NEWS

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cmsafvis 1.5.0

• Improved fieldmean_plot() by adding support for monthly input data, including accumulated monthly fieldmean plots for larger regions such as Europe or Africa, and made the existing daily workflow more robust for non-country regions.

cmsafvis 1.4.0

• Added optional ticks and tick_labels parameters to the quicklook configuration to allow explicit control of colorbar tick positions and labels.

cmsafvis 1.3.0 (2025-10-21)

• Added option to change textsize in figures via Toolbox (cmsaf R-package)
• Adapt quicklook config for anomalies
• Bug fix: time period for fieldmean plots
• Added option to plot trends using significance mask
• Bug fix: Fixing white lines in map plots
• Bug fix: Fix issue in render_region_plot to use own shapefiles

cmsafvis 1.2.9 (2024-09-30)

• For fieldmean plots unit is taken from metadata if it contains the addition (neu) or (new)
• Minor fix of test

cmsafvis 1.2.8 (2024-07-03)

• Bug fix for quicklooks for time format of hourly data
• Bug fix in create_country_mask to avoid issues with country maps in monitor_climate
• For anomaly plots lon/lat values outside the given limits are allowed now to have better influence on the plotting region
• Improved aspect ration for anomaly plots

cmsafvis 1.2.7 (2024-05-03)

• Correction in quicklooks for md and hm product dates

cmsafvis 1.2.6 (2024-04-26)

• Bug fix for quicklooks due to incorrect background plotting

cmsafvis 1.2.5

• New attribute for quicklook config file: logmin
• Bug fix for quicklook for incorrect plot of grey background in some cases

cmsafvis 1.2.4

• Minor update of quicklook for colour scale with triangle

cmsafvis 1.2.3 (2024-01-26)

• Bug fix for quicklook in case of empty products plus log-scale and min=0
• New attribute for quicklook config file: namin
• Set font family 'Liberation Sans' in quicklook to avoid changes on different systems
• Add config parameters triup and tridown in quicklook config

cmsafvis 1.2.2 (2023-12-19)

• Update of quicklook due to changes of remap and aux_files position in config file
• Bug fix for polar quicklooks

cmsafvis 1.2.1

• Bug fixes in quicklook for level-2 log-scales

cmsafvis 1.2.0 (2023-09-15)

• Update to remove retired packages rgdal, maptool, sp

cmsafvis 1.1.18

• Several fixes in quicklook to match 1.1.15 plots

cmsafvis 1.1.17

• New quicklook parameter: remap to remap data using lon / lat from aux_file esp. for plotting CLAAS level-2 data

cmsafvis 1.1.16

• New quicklook parameter: aux_file for optional aux file
• New quicklook parameter: smooth_factor to smooth figures
• New quicklook parameter: scale_factor to multiply with data

cmsafvis 1.1.15

• New config-parameter in quicklook: log_scale for logarithmic colorscales

cmsafvis 1.1.14

• Bug fix in quicklook: variable was not recognized correctly due to missing toupper command
• New config-parameter in quicklook: mirror_data to mirror data at south or north pole

cmsafvis 1.1.13

• Minor adaptations to quicklook: new config parameters (var_name, bluemarble, sysdata); bluemarble plots are now available if the path to corresponding sysdata-file is given in config-file (file will be available via CM SAF R Toolbox Website)

cmsafvis 1.1.12 (2022-07-13)

• Adapt y-limit for fieldmean
• Add option for x and y label of 1d plots <<<<<<< HEAD
• Packages removed from Imports: rgdal, rworldxtra, maptools =======
• Unused packages removed from Imports: rworldxtra, rgdal, maptools

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cmsafvis 1.1.11 (2022-03-15)

• Minor adaptations to fieldmean plots
• New color options for anomaly plots
• Option to plot relative anomaly plots

cmsafvis 1.1.10 (2022-01-20)

• new config parameter for quicklook: 'unit' - define variable unit
  • e.g., Percent or '%'
• new color scales 'albedo' and 'albedo2' added
• minor adaptations to quicklook
• GeoTiff output changed from RGB to raster values
• Circular Stripe plots (contribution by Emanuele Bevacqua; see emanuele.bevacqua.eu)

cmsafvis 1.1.9 (2021-12-02)

• plotKML package is back on CRAN and export of KML is possible again
• fieldmean plot includes now all available years and not just years included in the climatology period
• new color scale 'larry' added
• get_basename_vis added to helper functions to avoid clash with
  cmsafops::get_basename

cmsafvis 1.1.8 (2021-11-02)

• Duplication of get_basename helper function in cmsafvis and cmsafops led to a warning in cmsaf

cmsafvis 1.1.7 (2021-10-15)

• Adaptations to work with files via URL
• KML export is temporarily removed due to missing plotKML package

cmsafvis 1.1.6

• Bug fixes in quicklook: wrong logo position, wrong color bar in polar plots

cmsafvis 1.1.5 (2021-09-06)

• Several adaptations in quicklook operator
• New config parameters for quicklook

cmsafvis 1.1.0 (2021-02-19)

• Add new funtionalities to monitor_climate operator (warming stripes, trend plot, time series plot)
• Update required package dependencies
• Add new operators to compare data
• Add option to plot DWD logo
• Source label changed from creator_name to publisher_name

cmsafvis 1.0.0 (2020-10-06)

• Split up old cmsaf package into cmsaf (containing only the toolbox), cmsafops (containing operators for NetCDF data) and cmsafvis (containing plotting functionality)
• New operator set to monitor and analyze the climate (monitor_climate)
• Quicklook operator to create a visual preview of data obtained from the CM SAF (quicklook)