EBAS 3.01 Release Notes

Author:PE/ATMOS <pe@nilu.no>

See also

EBAS Commandline Release Notes

Special Note

V.3.01 introduces a number of big features requiring fundamental additions and changes in the data model and thus changes throughout all software layers.

Features

• All ebas commandline programs: selection criteria --component now works with strict synonyms (special behavior for lookup names)

  Issue Description: EWB-391

  Fix: svn r1948

• ebas_insert: Perform selected checks earlier in the process in order to improve the comprehensibility. Additionally, those checks are now performed by file checkers without full database access (e.g. EBAS Submission Tool)

  Issue Description: EWB-290

  Fix: svn r1948

• Data Model: new Analytical instrument metadata

  Issue Description: EWB-377

  Fix: svn r1948

• Data Model: new QA Metadata

  Issue Description: EWB-406

  Fix: svn r1948

• Data Model: new Component synonyms

  Issue Description: EWB-509

  Fix: svn r1948

• Data Model: new Secondary standard ID

  Issue Description: EWB-410

  Fix: svn r1948

• Data Model: new Inlet specific metadata, zero/span check metadata

  Issue Description: EWB-395

  Fix: svn r1948

• Data Model: new Filter specific metadata

  Issue Description: EWB-434

  Fix: svn r1948

• Data Model: new metadata Absorption cross section and Maintenance description

  Issue Description: EWB-433

  Fix: svn r1948

• Data Model: new metadata Upper range limit

  Issue Description: EWB-463

  Fix: svn r1948

• Data Model: new metadata Ozone correction and Water vapor correction

  Issue Description: EWB-472

  Fix: svn r1948

• Data Model: new metadata Sensor type

  Issue Description: EWB-446

  Fix: svn r1948

• Data Model: Parameters / instrument type combinations are now controlled. A new combination must be allowed in order to prevent errors in incoming files to make it into the database.

  Issue Description: EWB-438

  Fix: svn r1948

• Data Model: add CF unit to the parameter masterdata.

  Issue Description: EWB-456

  Fix: svn r1948

• Data Model: add ORCID identifier to person metadata. Amend syntax of data originator and data submitter in the EBAS Nasa Ames file format.

  Issue Description: EWB-457

  Fix: svn r1948

• Data Model: add responsible person (within the datacenter) to framework masterdata.

  Issue Description: EWB-412

  Fix: svn r1948

• Data Model: add Dataset characteristics Gust definition

  Issue Description: EWB-445

  Fix: svn r1948

• ebas_insert: ADDED for AE33 level 0 template:

  • new metadata elements (ebasmetadata)
  • new exceptional masterdata (CO, PM, IP, CV)
  • ADD exceptions for QC masterdata
  Fix: svn r1981, r1982, r1983, r1984, r1996 (V.3.01.01)

• All ebas commandline programs: max volume std. temperature is now 298.15 (+25C) (was used in PSAP lev0)

  Fix: svn r1993 (V.3.01.01)

• Exposed filter area (metadata): upper threshold value is nor 500 cm2

  Fix: svn r2038 (V.3.01.02)

Bugfix:

• ebas_extract: crash when exporting QA metadata

  Fix: svn r1969 (V.3.01.01)

  Backport: svn r1968 (V.3.01.00)

• All ebas commandline programs: reading QA metadata did not work, no QA read

  Fix: svn r1970 (V.3.01.01)

  Backport: svn r1971 (V.3.01.00)

• ebas_insert: Analytical measurement technique and analytical instrument name without manufacturer and model crashed

  Fix: svn r1972 (V.3.01.01)

  Backport: svn r1973 (V.3.01.00)

• ebas_insert: problems with empty QA’s (especially where setting QA elements to empty for a variable)

  Fix: svn r1974 (V.3.01.01)

  Backport: svn r1975 (V.3.01.00)

• ebas_insert: fake component name in main header: calibration scale check and sensor type check fails

  Issue Description: EWB-445

  Fix: svn r1976 (V.3.01.01)

  Backport: svn r1977 (V.3.01.00)

• ebas_extract: Format XML: gml:id is sometimes not unique

  Issue Description: EWB-285

  Fix: svn r1986, r1988 (V.3.01.01)

  Backported to V.3.00.08, svn r1987, r1989

• ebas_insert: crash in check_data when all values BDL and no DL set in metadata

  Fix: svn r1978 (V.3.01.01)

  Backport: svn r1980 (V.3.01.00)

• ebas_extract: extra export interval when HAI changes mid-sample

  Fix: svn r1992 (V.3.01.01)

• ebas_extract: crash when writing lev0 files: metadata attribute was missing in I/O object

  Fix: svn r2016 (V.3.01.02)

  Backport: svn r2017 (V.3.01.01)

• ebas_insert: crash when using unknown standard method

  Fix: svn r2020 (V.3.01.02)

  Backport: svn r2021 (V.3.01.01)

• ebas.io: Create Nasa Ames files - Volume std. pressure and temperature: accept other number types as float (crashed elsewise in nasa ames print header, which expected a string as metadata value)

  Fix: svn r2025 (V.3.01.02)

• ebas.io: ORCID syntax: last digit is a checksum and may be 0-9 or X -> allow X in the last digit -> check checksum

  Fix: svn r2026 (V.3.01.02)

• ebas_insert: crash in check_interdep when detection limit is specified per variable but invalid

  Fix: svn r2034 (V.3.01.02)

• ebas_insert: Intervals of different measure ID’s could not overlap.

  Fix: svn r2039 (V.3.01.02)

Backported from future releases