Below is the list of all releases with their new features:

Hotftix  1.5.3.2 (07/05/2025)

  • Update of map client.
  • More robust parsing of GCOS data.
  • Update of GCOS station database schema for RWC support.

Version  1.5.3 (25/03/2025)

  • Marine Quality Phase II: Marine assets matched to OSCAR/Surface. Link to OSCAR/Surface in popup. Map toggle can be used to show unmatched assets.
  • Implementation of Timeliness template. Timeliness information stored in database if provided by NWP centers.
  • Regional WIGOS Center affiliation of station synchronized from OSCAR/Surface and stored in database.
  • Minor updates and bugfixes: update of legend for upper-air, renamed TSI to WDSI for marine assets and resolution of backend warnings.

Hotftix  1.5.2.1 (25/11/2024)

  • Bugfix of filter in legend.
  • Bugfix to align download and map.
  • Removed yellow station category from hourly/2-daily baselines in NWP module.

Version  1.5.2 (20/11/2024)

  • Improved handling of OSCAR schedules of non-reporting stations and more accurate calculation of expected observations.
  • Hourly/2-daily baselines for NWP module in addition to OSCAR baseline.
  • RMSE value is now contained in the download file of NWP monthly reports. The "Gross error percent" can now be obtained by using the extra_columns parameter.
  • Filtering out of TAC and BUFR ASAP (TEMPSHIP) observations with code 111, 36 in the Marine module.
  • Bugfix in NWP upper-air availability daily period. Availability and completeness are calculated by considering both nr_expected and nr_received in combination. 
  • Enhanced Google Analytics integration for improved tracking and insights.
  • Improvement of map popups, disclaimer content, and the "About" section.

Hotfix  1.5.1.1 (03/10/2024)

  • More robust and fault-tolerant processing of files from NWP centers.
  • Implemented internal logging of ingested files from NWP centers.

Version  1.5.1 (22/07/2024)

  • JMA fetch data process to use monthly directory listing on JMA server to discover available data. 
  • Data insertion split into chunks to lower memory profile.
  • Increased Cron-job active deadline to allow for longer execution time.

Version  1.5.0 (09/07/2024)

  • Surface marine quality component for 6h and daily periods.
  • Revised about page and new menu structure.
  • Enhancements of the operational environment.

Version 1.4.6.1 (08/05/2024) 

  • Improved loading speed of maps.
  • 6h aggregation to become available as soon as all centers have provided files.
  • Download link to return 400 error code if data is not yet available.
  • Upper-air NWP download API accepts an additional URL parameter “extra_columns=nr_complete” to return the number of complete observations in addition to the number of received.
  • Bugfixes in daily and monthly download, database status, alerting and monthly surface quality.
  • Improved internal architecture by introducing a repository pattern for fetching data from NWP centers.

Version 1.4.6 (30/04/2024) 

  • Monthly aggregation feature for (NWP) both surface and upper-air.
  • Aggregation of a number of Gross Errors in daily reports to calculate monthly Gross Error percentage.
  • Bugfix so that upper-air quality station popup correctly displays the best centre.
  • Definition of internal floating point precision to 6 digits to improve accuracy and predictability.
  • Improved system logging by capturing timeout-related warnings, enhancing error tracking and system diagnostics.

Version 1.4.5.1 (20/03/2024) 

  • Improved error handling and logging.
  • Bugfix for OSCAR/Surface interface bug addressing higher resolution of datetime.
  • Updated the map disclaimer and link.

Version 1.4.5 (06/03/2024)

Technology stack upgrade, Phase II.

  • Update of key libraries (Python 2.7 to 3.9.18, Django 1.8 to 4.2, and Pandas 0.24 to 2.1.3).
  • Streamlining of development platform: Simplification of Dockerfiles, Docker Compose-based development environment, introduction of Poetry for reproducible dependency management. 

Hotfix 1.4.4.1 (21/02/2024) 

  • Hotfix to handle SSL certificate validation of JMA files.

Version 1.4.4 (07/12/2023) 

  • Internal adjustment to code-list update in OSCAR/Surface for humidity variable.

Version 1.4.3 (10/10/2023) 

  • Simplified tile-server architecture.
  • 6h and daily NWP reports only activate if data from enough centers is available.

Version 1.4.2 (12/07/2023) 

  • Migration to new API report to fetch schedules from OSCAR/Surface
  • Bugfix to prevent the station from showing twice in case of metadata changes during daily aggregation.
  • Update API endpoint to improve better monitoring of data ingestion
  • Changed the NWP-ID label of the yellow station to be either “TSI” or “WSI” according to the id.

Version 1.4.1 (29/05/2023) 

  • GBON report period is only activated once enough data has been ingested.
  • GBON defaults to a daily period.
  • Faster internal processing.
  • Aggregation process better handles metadata changes for daily aggregations.

Version 1.4.0 (17/05/2023) 

  • Functional
    • New GBON module for surface and upper air. Daily and monthly aggregation and 6h for surface. Data are available from 1/5/2023.
    • The datetime of the last synchronization with Oscar/Surface is shown on the database status page.
    • New API endpoint to help monitor missing files by center.
    • New API endpoint to monitor internal processing
  • Non Functional
    • Integration testing framework.
    • Update of file DWD format for GCOS data ingestion.
    • More efficient internal processing and logging make data available earlier.
    • More robust exception handling of database connectivity loss

Hotfix 1.3.4.1 (08/08/2022) 

  • Hotfix to deal with the date format changes in the schedule files fetched from OSCAR/Surface.  

Version 1.3.4 (26/07/2022) 

  • Fix the discontinuity caused by null values for background departures (bg_dep) in the time-series line chart for the daily quality average O-B. 
  • Update Oscar_Surface Endpoint to include the station affiliation changes in OSCAR/Surface (i.e. RBON).  
  • Consider higher status and aggregation by WSI for Surface and Upper-air observations. 
  • Enhance performance to decrease the execution time of the aggregation process for surface observations by 40%. 

Version 1.3.3 (08/06/2022) 

  • Handling of multiple WIGOS Station Identifiers (WSIs) and assignment of observations to the Primary WSI. 
  • Improve the Search by enabling Secondary WSI search as well. 
  • Correct the time-series chart for stations that simultaneously have observations from the Primary and Secondary WSIs. 

 Version 1.3.2 (05/10/2021) 

  • Implementation of the algorithm to calculate the monthly assessed status of the GOS and RBSN affiliated stations available on WDQMS. 
  • The monthly file containing the assessed status is accessible on the OSCAR interface API endpoint on the fifth of each month. 

Version 1.3.1 (30/03/2021)

  • New module for the monitoring of the surface component of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)
  • Add "Database status" page for GCOS
  • Add a 'country code' column in the CSV file downloaded from the map data

Version 1.3.0 (26/11/2020)

  • New module for the monitoring of the upper-air component of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)
  • Near-real time NWP monitoring of surface: new stations reporting in BUFR using only WSI included (ECMWF) 

Version 1.2.1 (27/07/2020)

  • Add feature to download the map data as a CSV file
  • For near-real time NWP upper-air, update the algorithm to calculate the completeness of a station in case more than one measurement was made during the period.

Version 1.2.0 (06/07/2020)

  • Add NCEP near-real time NWP upper-air data
  • Add feature on the maps to search a station by its name or WIGOS ID
  • Use new NCEP template file for near-real time NWP data
  • Update link to new user guide and FAQs

Version 1.1.0 (30/04/2020)

  • Add DWD near-real time NWP upper-air data

  • Add time-series for near-real time NWP upper-air data
  • Add link to the User Guide (PDF format). 

Version 1.0 (17/03/2020)

Pre operational version  (09/12/2019)

  • Near-real time NWP surface maps and time-series
  • Near-real time NWP upper-air maps