Below is the list of all releases with their new features:
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)
- First operational version
- Add "Database status" page
Pre operational version (09/12/2019)
- Near-real time NWP surface maps and time-series
- Near-real time NWP upper-air maps
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DWD information on upper-air observations has been implemented into the system.
The quality monitoring of upper-air observations was extended to include the option “Time series” on stations pop-up window (availability and quality maps), that displays 30-day time series of various statistics calculated for the selected interval/variable and atmospheric layer.
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