Low Latency Mode and Forecasting Outflow Scenarios v3.0.14 (after v3.0.13)

In this release, we have:

1. Enhanced Low-Latency Functionality: RAT can now run in operational mode with significantly reduced latency as low as 0.
2. Updated Forecasting Plugin: The forecasting plugin has been upgraded to allow forecast generation for multiple past dates. Also, user can now provide scenarios to get forecasted outflow. One of the scenarios is 'ST' where user can provide different values of storage change expressed as a percentage of maximum reservoir capacity.
3. Updated IMERG Precipitation Web Links: The web links for downloading historical IMERG data (prior to 2024) have been updated to match those for current data. This change reflects the revision of the IMERG product version for historical data to V07B, which is now the same as the version for recent IMERG data. These updates were implemented on June 1, 2024, on the IMERG web servers.
4. Updated RAT documentation: To reflect the changes in the forecasting plugin and the possibility of using low latency in operational mode.

What's Changed

• Corrected internal links in RATdocs by @SanchitMinocha in #107
• corrected internal links in Ratdocs by @SanchitMinocha in #108
• Hot fixed web link on ratdocs by @SanchitMinocha in #109
• Optimized multiple basin run; Added handling of case when max temp is greater than min temp in the raw data received from server; Handled Memory Leak Edge Cases by @SanchitMinocha in #111
• Added ability to run at a low latency of less than 3 days (0-3) by @SanchitMinocha in #112
• Updated docs to describe the working of 0 latency by @SanchitMinocha in #114
• Updated docs: actual ST forecasting scenario by @SanchitMinocha in #115

Full Changelog: v3.0.13...v3.0.14

Updated Docs & enhanced Forecasting Plugin v3.0.13 (after v3.0.12)

In this release, we have:

Updated Forecasting plugin so that it can now be used to estimate reservoir outflow as well along with reservoir inflow depending on the scenarios provided by the user.
Updated RAT Documentation for ResORR plugin, BOT Filter and Forecasting plugin.
Updated the IMERG Precipitation web link to download IMERG data as the IMERG product versions were changed on 1st June, 2024.
Updated RAT Documentation to have sections for Patch Notes and Recent Adjustments to highlight the recent changes.
Updated RAT Documentation in 'Getting Ready' section in 'GEE Credentials'.
Updated RAT Documentation and RAT Github to show users what papers to cite in their work if they use this software.

What's Changed

• Added details on the ResORR plugin and BOT Filter to RAT docs by @SarathUW in #97
• Update rat_v1 web link in README.md by @SanchitMinocha in #99
• Bug Fix - Multiple Basins run failing by @SarathUW in #98
• Patch to fix imerg v07b version update from june 2024 by @pritamd47 in #103
• Step 14 for the forecasting plugin by @pritamd47 in #100
• Updated RAT docs with 'download' reference & updated readme to show last updated date. by @SanchitMinocha in #104
• Updated Ratdocs to include Recent adjustments & patch notes; Added RAT Papers to cite by @SanchitMinocha in #105
• corrected Rat3 citation by @SanchitMinocha in #106

Full Changelog: v3.0.12...v3.0.13

Added 2 RAT Plugins with their dependencies v3.0.12 (after v3.0.9)

What's Changed

• Forecasting Plugin by @pritamd47 in #90
• ResORR plugin and minor fix for forecasting by @SarathUW in #91
• Added RAT Tutorial & Bug Fixed (#92) in Routing Code & download link updated by @SanchitMinocha in #93
• Added python dependency for ResORR: geonetworkx & fixed Documentation errors by @SanchitMinocha in #94
• Forecasting bug fix by @pritamd47 in #95
• Solved dependency issues for plugins by @SanchitMinocha in #96

Full Changelog: v3.0.9...v3.0.12

Added 2 RAT Plugins with their dependencies v3.0.11 (after v3.0.9)

What's Changed

• Forecasting Plugin by @pritamd47 in #90
• ResORR plugin and minor fix for forecasting by @SarathUW in #91
• Added RAT Tutorial & Bug Fixed (#92) in Routing Code & download link updated by @SanchitMinocha in #93
• Added python dependency for ResORR: geonetworkx & fixed Documentation errors by @SanchitMinocha in #94

Full Changelog: v3.0.9...v3.0.11

Added 2 RAT Plugins v3.0.10 (after 3.0.9)

What's Changed

• Forecasting Plugin by @pritamd47 in #90
• ResORR plugin and minor fix for forecasting by @SarathUW in #91
• Added RAT Tutorial & Bug Fixed (#92) in Routing Code & download link updated by @SanchitMinocha in #93

Full Changelog: v3.0.9...v3.0.10

Added Visualization feature and updated IMERG precipitation link (v3.0.9 after v3.0.8)

In this release, we have:

1. Added visualization feature to easily create interactive plots for inflow, outflow, storage change, evaporation and surface area of a reservoir along with its Area Elevation Curve.
2. Provided functionality to easily convert relative paths to absolute paths for updating configuration file.
3. Updated the IMERG Precipitation web link to download IMERG data. (web link change was done on 8th November.)

RAT Toolbox Module Added (v3.0.8 after v3.0.7)

rat.toolbox module has been added to contain helpful and utility functions of user. Right now it has one function related to config and that is to update an existing config. Future work will be to add more functions to this module like to create config, or to plot outputs etc.

Functionality Added: BOT Filter (v3.0.7 after v3.0.6)

Added the BOT Filter for surface area time series, which filters the optical derived surface area with SAR surface area as the reference.
The BOT Filter can be used to have granular control over the filtering applied to surface area (SA) time series.
To use the filter, set 'apply' in the config file to 'true' and set the three thresholds.
Bias_threshold: The intensity of filtering out optical SA values that has a bias from SAR value.
Outlier_threshold: The intensity of filtering out outlier values in the Optical SA time series
Trend_threshold: The intensity of filtering out optical SA values whose trend differs from SAR trend
Threshold ranges: (Off: 0 - 9: MAX)
Eg. Relatively Aggressive filtering set: [8,8,8]

Release 3.0.6 after 3.0.2

Bug Fixes:

TMS-OS will work after 2019
TMS-OS will make use of Optical data to estimate surface area of reservoirs if SAR is not available or if Optical is much more than SAR.
To further smoothen and remove the erroneous peaks rising due to use of optical data, Savitzky-Golay filter is applied for cases mentioned in [2].
TMS-OS will not produce error if end date is before the start of Landsat-9 mission.

Improvements:
Tests will now be matched for numeric data and will be considered as match if the error percent between each value is less than threshold (default - 5) %.
State init files (vic and Routing) can now be provided as optional to dates. Earlier RAT used to assume that the state init files will be existing in a particular directory structure. This will not be true if someone is working on tutorial or want to use state files not produced by RAT.

v3.0.5

Bug Fixes:

TMS-OS will work after 2019
TMS-OS will make use of Optical data to estimate surface area of reservoirs if SAR is not available or if Optical is much more than SAR.
To further smoothen and remove the erroneous peaks rising due to use of optical data, Savitzky-Golay filter is applied for cases mentioned in [2].
TMS-OS will not produce error if end date is before the start of Landsat-9 mission.

Improvements:
Tests will now be matched for numeric data and will be considered as match if the error percent between each value is less than threshold (default - 5) %.
State init files (vic and Routing) can now be provided as optional to dates. Earlier RAT used to assume that the state init files will be existing in a particular directory structure. This will not be true if someone is working on tutorial or want to use state files not produced by RAT.