Version 2.1.1

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Version 2.1.0

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Version 2.0.0

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Version 2 beta release 4

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Version 2 beta release 3

This release includes

Bug fixes

• Fix case of no zero crossings for QBO metric computation (#1290) Valeriu Predoi
• Cmorizer wrapper now uses the in-built logger configuration and outputs stdout to out and stderr to err (#1514) Valeriu Predoi
• Took out fx_files from recipe albedolandcover (#1521) bascrezee
• Fix monthly time for era-interim-land (#1504) bascrezee

Diagnostics

• Quantilebias working for only a single dataset (#1511) Jost von Hardenberg
• Added more plotting and saving options for recipe validation (#1490) Valeriu Predoi
• eWaterCycle: Add recipe to prepare input for PCR-GlobWB (#1349) Jaro Camphuijsen
• Fix hard-coded path in recipe_runoff_et.yml (#1526) Mattia Righi
• eWaterCycle: Add recipe to prepare input for HYPE (#1334) Inti Pelupessy
• Miles: fill occasional missing values (#1528) Jost von Hardenberg
• Upgrade pcrglob recipe and diagnostic. (#1531) Peter Kalverla
• Changes to zmNAM diagnostic (#1540) fserva
• Replace extract_slice with extract_transect in diagnostic_transects.py (#1569) Valeriu Predoi
• Add SeaIce Drift metric (#1079) Javier Vegas-Regidor

Documentation

• Better default configuration (#1509) Bouwe Andela
• Documentation: added running pro tips (#1317) Valeriu Predoi
• Remove mention of obsolete mailing list. (#1556) Björn Brötz

Observational and re-analysis dataset support

• Add CMORizer for MAC-LWP (#1507) Birgit Hassler
• Add CMORizer for CALIPSO-GOCCP (#1524) Axel Lauer
• ERA5 CMORization by recipe (#1432) Peter Kalverla
• Add CMORizer for MLS (hur, hurStderr) (#1508) Manuel Schlund
• Add CMORizer for Era-Interim va and ta daily data (#1544) Evgenia Galytska
• Add CMORizer for gpcc (#1550) mwjury
• Add CMORizer for cowtan way (#1552) mwjury
• Add CMORizer for CDS-SATELLITE-ALBEDO (#1541) bascrezee

Improvements

• Convert reference entries to bibtex files (#1498) SarahAlidoost
• Add communities and grant to zenodo file (#1512) Mattia Righi
• Fix broken recipes and tests due to new ESMValCore release v2.0.6b (#1523) Peter Kalverla
• Change order of julia packages (#1535) Jost von Hardenberg
• replaced 1:length(x) by seq_len statements (#1489) chrisdane
• Use Julia environment for running Julia diagnostics (#1557) Bouwe Andela
• Increase version to v2.0.0b3 (#1568) Bouwe Andela

Version 2 beta release 2

This release includes

Diagnostics

• Use master as the default branch (#1483, #1484, #1487) Bouwe Andela
• Add DOIs and paper to documentation (#1309, #1327) Mattia Righi
  Add example recipe that extracts a region based on shapefile (#1318) Bouwe Andela
• Add plots to quantile bias diagnostic (#1230) Enrico Arnone
• Improve quantile bias documentation (#1428) Jost von Hardenberg
• Add pcrglobwb preprocessing script for eWaterCycle (#1270) Bouwe Andela
• Add a tool to test diagnostic script settings (#764) Bouwe Andela
• Re-implement RainFARM diagnostic in pure Julia (#1242, #1321) Jost von Hardenberg
• Pull request templates (#1315, #1324, #1397, #1357) Jaro Camphuijsen
• Reorder recipe perfmetrics diagnostics to optimize runtime (#1326) Mattia Righi
• Update getting started docs for new users (#1330) Peter9192
• Fix Flato et al., 2013, IPCC, Fig 9.8 (#1319) Lisa Bock
• Upgrade to lintr 2, update R style guide and add recommendation for styler (#1355) Bouwe Andela
• Fix provenance of recipe perfmetrics(#1090) Mattia Righi
• Add recipe collins13ipcc (#1310) Ruth Lorenz
• Fix on CVDP to distinguish inputdata with the same dataset name (#1376) Björn Brötz
• Fix to cvdp that data are not overwritten but there for all datasets (#1387) katjaweigel
• multimodel_products diagnostic: added manual option for colorbar (#1368) Axel Lauer
• Port flato13ipcc_9_14 to v2.0 (#1183) Klaus Zimmermann
• Add recipe sea ice (#888) DSenftleben
• Fixed bug in seaice_tsline.ncl: legend_outside (#1408) Axel Lauer
• Sorting and reordering documentation of the recipes (#1385) Axel Lauer
• Clarify installation instructions for ESMValCore from source (#1389) Bouwe Andela
• Add example plots for consecdrydays and shapeselect recipes to documentation (#1381) PeterBergSMHI
• Add documentation for IPCC AR5 fig 9.42a (#1410) Manuel Schlund
• Removed 'field' check from ipcc_ar5/tsline.ncl diagnostic (#1405) Lisa Bock
• Add recipe emergent constraints (#1011) Axel Lauer
• Flexible cmip era validation (#1364) Valeriu Predoi
• Update ERA-Interim recipes to OBS6 (#1411) Peter9192
• Change OBS to OBS6 for ERA-Interim (#1476) Mattia Righi
• Repair autoassess stratosphere (#1417) Valeriu Predoi
• Update recipes and diagnostics to use simplified fx file definition in recipe (#1272) Valeriu Predoi
• Updates to recipe_combined_indices.yml (#1362) Nuria Pérez-Zanón
• Multimodel option for Capacity factor recipe (#1276) Nuria Pérez-Zanón
• Port new sea ice diagnostics from v1.0 (#1421) Axel Lauer
• Fix captions of various example figures in documentation (#1427) Jost von Hardenberg
• Improved captions for BSC diagnostics (#1424) Nuria Pérez-Zanón
• Enhancement of the documentation of some recipes (#1439) Björn Brötz
• Remove R package ncdf4.helpers from list of dependencies (#1449) Bouwe Andela
• Added TCR recipe and fig. 9.42b to Flato13 recipe (#1445) Manuel Schlund
• Snow-albedo effect (#1435) Axel Lauer
• Add recipe to prepare input for the MARRMoT hydrological model (#1348) Jaro Camphuijsen
• Add recipe to prepare input for WFlow (#1346, #1458, #1460) Jaro Camphuijsen
• Extension for histogram and resolution analysis funtionalities and minor improvements (#1463) Benjamin Müller
• Add recipe anav13jclim.yml (#1466) Manuel Schlund
• Added diagnostic and recipe of Wenzel et al. , J. Climate 29 (2016) (#1448) Manuel Schlund
• Fixed ECS calculation when no input data is given (#1453) Manuel Schlund
• Add types of data to README (#1433) Valeriu Predoi
• Add diagnostic albedolandcover (#1370) bascrezee
• Julia example diagnostic and recipe (#1240) Jost von Hardenberg
• Add orcid of some authors to the list (#1474) SarahAlidoost
• Diagnostic for multi-model oceanic field maps or bias against observations (#1210) Tomas Lovato
• Add a sea mask to recipe_extreme_index.yml (#1446) Nuria Pérez-Zanón
• Adapt diagnostics to ESMValCore no longer adding auxiliary coordinates (#1485) Javier Vegas-Regidor
• Add Arctic Ocean diagnostics (#721) Nikolay Koldunov
• Rename zonal_means to zonal_statistics (#1491) Mattia Righi
• Continuously check recipe files are well formed (#1213) Javier Vegas-Regidor
• Porting flato13 fig9.6 to version 2 (#1384) Bettina Gier
• Document how to run multiple recipes via a rose suite (#1262) Valeriu Predoi
• Fix case of no zero crossings for QBO metric computation (#1290) Valeriu Predoi

Observational and re-analysis dataset support

• Fixed time coordinate of MTE (#1258) Manuel Schlund
• Clean up recipe for checking datasets (#1308) Mattia Righi
• Add CMORizer for ERA5 (#1167, #1313, #1325) Bouwe Andela
• Add orography to ERA5 CMORizer (#1419) Peter9192
• Add longwave radiation and surface pressure to ERA5 CMORizer (#1431) SarahAlidoost
• Fix making latitude increasing for ERA5 (#1471) SarahAlidoost
• Add CMORizer for CDS satellite lai fapar (#1200) bascrezee
• Add CMORizer for duveiller 2018 (#1186) bascrezee
• Add CMORizer for NSIDC-0116 (#1066) Javier Vegas-Regidor
• Add CMORizer for piomas sit reanalysis (#1064) Javier Vegas-Regidor
• Add CMORizer for NDP (#1379) Manuel Schlund
• Add CMORizer for HWSD (#1392) Manuel Schlund
• Add CMORizer for JMA-TRANSCOM (#1399) Manuel Schlund
• Add CMORizer for fluxcom gpp (#1229) rswamina
• Add CMORizer for CDS uerra reanalysis (#1275) bascrezee
• Add CMORizer for CERES-EBAF Ed4.0 (#1451) Mattia Righi
• Add CMORizer for GCP (#1398) Manuel Schlund
• Add CMORizer for Merra2 (#1457) bascrezee
• Add CMORizer for PHC3.0 (#1459) Nikolay Koldunov
• Add CMORizer for OSI-450 dataset (#1042) Javier Vegas-Regidor
• Re-implement ERA-interim CMORizer in Python and add extra variables (#1297) Stefan Verhoeven
• Add orography, longwave radiation, surface pressure to ERA-interim cmorizer (#1416, #1426) SarahAlidoost
• Add CMORizer for ERA-Interim Land (#1338, #1423) bascrezee
• Automatic casting of CMORizer output data type (#1402) Manuel Schlund
• Add logger message telling the user where the cmorizer scripts live (#1464) Valeriu Predoi

Version 2 beta release 1

This release includes

• Improved documentation
• Recipe Rainfarm is now fully implemented in Julia
• Recipe Diurnal Temperature Index was updated, sea is now masked out
• Recipes Heatwaves/Coldwaves, Toymodel, and Modes of Variability have been improved
• Recipe Autoassess Stratosphere has been improved and documented
• Recipe ZMNAM has better plots
• Added reformatting to CMOR standard for LAI3g, Eppley-VGPM-MODIS datasets
• A mistake was fixed in the units of the CRU dataset reformatting
• Human readable author tags and ORCIDs for many authors
• A bug in the diagnostic shared io module was fixed
• Added citation information

Version 2 beta release 0

This release includes

• ESMValTool Core is now a separate package
• More documentation and a gallery with example plots
• Improved capacity factor recipe
• CMORization scripts are now available in esmvaltool/cmorizers and more user friendly
• AR6 color tables and tool
• Python 3.7 conda package
• Unused NCL code was removed

Version 2 alpha MAGIC release

This release includes all the work done in the past year.

Major milestones:

• More than 50 recipes are now available, including all diagnostics for the MAGIC project
• In addition to diagnostic scripts in Python and NCL, diagnostics in R and Julia are now also supported
• Provenance information can now be collected and many recipes already use this feature
• Support for more models (CMIP5 and CMIP6) and observational datasets
• Various new preprocessor functions
• Improved reliability
• Contribution guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.md
• More documentation on readthedocs
• Upgraded to Iris 2
• Dropped support for Python 2

Version 2 alpha release

This release includes much of the work done at the recent DLR workshop.

Major milestones:

• We now have eight real recipes (formerly known as namelists) in addition to several example recipes, available in the new version.
• New preprocessor functions for masking by threshold and land/sea.
• New recipe functionality for reading fx-variables