FINAM v0.5.0

FINAM is an open-source component-based model coupling framework for environmental models.
It aims at enabling bi-directional online couplings of models for different compartments like geo-, hydro-, pedo- and biosphere.

The framework is built in Python, with well-defined interfaces for data exchange.
This approach allows for coupling of models irrespective of their internal structure, architecture or programming language.

Resources

• FINAM homepage
• FINAM documentation
• FINAM source code
• FINAM GitLab group, containing further related projects

Changelog

Features

• Components and adapters can provide a dictionary of meta data (!259)
• Class Composition hat a property metadata that collects and returns the meta data from all components and adapters (!259)
• Automatic conversion between compatible grids (!255)
• Adds methods to_canonical, from_canonical and get_transform_to to grid classes (!255)
• Adds support for masked grids using numpy.ma.MaskedArray (!258, !260)
• Adds convenience functions for dealing with masked arrays in data.tools (!260):
  is_masked_array, has_masked_values, filled, to_compressed, from_compressed, check_data_covers_domain

Documentation

• Adds a book chapter on wrapping existing models for FINAM (!256)
• Adds a book section on masked data (!262)

Bug fixes

• No more logging of expected FinamNoDataError in inputs during the connect phase (!257)

Other

• FINAM is now available on Conda via conda-forge