NEWS

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PEcAn.FATES 1.8.1.9000

• Removed tests/Rcheck_reference.log, which was used to ignore historic check messages that have now been fixed.

PEcAn.FATES 1.8.1

• model2netcdf.FATES no longer writes separate <year>.nc.var files for every year of output. Use PEcAn.utils::nc_write_varfiles() to create these as needed.

PEcAn.FATES 1.8.0

License change

• PEcAn.FATES is now distributed under the BSD three-clause license instead of the NCSA Open Source license.

Changed

• met2model.FATES now produces three monthly files, including precipitation, solar radiation and temperature+humidity
• model2netcdf.FATES now turns monthly PFT level output and grid level output variables of FATES into yearly file in PEcAn format
• Added new arguments to model2netcdf.FATES: site location, start/end dates, vars, and pfts

Added

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package. Prior to this point changes are tracked in the main CHANGELOG for the PEcAn repository.