behavior, local DD execution, GPU edge cases, and updated diffusion schemes.
Updated compression, CMS, GPU, trajectory, wind, and domain-decomposition reference data.
Improved dd_test local mode, tabular comparison behavior, particle ordering, and documentation.

Web Runner & User Interface

Modernized the web runner interface, layout, form labels, presets, and visual hierarchy.
Added local test mode, selectable output quantities, netCDF trajectory export, and improved dataset validation.
Added meteorological data-availability checks and clearer guidance through the submission and execution workflow.
Improved input validation, runtime messaging, progress handling, and stale-modal cleanup.
Refined presets, default values, copy, form organization, and dataset-specific warnings.

Tracer Chemistry & Specialized Modules

Added a new module for radionuclide tracers.
Updated tracer quantity naming and related loss-rate handling.
Fixed KPP chemistry code and updated associated build and documentation components.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport - C
Published by lars2015 about 1 month ago

MPTRAC - v3.1

Changes in this release

Documentation & Metadata

Updated README, documentation, mkdocs manual, model-physics.md, references, CITATION.cff, and DEPENDENCIES.md.
Added quick-start README and links to the MPTRAC Web Runner.
Fixed Doxygen documentation and script descriptions.

Build System, Dependencies & CI/CD

Updated build scripts, requirements, dependencies, and compilation conditionals.
Fixed MPI, OpenMP, OpenACC, CPU, and GPU compilation issues.
Added and updated CI tests (Fortran wrapper, GRIB, ZFP, ZSTD, GPU).
Fixed eccodes, SZ3, ZFP installation paths.
Removed obsolete dependencies (CUDA runtime for Thrust, curl).
Ignored HDF5 build check failures where appropriate.

Code Quality & Refactoring

General code cleanup, formatting, const qualifiers, and style fixes.
Unified error handling and revised logging/info messages.
Removed unused variables, imports, deprecated types (e.g. bool), and excessive debugging code.
Improved memory handling and cleanup routines.

Domain Decomposition (DD)

Major redesign and stabilization of domain decomposition
Introduced dd_t, ctl->dd, dd_init(), and module_dd.
Refactored MPI communication, requests, sorting buffers, halos, and periodic boundaries.
Fixed DD bugs (poles, halos, memory handling, CPU/GPU builds).
Added conditional compilation, DD tests, and Makefile targets.
Improved initialization, logging, and neighbor handling.

Physics, Numerics & Algorithms

Revised advection schemes (etadot/zetadot), interpolation, eta-level handling, and time-step computation.
Improved NRMSE calculation and compression-rate metrics.
Added fast pressure-to-eta conversion.
Updated diffusivity control parameters and vertical coordinate determination.
Fixed geopotential and other physics routines.

I/O, Data Handling & Formats

Added netCDF parallel I/O with additional I/O timing.
Improved GRIB and netCDF readers (date/time handling, flexible vertical levels).
Updated CSI writing and merged ensemble/non-ensemble routines.
Improved working-directory cleanup and periodic maintenance.

Compression

Revised CMS, SZ3, ZSTD, and ZFP compression code.
Added SZ3 compression for meteorological data.
Added new ZFP control parameters and fixed compression-ratio calculations.

GPU & Performance

Ported core routines to GPUs (particles↔atmosphere, DD, advection).
Added GPU-compatible DD (initial working version).
Improved OpenMP scheduling, sorting fallbacks (GSL/Thrust), and performance logging.
Added experimental GPU pragmas and alternative communication paths.

Tests & Examples

Added and updated tests for DD, GPU, GRIB, meteo data, and trajectories.
Updated examples, simulation settings, plots, and visualization options.
Added quick-look plots and parallelized their generation.

Web Runner & User Interface

Updated input forms, plot settings, defaults, and output options.
Added play/stop controls, sliders, runtime warnings, and contact buttons.
Added and updated support for ECMWF (IFS, AIFS), NCEP GFS, ERA5, JRA-3Q, and JRA-55.
Fixed dataset paths, disabled unsupported reanalyses, and improved data retrieval scripts.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport - C
Published by lars2015 8 months ago

MPTRAC - v3.0

Changes in this release:

Added JOSS paper.
Fixed name of timer of module_chem_grid_ens().
Update doxygen and mkdocs documentation.
Fixed Fortran wrapper.
Fixed GPU code for ensemble output.
Update write_csi_ens() for esemble processing of some scores
Added error handling to pressure level definitions
Update CMS code.
Update ERA5 retrieve script.
Fix incorrect Fortran Interface for ctl.met_pbl_min etc.
Added check of pressure on model levels.
Added alternative variable names for hybrid level coefficients.
Added control parameter MET_ZSTD_LEVEL to set compression level.
Added check of total number of trajectories.
Added link to AI documentation.
Added code for web runner.
Fixed quantity definition of snow water content.
Renamed dependencies file.
Update interoper_test.
Added template for pull requests.
Added dependencies.md file.
Update bug report template.
Create CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
Added contributing guidelines.
Set dynamic linking as default option in Makefile.
Fixed interpolation error in diabatic advection.
Fix Fortran wrapper.
Added const qualifiers.
Update check of lower boundary in module_advect().
Update cms_test.
Fixed bug in INTPOL_SPACE_ALL macro.
Added function to check longitude and latitude range of meteo data.
New option to use a and b half level coefficients.
Modified check of grid level spacing.
Enabled irregular latitude spacing (Gaussian grid).
Added control parameters for model level a and b coefficients.
Include high-level functions in Fortran wrapper.
Added option to calculate pressure on model levels.
Update KPP test.
Revised vertical interpolation on model levels.
Integration of cache_t comparison between Fortran and C
Added documentation for high-level interace.
Moved GPU memory updates to mptrac_init().
Added meteo data to functions for device/host memory updates.
Added high-level functions to update device and host memory.
Fix rounding error of lon-lat grid in met- and tropo-tools.
Added high-level functions to allocate and free memory for MPTRAC.
Added a function to run a single time step with MPTRAC.
Changed memory allocation of control parameters.
Fix MPI code.
Added high-level interface functions for MPTRAC.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport - C
Published by lars2015 about 1 year ago

MPTRAC - v2.8

Updates in this release:

Update list of contributors.
Update Makefile.
Update README.md
Update doxygen docs.
Revised timers.
Moved random numbers to cache struct.
Update to new branch of cmultiscale.
Update cmultiscale log message.
Extended netCDF meteo output.
Checked and revised meteo file output.
Fixed calculation of Langevin equation.
Added option for vertical mixing in the PBL.
Moved Python venv to working directories.
Added new control parameter DIFFUSION to selection diffusion scheme.
Added surface stress and heat flux to meteo variables.
Added warnings regarding use of DP2DZ and DZ2DP macros.
Improved method to calculate PBL height with stability approach.
Added option to set diffusivities in the PBL.
Fix OpenACC pragma for module_position().
Selected Squares as default random number generator.
Removed REFLECT flag, always enforce reflection of particles.
Removed ADVECT_ZETA_PRESS_MODULES flag, enforce p-to-zeta interpolation.
Moved random number generation to physics modules.
New control parameter WET_DEPO_SO2_PH to calculate H_eff for SO2.
Removed WRAPPER flag in Makefile. Use make wrapper to compile.
Modified compilation of dynamic library.
Changed back to static compilation by default.
Update library build script.
Fix compilation of zfp library.
Modified thresholds for detecting cloud top and cloud bottom pressure.
Added flag for reading CAPE and CIN from meteo file.
Revised code to read or calculate PBL.
Include README for Fortran wrapper
Update python plot scripts.
Update get_era5.sh for new CDO version.
Fix GFS retrieval script.
Update README.md for meteo data retrieval.
Added test case for cmultiscale.
Removed benchmarking project.
Added szlib to libs.
Added notes for zlib and zstd compression for netCDF.
Changed netCDF quantization method to Granular BitRound.
Added compression for netCDF grid files.
Added compression for netCDF atmospheric data files.
Disabled quantization for meteo surface data.
Made netCDF4 default file type. Added compression of netCDF meteo files.
Extended write_met() to write meteo data as netCDF file.
Modifed compile flags for coverage testing.
Update library build script and update to zfp v1.0.1.
Update KPP code.
Added check of time range to module_advect_init() and module_chem_init().
Update of code to read CLaMS meteo data.
Update reading of ZETA_DOT.
Added helper function to read photolysis rates.
Added timers to met_conv.
Update read_met_pv().
Update OH climatology code.
Optimized cart2geo() and geo2cart().
Added DEG2RAD and RAD2DEG macros.
Fix longitude-latitude grid in cmultiscale.
Added Wu et al. (2023) to reference list.
Enabled tests for Ubuntu 24.04.
Sort control parameters into groups.
Removed -mcodel flag for nvc.
Modifed checks of array dimensions.
Modified maximum array sizes for meteo data.
Removed static array to enable larger meteo fields.
add intel compiler, add intel and nvx compiler for fortran wrapper
Added code for MPI broadcast of large data.
Added Fortran wrapper.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport - C
Published by lars2015 over 1 year ago

MPTRAC - v2.7

Added boundary checks for reading compressed meteo data.
Added control parameters for cmultiscale compression.
Added compression rate to cmultiscale log messages.
Added check of pressure profiles.
Added option to calculate kinematic trajectories using model level meteo data.
Added interpolation functions for meteo data on model levels.
Update write_csi() for the particle filter.
Merged module_advect() and module_advect_diabatic().
Revised initialization functions.
Added code for MPI broadcasting of meteo data.
Added RWC and SWC as separate meteo data variables.
Modified checks of VERT_COORD_AP and VERT_COORD_MET.
Added Makefile target lib to create dynamic or static library of MPTRAC.
Renamed libtrac.c/h to mptrac.c/h.
Replaced call to gsl_finite() by isfinite().
Removed calls of GSL macros.
Fixed displaying of equations in doxygen.
Added example on creating ParaView output to projects.
Added function module_press_init to factorize the code.
Moved all modules, static variables and macros from trac.c to libtrac.c.
Added script to retrieve ERA5 data.
Modified code to read meteo data on model levels.
Added script to retrieve NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis 1 data.
Added script to download GFS forecasts.
Added script to retrieve GFS forecasts.
Added script to retrieve MERRA-2 data.
Started integrating cmultiscale.
Modified ZFP compression settings.
Added clang compiler to Makefile.
Added project directory for benchmarking.
Added selection based on potential temperature to atm_select.
Modified GPU offloading of mixing module.
Added GPU compilation for gcc.
Added COMPILER flag to Makefile.
Revised mixing code.
Check fix of CURAND compilation flag.
Update tropopause climatology file format.
Added new tool tropo_clim to calculate tropopause climatology.
Added CLaMS photolysis data.
Added new function read_met_polar_winds() to fix winds at the poles.
Revised timers. Added flag for GPU memory pinning.
Added level definitions for ml2pl operator.
Added const qualifiers.
Add new tool atm2grid.c.
Minor change on module_mixing and kpp_chem.
Update TUV photolysis data of o2,o3,h2o2.
Use a finer pressure grid in photolysis data.
Modified pragmas for module_mixing_help().
Refined grid levels at the bottom for predefined levels.
Update user manual.
Add dt_kpp as time step size for KPP chemistry.
Added checks of meteo data layout for packed netCDF files.
Implemented different meteo data layouts for 2-D variables.
Added control parameter RNG_TYPE to select random number generator.
Added counter-based random number generator.
Code cleaning.
Modified control parameters for reading netCDF meteo files.
Build zlib with -fPIC flag.
Added timer for read_met_monotonoize().
Update build.sh.
Add python plot scripts.
Update documentation.
Update GPU test case.
Revised interpolation method in convection module.
Added total column ozone to output of met tools.
Fixed compilation error on JUWELS Cluster.
Add standard deviation output to write_grid.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport - C
Published by lars2015 about 2 years ago

MPTRAC - v2.6

Update CITATION.cff file.
Simplified the example for the Puyehue case.
Removed OpenMP quicksort algorithm.
Update documentation.
Update test cases.
Bugfix: Correcting CLaMS filenames.
Integrated photolysis rates in climatological data struct.
Modify the dimension of sza to unit rad.
Switch the photolysis rate to Roeth's scheme.
Added tuv photolysis data.
Added check of surface pressure to read_met_ozone().
Added total column ozone to interpolation functions.
Added function to calculate total column ozone.
Removed uvw cache for diabatic calculations. It needs further considerations.
Added a test to spot changes in the diabatic calculations.
Added parameter to read meteo data in different conventions.
Added interoper_test, the part for testing IO of atmospheric data.
Added the diabatic transport scheme.
Added option to select pre-defined pressure level sets.
Optimized calculation of solar zenith angle.
Optimized tracer chemistry code.
Fixed compilation warning for ZFP code.
Obsolete output omitted for make check
Bugfix zfp code.
Added const qualifiers.
Update README.md
Renamed variables of climatological data.
Update unit strings for volume mixing ratios.
Fix for NVIDIA C compiler.
Added control parameters for ZFP compression.
Update grid output to include quantity mean values.
Add compilation of KPP in build.sh
Added macro for particle loop.
Changed group assignment of sorting timer.
Fix in module_chemgrid.
Check conflict of THRUST and STATIC flags in Makefile.
Update library build script.
Added an overview image showing the MPTRAC modules.
Added CLaMS radical species files with concentrations converted to vmr.
Removed redundant mixing of O3 in module_mixing().
Revised code for tracer concentrations and fixes of GPU code.
Fix for KPP code.
Added new function clim_ts() and clim_zm() to interpolate climatological data.
Update references.
Read HNO3 climatology from file.
Update GOZCARDS data files.
Added module_h2o2_chem() and module_chemgrid() to trac_test.
Added language/locales setting to run scripts.
Renamed chem_test into kpp_test.
Added module_mixing to trac_test.
Added check of KPP flag in trac.
Merged module_h2o2_chemgrid() and module_kpp_chemgrid() into module_chemgrid().
Revised atm_init to initialize for age of air calculation.
Revised control parameter defaults for boundary condition module.
Fixed boundary conditions for CCl4 and SF6.
Removed CFC-13 from tracer chemistry.
Added code to calculate age of air.
Revised reaction rates of chemical tracers.
Added trends for CFCs and N2O boundary conditions.
Added climatological time series of CFCs, N2O, and SF6.
Revised preprocessor directives for KPP.
Fix OpenACC pragma for sza_calc().
Added control switch TRACER_CHEM for first-order tracer chemistry.
Changed default values for mixing module.
Added module for inter-parcel mixing.
Add o3 climatology from CAMS reanalysis.
Removed setting of GPU vector length.
Changed ordering of calls to boundary condition module in trac.
Added VTK output to trac_test.
Added new quantities for H2O2, HO2, and O(1D) number concentrations.
Added HO2 and O(1D) to output of met tools.
Revised clim_oh() function to use clim_var().
Removed clim_h2o2() function.
Implemented a separate function for VTK output.
Modified GPU vector length of advection kernel.
Added dry deposition to trac_test.
Revised code for reading species defaults.
Added vtk output for particle data.
Fix for OH diurnal correction.
Added const qualifier to locate functions.
Revised function call for clim_var().
Update OH climatology code.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport - C
Published by lars2015 almost 3 years ago

MPTRAC - v2.5

update README.md
update doxygen and mkdocs documentation
fix doxygen and mkdocs actions
new module for KPP chemistry
new test case for KPP chemistry
fix for reading/writing binary data
update ERA-Interim netCDF data files.
fixed code for reading SST.
added cloud cover, land-sea mask, and sea surface temperature to meteo data
added code to read relative humidity as meteo input
implemented "sp" and "SP" as additional netCDF variable names for surface pressure.
update netCDF calls
added function to read time from filename
added a function to read kernel data file
added a function to extract weighting factors from kernel function
added kernel function to CSI output, grid output, and sample output
update example
revised sorting code and thrustsort wrapper
added a logo
revised dry deposition module
use (WMO, 2018) to calculate T_ice
added option to terminate trajectories at boundaries of local meteo data sets
added surface pressure and height to tropo tools
added a function to calculate buoyancy frequency
added checks to chemgrid module.
added a tool to add CAPE data to CLaMS netCDF files
updates of module_h2o2_chem()
updates of module_chemgrid
revised netCDF grid output
added new criteria for boundary conditions
update GPU test data.
changed convection module default parameter settings

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport - C
Published by lars2015 about 3 years ago

MPTRAC - v2.4

Update doxygen manual.
Bugfix of layer packing code.
Update of H2O2 chemistry.
Fix library build script.
Added OpenMP parallelization to write_grid().
Revised wet deposition module.
Revised ensemble output. Added a test case.
Added CSI output to trac_test.
Revised write_csi() function.
Added GPU test case.
Added new function to read observation data.
Revised profile output including test case.
Update CITATION.cff
Update codecov.yml, doxygen.yml and tests.yml.
Revised sample output. Extended trac_test.
Fix of mass loss calculation.
Added netCDF output for grid data.
Added mkdocs manual for RTD.
Added tests for compression of meteo data.
Added macros to access 2-D and 3-D arrays.
Added netCDF I/O for air parcel data.
Revised tropopause climatology code.
Revised HNO3 climatology code.
Revised advection code.
Added Makefile flag for UVW cache.
Fixed meteo filename extensions.
Convective mixing based on density.
Added option to redefine physical constants.
Bug fix for backward trajectories.
Added vertical velocity to wind tool.
Added timer statistics.
Added tests of tropopause code.
Added control parameter MET_NC_SCALE to check scaling factor and offset of meteo files.
Added quantities to track mass loss.
Added control parameter MET_CLOUD_MIN to specify minimum CLWC and CIWC.
Added macros for netCDF.
Revised I/O functions for atmospheric data.
Added tool to calculate zonal men tropopause statistics.
Update wet deposition module.
Added H2O2 chemistry module.
Added new quantity IDX for air parcel index.
Added Thrust library for sorting.
Added netcdf4 reading and writing functions similar to CLaMS.
Updates of wet deposition module.
Added new quantity RHO for density of air.
Renamed quantities RP and RHOP for particle radius and density.
Add asyncIO (to be tested).
Revised sorting code.
Added GOZCARDS climatology data files.
Moved example to project directory.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport - C
Published by lars2015 over 3 years ago

MPTRAC - v2.3

Added new function read_clim() to read climatological data files.
Added linear trends to boundary condition module.
Renamed group timers.
Update GPU code.
Read CLaMS data, save as netcdf files
Tentative interpolations in zeta coordinates and functions for diabatic simulations.
Added H2O as a species.
Added module for sorting of particles.
Added zstd compression.
Added zfp compression.
Revised code for mesoscale diffusion.
Added cache for wind data.
Added checks for binary data.
Added code to read/write binary meteo data.
Added tools test.
Update Makefile. Renamed lapse and subgrid tools.
Added tests for atm tools.
Added option for multiple test cases.
Update bug_report.md
Update feature_request.md
Added test for code coverage.
Added citation file.
Added cppcheck. Fixed minor issues.
Add Codacy badge
Minor fixes (SoftWipe analysis).
Added 4th-order Runge-Kutta method for advection.
Added control parameter REFLECT for reflection of particles at top and bottom boundary.
Added check of CONV_CAPE and COVE_CIN to met tools.
Added output of the number of data points in met tools.
Changed calculations of mean values in met tools.
Added CIN threshold to convection module.
Added code to calculate convective inhibition (CIN).
Added control parameter CONV_WMAX to limit vertical velocities.
Update mesoscale diffusion.
Added option to initialize with cosine bell in atm_init.
Added tool for synthetic wind fields.
Changed code to calculate standard deviations.
Modified OpenMP scheduling for read_met_help().
Take into account fill values and missing values in meteo netCDF files.
Modified code to read packed netCDF meteo files.
Added control parameter MET_CACHE for preloading meteo data into disk cache.
Use disk cache for meteo data.
Revised example to include convection, wet deposition, and boundary conditions.
Update to HDF5 v1.12.1 and netCDF v4.8.1.
Added module for timesteps.
Modified spatial interpolation methods.
Replaced pgcc by nvc.
Added group timers.
Added log message for read_atm() and write_atm().
Added output of git version number.
Modified time filter for atmospheric data output.
Modified get_met() function to ignore DIRECTION flag.
Added tool "tnat" to calculate PSC temperatures. Fix for negative H2O vmr.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport - C
Published by lars2015 about 4 years ago

MPTRAC - v2.2

Update met tools (additional output variables).
Bugfix for latitudes in met_zm output.
Changed DT_MET to 3600s to match ERA5 data. GPU managed memory switched off by default.
Added code to estimate cloud bottom pressure.
Added function to calculate weighting factor from tropopause distance.
Fixed calculation of lifetime in wet deposition module.
Fixed GPU code.
Revised OpenMP collapse clauses.
Added new quantity definitions.
Revised 2-D interpolation scheme to consider NaNs.
Added default coefficients for OH reactions.
Added output of particle Reynolds number to sedi tool.
Added tools to calculate sedimentation velocity and grid-scale wind variances.
Added wet deposition coefficients for various species.
Revised check for observation time in write_csi, write_prof, and write_sample.
Added longitude range to met_zm tool.
Revised profile output.
Added time range for station output.
Update to GSL v2.7.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport - C
Published by lars2015 almost 5 years ago

MPTRAC - v2.1

Revised OH chemistry code.
Revised profile output.
Added outlier filter for atm_dist.
Added macro for log messages.
Revised doxygen documentation.
Added check for time information in meteo data files.
Fixed linear interpolation in tropopause code.
Added control parameters for tropopause calculation.
Faster time interpolation of meteo data.
Use different rng seeds for different MPI tasks.
Added function to estimate pressure of the planetary boundary layer.
Added quantity for (explicit) volume mixing ratios.
Added a module to apply boundary conditions.
Bugfix dry deposition module.
Added zeta hybrid vertical coordinate as a quantity.
Added linear interpolation to lapse rate tool.
Added time interval for convection module.
Faster index calculation in write_grid().
Bugfix for surface variables.
Revised write_output function in trac.c.
Added IO tuning parameters to the control parameters: chunkszhint, readmode
Revised equation to calculate molecular density of air.
New code to read RWC and SWC.
Update doxygen documentation.
Revised interpolation methods in clim_hno3 and clim_oh.
Added a tool to calculate lapse rate statistics.
Fixed quantity names.
Revised example (maps of meteo data). Revised timers.
Added dew point and frost point temperature to output of met tools.
Allow for "nan" in observation data.
Added generic sampling function.
Added a detrending method for temperature and winds.
Revised interpolation scheme in tropo_sample.
Revised grid output.
Additional verification statistics in CSI output.
Added delta-Z filter in tropo_sample.
Added option to extract meteo maps on isentropic levels.
Revised 3-D interpolation scheme for tropopause data.
Fixed problem with building HDF5 and netCDF-4 on JURECA.
Added surface variables (T2m, U10m, V10m) to meteo data.
Revised consistency check of meteo grids.
Revised code to read meteo data. Removed MET_STAGE option.
Added new control parameter METBASE.
Added macro to calculate geopotential height differences.
Added macro to calculate lapse rate between pressure levels.
Added interpolation macros. Added tropopause T, z, and q to trac output.
Added function to calculate T_NAT.
Made identification of quantity names case-independent.
Revised wet deposition scheme.
Added module to simulate convection.
Added code to calculate convective available potential energy (CAPE).
Bugfix OpenMP parallelization of grid output.
Revised code for humidity calculations.
Improved calculation of geopotential heights near the surface.
Modified horizontal smoothing method for geopotential heights.
Added function to calculate frost point temperature.
Added code to calculate dew point temperature and lapse rate.
Added module to calculate dry deposition.
Changed default time step DT_MOD to 180s.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport - C
Published by lars2015 almost 5 years ago

MPTRAC - v2.0

Revised GPU code.
Minor fix to allow for compilation on JURECA-DC and JUWELS.
Update to gsl-2.6 and netcdf-c-4.7.4.
Added HDF5 and zlib libraries to enable netCDF-4.
Modified read_met for ERA5 netcdf files created by new cdo version.
Added NVTX markers.
Minor changes in Makefile.
Publication of releases on zenodo.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport - C
Published by lars2015 almost 5 years ago