The reading support is now more generic: the time units are read and parsed from the file. The units are always corrected when necessary. If no date is provided and the file only contains the grid at one time step, it will be read by default. The DEM extraction from pressure data now works properly for any file (ie no more hard coded dates).

Removed some commented out code, improved some documentation and recomputed a test that had been invalidated by changing the implementation of the HNW_Snow spatial interpolation method.

Some doxygen comments have been improved, A few physical constants have been added. The DEM extraction from pressure fields in NETCDFIO has been improved (the previous calculation was mostly wrong).

All the PNGs that we written were corrupt: the first line of data was missing. This has been fixed. for NetCDF, the ability to calculate the altitude from the pressure (and sea level pressure) has been added with a controlling key. This is not very precise but this could help for troubleshooting problems when no DEM has been provided (such as with ECMWF data sets).

A new date format has been added: RFC868. Two MeteoGrids have been renamed: ISW_DIR as ISWR_DIR and ISW_DIFF as ISWR_DIFF while a new grid has been declared (P_SEA). A few new constants have been declared. Some new links into the GRIB documentation as well as support for TAU_CLD. The NetCDF support is much improved, although there are still things left to do (writing grids out has been disabled for the moment, the parsing of the time units is currently not done, there is no support for automatically getting the data out of multiple files in a directory, etc).

Several warnings have been fixed. The (slightly) wrong geolocalization calculation such as found in fixed in NetCDF has also been fixed in GRIB. A bug that was preventing GRIB DEM from being read has been fixed.

The CNRM plugin can now be enabled and properly works. Its documentation has been updated and improved. The NetCDF plugin can now read DEMs using various schema/conventions and its documentation now matches the code. A few more MeteoGrids have been defined that are required for meteorological model outputs and for some future spatial interpolations (ISW_DIR, ISW_DIFF for example). The PNG plugin creates a few more EXIF fields in order to make it very easy to integrate in google earth (but it seems that google earth does not like indexed pngs). A bug computing the geolocalization of grids coming from NetCDF has been fixed (all grids were slightly off).

Some threshold were making trouble for very high resolution simulations with Winstral, they have been changed. A broken link has been fixed in NetCDFIO.

The basic operators have been implemented in Grid2DObject and Grid3DObject as well as DEMObject (with the proper update strategy). 

In order to suppress the risk of out of date "ncols, nrows" and since these were redundant with Array2D<>.nx/ny, they have been suppressed and it is therefore now mandatory to rely on the getNx/getNy/getNz getters. This is much safer but impacted quite a lot of code... 

Some documentation bugs have been fixed (multiple links definitions for doxygen). The config.dox file has been updated (in order to remove the warnings for obsolete keys). The parameter exclusion feature has been documented and now supports both a space delimited external file or by keys such as WFJ2::exclude = TA RH HS

better file structure: all the classes purely focused on data storage (such as grids, dates, etc) have been moved into a "dataClasses" directory. All subdirectories are nhow named similarly to the classes and methods: the words after the first one are capitalized.

A bug has been fixed when doing nearest neighbour 2D interpolation. The GRIB plugin can now handle non-square cells (by resampling the domain). The cellsize and geolocalization in NetCDF are now handled the same way as in GRIB: the error is minimized in the center of the domain and the llcorner is back-calculated. Therefore very large domains are handled better. The first elements for supporting ECMWF grids have been implemented, the DEMs can now be read (but their remain as geopotential instead of height).

The support for non-square cells (through resampling to make them square) has been added to GRIBIO. Both for Gribio and Netcdfio, the cellsize is not a max(size_x, size_y) anymore but a min() (in order to be consistent with best practice in GIS)

The WIN32 pre-processor variable has been renamed in MSWIN since this is more logical on Win64 (and to avoid potential conflicts). Some headers have been cleaned up in the process (in Timer.h/.cc). A new method has been moved from Config to FileUtils: isAbsolutePath. Some extra features (support for offset in hours) added to NetCDFIO.

Small clean up for the specific/relative humidity conversions. Small code clean up (mostly indentation) for NetCDF.

NetCDFIO: Now all the wrappers for libnetcdf have been put into a separate namespace called ncpp in separate files.

NetCDFIO: Full implementation of the STRICTFORMAT config option. By default all parameters, also those not conforming with the format are read and written, the user though may force conformity by setting the STRICTFORMAT parameter to TRUE in the io.ini [Input] and [Output] sections

NetCDFIO: Introducing the STRICTFORMAT config parameter for the io.ini when using the NetCDFIO plugin to read or write meteo data. This paramater is by default set to false meaning that meteo parameters that are not present in the CNRM standard for NetCDF files will also be read and written. Setting STRICTFROMAT to true means that only parameters defined in the CNRM standard will be regarded when reading and writing meteo data, all other meteo parameters will be ignored.

A few extra checks have been added for grid rescaling. Some indentation has been fixed and lots of variables made const. The documentation is now linked to the general plugins documentation.

NetCDFIO: Further cleanup, readStationData revamped, added a method to check dimensions of a variable

NetCDFIO: Thanks to heavenly input by Mathias the 2D grid reading and writing is numerically consistent now. The only tradeoff is that precision of the cellsize is limited to 1cm, otherwise numerical instabilities may occur. 

NetCDFIO: deleting existing files before creating a new one when writing meteo data, everything else is too complicated for the moment