Below is the list of all releases with their new features:

Version 1.4.4 (07/12/2023) 

  • Internal adjustment to code-list update in OSCAR/Surface for humidity variable.

Version 1.4.3 (10/10/2023) 

  • Simplified tile-server architecture.
  • 6h and daily NWP reports only activate if data from enough centers is available.

Version 1.4.2 (12/07/2023) 

  • Migration to new API report to fetch schedules from OSCAR/Surface
  • Bugfix to prevent the station from showing twice in case of metadata changes during daily aggregation.
  • Update API endpoint to improve better monitoring of data ingestion
  • Changed the NWP-ID label of the yellow station to be either “TSI” or “WSI” according to the id.

Version 1.4.1 (29/05/2023) 

  • GBON report period is only activated once enough data has been ingested.
  • GBON defaults to a daily period.
  • Faster internal processing.
  • Aggregation process better handles metadata changes for daily aggregations.

Version 1.4.0 (17/05/2023) 

  • Functional
    • New GBON module for surface and upper air. Daily and monthly aggregation and 6h for surface. Data are available from 1/5/2023.
    • The datetime of the last synchronization with Oscar/Surface is shown on the database status page.
    • New API endpoint to help monitor missing files by center.
    • New API endpoint to monitor internal processing
  • Non Functional
    • Integration testing framework.
    • Update of file DWD format for GCOS data ingestion.
    • More efficient internal processing and logging make data available earlier.
    • More robust exception handling of database connectivity loss

Hotfix 1.3.4.1 (08/08/2022) 

  • Hotfix to deal with the date format changes in the schedule files fetched from OSCAR/Surface.  

Version 1.3.4 (26/07/2022) 

  • Fix the discontinuity caused by null values for background departures (bg_dep) in the time-series line chart for the daily quality average O-B. 
  • Update Oscar_Surface Endpoint to include the station affiliation changes in OSCAR/Surface (i.e. RBON).  
  • Consider higher status and aggregation by WSI for Surface and Upper-air observations. 
  • Enhance performance to decrease the execution time of the aggregation process for surface observations by 40%. 

Version 1.3.3 (08/06/2022) 

  • Handling of multiple WIGOS Station Identifiers (WSIs) and assignment of observations to the Primary WSI. 
  • Improve the Search by enabling Secondary WSI search as well. 
  • Correct the time-series chart for stations that simultaneously have observations from the Primary and Secondary WSIs. 

 Version 1.3.2 (05/10/2021) 

  • Implementation of the algorithm to calculate the monthly assessed status of the GOS and RBSN affiliated stations available on WDQMS. 
  • The monthly file containing the assessed status is accessible on the OSCAR interface API endpoint on the fifth of each month. 

Version 1.3.1 (30/03/2021)

  • New module for the monitoring of the surface component of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)
  • Add "Database status" page for GCOS
  • Add a 'country code' column in the CSV file downloaded from the map data

Version 1.3.0 (26/11/2020)

  • New module for the monitoring of the upper-air component of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)
  • Near-real time NWP monitoring of surface: new stations reporting in BUFR using only WSI included (ECMWF) 

Version 1.2.1 (27/07/2020)

  • Add feature to download the map data as a CSV file
  • For near-real time NWP upper-air, update the algorithm to calculate the completeness of a station in case more than one measurement was made during the period.

Version 1.2.0 (06/07/2020)

  • Add NCEP near-real time NWP upper-air data
  • Add feature on the maps to search a station by its name or WIGOS ID
  • Use new NCEP template file for near-real time NWP data
  • Update link to new user guide and FAQs

Version 1.1.0 (30/04/2020)

  • Add DWD near-real time NWP upper-air data

  • Add time-series for near-real time NWP upper-air data
  • Add link to the User Guide (PDF format). 

Version 1.0 (17/03/2020)

Pre operational version  (09/12/2019)

  • Near-real time NWP surface maps and time-series
  • Near-real time NWP upper-air maps