NEWS

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PEcAnAssimSequential 1.10.0

Added

• New function stack_covariates_2_geotiff stacks data layers from various GeoTIFFs (with different extents, CRS, and resolutions) to a single map (#3450)
• New functions qsub_sda(), downscale_qsub_main(), qsub_sda(), qsub_sda_batch(), sda.enkf_local() for submitting SDA batch jobs by splitting a large number of sites into multiple small groups of sites and spreading their computation across all cores of multiple HPC nodes (#3634, #3450, #3544).

Changed

• The entire SDA workflow has been overhauled to support parallel computation throughout.

PEcAnAssimSequential 1.9.0

Added

• tobit_model_censored, technically not new but newly exported after being refactored out from inside the existing SDA analysis code.
• aggregate for spatiol aggregation of model downscaling outputs

Changed

• NA_downscale renamed SDA_downscale_hrly
• Documentation improvements

PEcAnAssimSequential 1.8.0

Added

• New features of the SDA function including:

  • allow user-defined free-run mode;
  • allow user-defined parallel mode for the qsub submission;
  • allow user-defined email option to report the progress.

• GET.MultiSite() now supports the parallelization of multi-chain MCMC sampling with the fully randomized inits function.

• Added new block-based SDA workflow for the 342 North America anchor sites.

PEcAnAssimSequential 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.