CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

v1.4.0 - 2021-07-27 -

general:

• many technical adjustments to improve usability and transparency of MLAir
• new FCN and CNN classes for easy NN model creation
• new plots

new features:

• new FCN class that can be customized in many ways (#284 (closed))
• also new CNN class (#289 (closed))
• added new bootstrap analysis method: mean bootstrapping (#300 (closed))
• new data handler using FIR filters (#306 (closed))
• performance measures are now stored in local files (#286 (closed))
• histogram plots for inputs and targets (#299 (closed))
• periodogram plots for filtered data (#298 (closed))

technical:

• a calling run script can be stored inside experiment folder if reference to this script is parsed as argument (#99 (closed))
• new callback to track epoch-runtime (#312 (closed))
• added switch to use multiprocessing (#297 (closed))
• customize maximum number of parallel processes (#308 (closed))
• support non-monotonic window lead times (#313 (closed))
• resolved bug with FileExistsError (#311 (closed))
• resolved bug if no chemical is used at all (#307 (closed))
• min/max scaler now scales between -1 and 1 (#302 (closed))
• added missing offset parameter to some data handlers (#305 (closed))
• improved data store logging (#304 (closed))
• improved logging message on station removal in preprocessing (#294 (closed))
• limited number of retries in JOIN module (#296 (closed))
• adjusted competing skill score plot (#301 (closed))
• transformation parameter check (#295 (closed))
• implemented lazy data preprocessing for selected data handlers (#292 (closed))
• fix bug in separation of scales data handler (#290 (closed))

v1.3.0 - 2021-02-24 - competitors and improved transformation

general:

• release of official MLAir logo (#274 (closed))
• new transformation schema for better independence of MLAir and data handler (#272 (closed))
• competing models can be included in postprocessing for direct comparison (#198 (closed))

new features:

• new helper functions for geographic issues (#280 (closed))
• default data handler and inheritances can use min/max and log transformation (#276 (closed), #275 (closed))
• include IntelliO3-ts model as reference via automatic download (#131 (closed))

technical:

• experiment name now always includes target sampling type (#263 (closed))
• competitive skill score plot is refactored (#260 (closed))
• bug fix for climatological skill scores (#259 (closed))
• bug fix for custom objects handling (#277 (closed))
• bug fix for monitoring plots when multiple output branches are used (#278 (closed))
• update requirements to newer version and dependencies (#262 (closed), #273 (closed))
• HPC scripts are updated to work properly with parallel data processing (#281 (closed))

v1.2.1 - 2021-02-08 - bug fix for recursive import error

general:

• applied bug fix

technical: