NEWS

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meteoland 2.2.7 (2026-05-08)

• Compilation patch for C++ 17 (#include "algorithm")

meteoland 2.2.6 (2026-02-18)

• Internal C++ functions moved to header-only libraries for compilation with medfate

meteoland 2.2.5 (2025-12-12)

• Swap interpolated MinTemperature and MaxTemperature values when MinTemperature > MaxTemperature

meteoland 2.2.4

• Warning raised for interpolation weights that would generate NaN in temperature interpolation (NA is returned), added tests, fix #33

meteoland 2.2.3.9000

• Implemented verbose in write interpolator method, fix #32

meteoland 2.2.3 (2025-01-28)

• Completing PET in complete_meteo(), implementing issue #23

meteoland 2.2.2 (2024-10-17)

• Avoid spatial operations when unnecessary when creating interpolator

meteoland 2.2.1 (2023-11-29)

• Correction of error caused by Rcpp bug

meteoland 2.2.0

• New interpolation parameters for PET calculation (defaults compatible with previous versions)

meteoland 2.1.0 (2023-08-21)

• Cleaning deprecated classes

meteoland 2.0.2

• Modification of default variables for interpolator_calibration
• Avoiding interpolation in cells with missing elevation
• Fixed #21. Now meteo_complete works with missing Precipitation
• Option 'ignore_convex_hull_check' allows ignoring when target point is outside the convex hull

meteoland 2.0.1 (2023-05-29)

• Hard deprecation of "sp", "raster" and "rgdal" depedencies, including functions and classes using them.
• Removed old vignettes and old example data
• meteospain dependency moved to SUGGESTS

meteoland 2.0.0 (2023-02-17)

• Added the new workflows to work without sp, raster, rgdal packages. This is a breaking change, meaning it affects all the package:
  • New functions for interpolation, calibration, cross-validation and summarising workflows has been added. See vignette("tidy-meteoland", package = "meteoland") for more info.
  • Added deprecation notices for all functions that use sp, raster, rgdal packages internally.
  • All functions using sp, raster, rgdal packages enter in maintenance mode. Starting in June, they will stop working in newer versions of meteoland, as these packages also enter in maintenance mode
  • Added tests for new workflows
  • Added tests for results equivalences between new and current workflows
  • Updated documentation (functions) to use roxygen2
  • Added vignetes for the new workflows and the rationale behind it.
• Maintenance of the old workflows:
  • Bug correction in the interpolation.cv
  • Bug correction in interpolategrid

meteoland 1.0.3 (2022-09-08)

• Minor C code corrections (clang check)
• Elimination of sysdata (SMCvarcodes not needed)
• Bug correction in the construction of MeteorologyInterpolationData from SpatialPointsMeteorology
• Minor corrections to interpolation of wind speed and relative humidity, and to PET estimation when wind speed is missing

meteoland 1.0.2 (2022-01-05)

• Remove non-necessary dependencies (xml2, httr, jsonlite)
• Documentation bug

meteoland 1.0.1 (2021-11-29)

• New function 'reshapemeteospain' to reshape weather data obtained using package 'meteospain'
• Functions 'downloadXXXstation', 'downloadXXXcurrentday' and 'downloadXXXhistorical' now call functions from package 'meteospain'

meteoland 1.0.0

• 'debug' option in interpolation params to force additional output
• Download functions DEPRECATED. User is advised to use package 'meteospain'
• CRS specification changed to SRS_string

meteoland 0.9.9

• New functions 'downloadMETEOCLIMATICcurrentday' and 'downloadMETEOCLIMATICstationlist' by MalditoBarbudo, inspired by lemuscanovas
• Bug correction in 'downloadAEMEThistorical'

meteoland 0.9.8

• Bug correction in '.openwritegridNetCDF'

meteoland 0.9.7 (2020-10-27)

• Bug correction in 'mergegrids'
• Bug correction in '.putgridvardataday'
• Flexible variable definition for 'writemeteorologygrid' and 'writemeteorologypoints'
• MeteorologyUncorrectedData accepts filenames as input to avoid loading large files in memory when calling 'correctionpoints'

meteoland 0.9.6

• Allow missing Precipitation when building MeteorologyInterpolationData
• New functions for conversion between relative humidity and dew temperature

meteoland 0.9.5

• Update of reshapeworldmet to adapt to changes in package worldmet v.0.9.0
• Update of function downloadSMCcurrentday

meteoland 0.9.4 (2020-08-27)

• Update of CRS in package data.
• Modification of error handling in .get_data_aemet.
• Bug correction in functions as(,"STFDF") for dates of length one.

meteoland 0.9.3 (2020-06-09)

• New functions 'readNetCDFpoints','readNetCDFproj4string', 'readNetCDFgridtopology' and 'readNetCDFdates'.
• Bug correction byPixels in interpolationpixels/interpolationgrid.

meteoland 0.9.2 (2020-03-31)

• Clean version

meteoland 0.9.0

• New functions 'extractdates' and 'extractvars' replacing and generalizing 'extractpointdates'.
• Function 'summarypoints' can summarize all variables at once.
• Unlimited NetCDF time dimension for grids and station dimension for points.
• Grids/pixels with no dates allowed
• Time (unlimited) is written as last dimension in grids, but can be read as first or last dimension
• New functions as() to transform grids/pixels meteorology into point meteorology
• New function writeemptymeteorologygrid()

meteoland 0.8.9

• New functions to download data from 'meteogalicia' (MG)
• Improvements in function 'reshapeworldmet'
• New (public) functions 'humidity_relative2specific' and 'humidity_specific2relative'

meteoland 0.8.8

• New functions 'writemeteorologypoints' and 'readmeteorologypoints' for storing/reading point data as/from netCDF
• Functions 'interpolationpoints' and 'correctionpoints' can now write their result to netCDF
• Function 'summarypoints' can now produce summaries reading from netCDF
• Function 'extractpointdates' can now extract data reading from netCDF

meteoland 0.8.7

• New function 'readmeteorologygridpoints'
• New function 'writemeteorologygridpixel'
• New functions 'mergegrids' and 'mergepoints'
• Reading multiple grid/pixels files

meteoland 0.8.6

• New function 'averagearea'
• New functions 'defaultGenerationParams' and 'weathergeneration' implementing a multisite and multivariate weather generator
• Modification of readmeteorologygrid/pixels to facilitate reading data from netCDF not created by meteoland

meteoland 0.8.5

• New functions to convert SpatialPointsMeteorology, SpatialPixelsMeteorology and SpatialGridMeteorology into objects of packages 'spacetime' and 'stars'
• Functions to read/write NetCDF files reprogrammed and improved.
• Functions extractgridindex and extractgridpoints reprogrammed

meteoland 0.8.4

• New function to calculate rainfall erosivity

meteoland 0.8.3 (2019-11-05)

• Remove dependencies of ncdf4.helpers

meteoland 0.8.2

• Documentation converted to bookdown reference book.
• Bug correction in function 'doQmapDeque'

meteoland 0.8.1 (2019-05-29)

• Modification of 'radiation_directDiffuseInstant' and 'radiation_directDiffuseDay' to account for topographic effects
• New function 'summarypoint'

meteoland 0.8.0 (2019-04-29)

• New functions 'downloadSMCstationlist', 'downloadSMCcurrentday', 'downloadSMChistorical' and 'downloadSMCvarmetadata'.
• Update of vignette 'Meteorology'.

meteoland 0.7.9

• New function reshapeworldmet to reshape data downloaded using package 'worldmet'
• New function reshapeweathercan to reshape data downloaded using package 'weathercan'
• Transform point coordinate system in 'interpolationpoints', 'interpolationpixels' and 'interpolationgrid' if necessary
• Check for infinite values in 'MeteorologyInterpolationData'
• New function 'correctionpoint'.
• Bug corrected in 'meteocomplete'.
• Added conversion from specific humidity to relative humidity in meteocomplete.

meteoland 0.7.8

• Corrected bug MeteorologyInterpolationData with SpatialPointsTopography as input
• Updated user guide documentation

meteoland 0.7.7 (2018-10-22)

• Empirical quantile mapping according to original method (Déqué)
• Dependency from package 'qmap' removed

meteoland 0.7.6

• Methods 'print/head/tail' updated for objects SpatialPointsTopography and SpatialPointsMeteorology
• Subsetting for objects SpatialPointsMeteorology, SpatialGridMeteorology and SpatialPixelsMeteorology.
• Coercing objects of Spatial...Topography
• New vignette 'user guide' (old one renamed)
• Adapt to Rcpp changes

meteoland 0.7.5 (2018-08-22)

• AEMET download using packages httr and jsonlite (code adapted from https://github.com/SevillaR/aemet)
• Methods 'print/show' added for objects of class SpatialPointsMeteorology, SpatialGridMeteorology and SpatialPixelsMeteorology.
• Methods 'print/show' added for objects of class SpatialPointsTopography, SpatialGridTopography and SpatialPixelsTopography.
• Methods 'head/tail' added for objects SpatialPointsTopography and SpatialPointsMeteorology
• Bug correction: Historical download of AEMET data returns SunshineHours

meteoland 0.7.4

• Added reference to publication
• Added citation reference.
• Bug correction: Over-dimensioned vectors for temperature differences (same for precipitation).
• Low-level interpolation routines made accessible to the user
• Bug correction: builder for MeteorologyInterpolationData
• Bug correction: Missing values in downloadAEMEThistorical

meteoland 0.7.3

• New function 'meteocomplete'.
• Improvement of function 'meteoplot' to accept data frames with daily meteorological data as input

meteoland 0.7.2

• Update of functions to download data from AEMET to deal with encoding
• Update of function 'SpatialPointsMeteorology' to build objects from sets of data frames, one per date
• Update of function 'MeteorologyInterpolationData' to build objects from different data structures
• New function 'summaryinterpolationdata' to summarize objects of class 'MeteorologyInterpolationData'

meteoland 0.7.1 (2018-03-10)

• Bug correction in interpolationpixels (with export=TRUE)
• Bug correction in correctionpoints.errors (with rds input)

meteoland 0.7.0

• New S4 structures: SpatialPixelsTopography and SpatialPixelsMeteorology
• New function interpolationpixels
• Update of functions to download data from the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia (AEMET)
• New function writemeteorologypixels
• Function correctiongrid removed (correction of weather series makes sense for point data)
• New function summarypixels

meteoland 0.6.9

• Allow saturated (> 100% values) in relative humidity when extracting from NetCDF and when performing bias correction

meteoland 0.6.8

• Modification of the precipitation interpolation (kernels)
• Modification of radiation calculation (diffuse light for slopes where direct light is too low)
• Modification of partitioning between direct and diffuse radiation

meteoland 0.6.7 (2017-11-15)

• Improvements in 'subsample' function
• New function 'radiation_skyLongwaveRadiation'

meteoland 0.6.6

• Export format txt/rds
• Changed description

meteoland 0.6.5

• Default correction method for wind switched to 'quantmap'.
• Unbias method for Tmin and Tmax applies bias from Tmean (if also unbiasing).
• Quantile mapping method for Tmin and Tmax is applied to (Tmin-Tmean) and (Tmax-Tmean).

meteoland 0.6.4 (2017-09-05)

• Corrected a bug in the correction of relative humidity.
• New function 'correctionpoints.errors' to evaluate correction errors for the reference period.