Changes in version 1.9.0.9000                      

Added

  - Added PEcAn.data.land::event_parquet_to_json for generating PEcAn
    event.json files from well-formatted event parquet files, with
    support for ensembles of events.

Fixed

  - soil2netcdf() no longer drops depth information for soils with only
    one layer. (#3785)

  - soil_params() where bulk density is not specified by the user now
    look up soil_bulk_density from the soil type (as always intended)
    instead of always reporting 1350 kg/m3 because of a flow control
    typo. (#3776)

  - Datasets
    
      - landiq_crop_mapping_codes dataset mapping LandIQ crop
        classification codes to human-readable crop names.
      - bism_kc_by_crop dataset containing BISm crop coefficient
        schedules and stage timing references for use in ET estimation,
        including columns that map to LandIQ class and subclass.
      - ca_n_application_rate dataset with recommended N application
        rates (g N/m2) for 33 California crops from CDFA-FREP and UC ANR
        sources.
      - ca_compost_amendment dataset with C:N ratios, carbon, nitrogen,
        and PAN (g/m2) for 32 organic amendment materials.

  - Functions
    
      - look_up_ca_n_rate() for looking up crop-specific N application
        rates by name (exact match first, partial match suggestions on
        miss).
      - look_up_ca_compost_amendment() for looking up organic amendment
        properties by material name.
      - to_co2e() for converting SOC change, CH4, and N2O to
        CO2-equivalent emissions using IPCC Global Warming Potential
        values.

Changed

  - Package traits, used by match_pft() and match_species_id() only when
    no database connection is provided, is now suggested rather than
    required.
  - Updated validate_events_json() to use events schema v0.1.2 by
    default. Older versions are still accessible by setting, e.g.,
    schema_version="0.1.1".
  - Packages doSNOW, dplR, httr, MCMCpack, mvtnorm, neonUtilities,
    neonstore, PEcAn.benchmark, PEcAn.visualization, rjags, sirt, and sp
    are now suggested rather than required. They are only needed for
    specific optional functionality. (#3599)

                        Changes in version 1.9.0                        

Added

  - New function soilgrids_ic_process(), with helpers
    preprocess_soilgrids_data() and generate_soilgrids_ensemble(),
    generates soil carbon initial conditions from SoilGrids 250m data
    (#3508).
  - New function clip_and_save_raster_file() subsets rasters to match a
    polygon of interest (#3537).
  - New function look_up_fertilizer_component() contains typical carbon
    and nitrogen composition of common fertilizer types (#3559).
  - New PEcAn standard for events.json files. These contain information
    about management events (planting, harvest, irrigation, etc). The
    standard is defined in inst/events_schema_v0.1.0.json and event
    files can be validated against the schema with new function
    validate_events() (#3623, #3521).

Changed

  - Read.IC.info.BADM now processes both single-site and multi-site
    settings, and uses more carbon pools (ROOT_BIOMASS, AG_BIOMASS,
    SOIL_STOCK, LIT_BIOMASS) if they are present (#3536).
  - Package swfscMisc is no longer imported; it was formerly used in
    extract_NEON_veg() to compute distances and has been replaced by use
    of terra::distance() (#3552).
  - extract_soil_gssurgo() now supports spatial grid sampling using new
    arguments grid_size and grid_spacing. Previously available argument
    radius has been removed (#3534).
  - extract_soil_gssurgo() now reports an estimate of soil organic
    carbon stocks (#3534).

Removed

  - Removed unused parameter machine from put_veg_module() (#3575).

Fixed

  - Fixed an invalid external pointer error in soilgrids_soilC_extract()
    (#3506).

                        Changes in version 1.8.1                        

  - Dependency datapack is now optional. It is only used by
    dataone_download() (#3373).
  - soilgrids_soilC_extract() no longer returns an empty dataframe when
    none of the queried locations are missing data. (#3409)
  - Functions that name output folders from settings$siteID no longer
    assume IDs are numeric

                        Changes in version 1.8.0                        

Added

  - New function soilgrids_soilC_extract retrieves soil C estimates with
    uncertainty from the ISRIC SoilGrids 250m data. (#3040, @Qianyuxuan)

Fixed

  - gSSURGO.Query() now always returns all the columns requested, even
    ones that are all NA. It also now always requires mukeys to be
    specified.
  - Updated gSSURGO.Query() and extract_soil_gssurgo() to work again
    after formatting changes in the underlying gSSURGO API

Removed

  - find.land() has been removed. It is not used anywhere we know if,
    has apparently not been working for some time, and relied on the
    maptools package which is scheduled for retirement.
  - Removed dependency on PEcAn.data.atmosphere, notably by retrieving
    site latitude and longitude directly from PEcAn.DB::query.site
    instead of custom lookups (#3300, Abhinav Pandey).

                        Changes in version 1.7.1                        

  - All changes in 1.7.1 and earlier were recorded in a single file for
    all of the PEcAn packages; please see
    https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/v1.7.1/CHANGELOG.md for
    details.