First fixes for NetCDF so it could be used by Alpine3D: a bug when handling precipitation grids has been fixed (nodata now remain nodata) and the data packing has been removed (since when appending new grids it can simply not work). A future alternative could be "bit shaving", see https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/developer/entry/compression_by_bit_shaving .

Documentation improvements, fixed a bug when generating kml files (wrong altitude appended to the name), improved the layout when using smet_range and trying to convert average values to sums in GRIBIO for easier further processing.

An unpleasant bug has been fixed in data_converter when handling large number of stations and time ranges. Minor code cleanup in some plugins.

Cleaning up the docuemntation: the PREVAH landuse code are only of interest for Alpine3D so this has been moved into its documentation

A new tool has been contributed by Aurélien Gallice: a Python class to read SMET files. The smet2kml script now adds the altitude to the station name, making it more convenient when plotting names on a map.

Some docuemntation has been written in the PSUDistribute code to help with debuging *for next time*. The Accumulate resampling now fills the first nodata with 0 (since we know that we don't have enough information to re-accumulate at the first point). The unused "isGzip" booleans have been removed from the smet code since this is currently not supported the way we want it.

A new script has been created to help select SMET files based on the parameters they contain. A bug has been found in PSUMDistribute when a distribution interval would be followed by a large data gap (it was filling the remaining of the buffer with 0).

A small bug has been fixed in the SMET specs. The experimental "UnShade" filter has been removed while the SNOS filter has been renamed as "DETECT_GRASS" and MAX_CHANGE as "Time_Consistency" in order to better reflect the cited paper. The NOISE processing is now documented. Otherwise, some documentation typos have been fixed.

Documentation fixes and slightly improved kml files that now contain the station elevation in the point description

A few new checks have been added when parsing the arguments of the data generators in order to produce a proper error message if necessary. A link has been added to the SMET documentation.

The PSUMDistribute "filter" was not working properly on some data, this has been fixed. Some missing documentation for the TAU_CLD generator has been added.

Improved an error message and added a note in the documentation that libproj is currently not thread-safe (as well as a little code cleanup)

This is finally a proper version of the Solar resampling: it works for multiple stations and is well optimized.

The Solar resampling now works with multiple stations, but this canceled out some of the optimization gains...

The new Solar resampling algorithm has been re-written for performance. It is now 16% faster when compiled in debug mode. It will still need to be tweaked to handle multiple stations (otherwise, the cached parameters would be reused between stations).

This is the first version of a solar radiation resampling algorithm. It seems to work quite well but it is still quite slow (ie it will need to be optimized by caching quite a few things, for each station calling it).

First commit to adress issue 543: now on Posix systems, the readDirectory function can perform a recursive search

The Karsten method for converting cloud cover (in okta) to clearness index has been implemented and is also available as a data generator (looking for a "CLD" parameter to use as cloud cover data)

code cleanup and added the possibility to provide a date range to the smet_range script (there is no default "." directory anymore, the directory MUST be provided)

A OSHD_DEBUG key has been added and the units are now properly supported when using commit https://github.com/tbeu/matio/commit/12b7d4051369716ef21a53540d1f3354fe0d4e97 of libmatio (the UTF-16 is now returned as ISO-8859-1). 

Small optimization in the SNIO plugin.

The OshdIO plugin, based on libmatio for reading Matlab binary files, is coming into shape... almost there!

A bug has been fixed in CosmoXMLIO: it was reading all the data with a time-shift (ie always reading the file *after* the timestep that it should have read).

A few documentation glitches have been fixed in IOInterface and Date and an invalid default value for the time zones fixed in SMETIO (instead of taking 0 as intended, it was always nodata). The missing files for the new OSHD plugin are now committed, although the plugin is NOT READY to be used yet.

Introduced the basic structure that will be required to build a new plugin to read Matlab files prepared by the OSHD project/service. This is not usable yet but should come quite soon.

When opening the xml files with a forced encoding, the files were not being properly closed, leading to a possible "Too many open files" error message