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####### ESMValTool - Earth System Model Evaluation Tool - RELEASE NOTES #######
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Version 2.0aX - June 2018
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Completely revised version of ESMValTool. This are alpha releases, intended
to be used solely as a preview of the upcoming version 2 release.

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Version 1.1.0 - January 2017
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GENERAL
- new OBS class definition (includes time range specification _YYY1M1-YYY2M2)
- updated ESMValTool user's and developer's guide
- updated ESMValTool Software License

DIAGNOSTIC AND PLOT ROUTINES
- added sea-ice, xco2 and soil moisture to perfmetrics
- added optional uncertainty estimates to Taylor diagrams (recipe_lauer17rse.yml)
- new ESA CCI diagnostics for SST, soil moisture, land cover, xco2
  (recipe_lauer17rse.yml)
- added IPCC ch.9 figs. 9.28 and 9.30 (recipe_flato13ipcc.yml)
- new variables including error estimates for extisting variables (<varname>Stderr)
- added summary plot (various campaigns) for aerosol vertical profiles

OBSERVATIONS
- new observations: ESACCI-OZONE, ESACCI-SIC, ESACCI-CLOUD, ESACCI-GHG,
  ESACCI-SOILMOISTURE, ESACCI-SST, ESACCI-LANDCOVER, PATMOS, CLARA-A2, Asmi11

MINOR CHANGES AND BUG FIXES
- adjustments of aerosol, cloud, sea ice, ozone, perfmetrics diagnostics
- perfmetrics: stippling of significant values in differences plots
  (zonal means + lat-lon plots) instead of masking out non-significant values
  in gray
- remove inappropriate conversion (C-->K) from recognized_units.dat 
  (only multiplicative factors are allowed)
- added depth info for mrsos in reformat
- added diagnostic for calculating multi-model means (recipe_mmm.yml)

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Version 1.0.1 - June 2016
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GENERAL
- paths to workdir, climodir, plotdir, model and observational data can now be
  set in a single configuration file (config_private.yml) and included in the
  main recipes using the @{} syntax (e.g., @{MODELPATH}/CMIP5/MPI-ESM-LR/...)
- reformat scripts for the observations can now be defined in a main recipe
  (recipe_reformat_obs.yml) and passed to main.py with the -r option:
    python main.py -r nml/recipe_reformat_obs.yml

DIAGNOSTIC AND PLOT ROUTINES
- new diagnostics for precipitation over soil moisture anomalies in
  recipe_sm_pr.yml
- enabled detrending in nml/cfg_GO/spco2compmapDiag.ncl
- added od870aer, abs550aer, od550lt1aer, toz  to recipe_perfmetrics_CMIP5
- added display name wrapper to all(?) model entries for the Tropical
  Variability diagnostics
- added option to alternative panelling of Tropical variability scatter plots
- added more options for plotting in recipe_aerosol_EMAC.yml

OBSERVATIONS
- added reformat_obs_ACCESS-2 and reformat_obs_HadCRUT4
- extended reformat_obs_MODIS to include od550aer
- extended reformat_obs_ESACCI-AEROSOL to include od870aer, abs550aer and
  od550lt1aer

MINOR CHANGES AND BUG FIXES
- cleaned up config files for recipe_perfmetrics_CMIP5
- added fix file for CMIP5_CNRM-CM5
- added dpi option to recipe for Python based diagnostics
- added routines to use external file for model display names in Python
- added functionality to switch display names in Python plots
- small generalization and bugfix in logging routine in esmval_lib
- added functionality for mapping model name onto display model names for 
  figure headings
- added explanatory comment how to run the pybot easytest recipe test cases
- added recipe switch to control PNG figure resolution from recipe
- generalized handling of styles with Python diagnostics


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Version 1.0 - December 2015
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FIRST RELEASE!