Changes in version 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.

                        Changes in version 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

                        Changes in version 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.

                        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.