Release notes

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Upcoming

Planned features:

• Multi-agent system for humans in urban environments
• Indoor climate and energy demand model:
• RANS mode:
• Biometeorological analysis products

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Version 5.0 - December 15, 2017

New features:

• Land surface scheme (PALM):
  • Support for water and paved surfaces added
  • Revised skin layer concept and soil model configuration
• Urban surface scheme (PALM-4U):
• Radiative transfer (PALM-4U):
• LES-LES self-nesting (PALM-4U):
• Cloud microphysics (PALM):
• Interface for reading NetCDF input data: (PALM-4U):
• Chemistry model (PALM-4U):
• INIFOR (PALM-4U):

Changes:

• Surface treatment:
• Topography implementation:

Bugs fixed:

Known bugs:

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Version 4.0 - January 28, 2015

New features:

• Progress bar (PALM): Informative messages during execution and progress bar added
• Land surface model (PALM): Beta version has been implemented
• Radiation model (PALM): Simple clear-sky radiation model and coupling to the RRTMG radiation code realized

Changes:

• Parallel NetCDF: Peformance optimization for parallel NetCDF on Cray XC systesm
• General changes in code layout:
  • ONLY attribute added to all USE statements
  • KIND parameter added to all INTEGER/REAL declarations
  • comment fields for explaining variables added
• Lagrangian particle model: Completely revised with improved performance and less demand of memory
• Large-scale forcing / nudging: Some extensions
• Performance: Code modifications to allow run on 10.000 cores and more
• Canopy model: Canopy model is modularized and controlled by seperate NAMELIST

Bugs fixed:

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Known bugs:

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