MAPL 2.28.0

[mathomp4]

This is a minor release of MAPL that is zero-diff in all testing, save for some History metadata changes.

With tripolar history output, the difference is due to a better tripolar grid factory being added to this release, so that tripolar History output is more like that of other grids including adding corner lats and lons.

For ALL History output, there is a global metadata change due to a request from NOAA. Namely, the default Contact: in History Gridded Component is now set to be blank. To keep metadata the same in GEOS History output, please set CONTACT: in your HISTORY.rc file. (This is done for GEOS users in a PR to GEOSgcm_App: GEOS-ESM/GEOSgcm_App#367

Other changes in this release include:

• Major extension to the Automatic Code Generator python script
• Reorganization of the pFIO demo program
• A fix to stretched-grid checkpoints
• Addition of a new GitHub Action/CircleCI process to make a Docker container upon release

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The libraries this version of MAPL has been tested with are below.

• Baselibs 7.5.0
  • netcdf-c 4.8.1
  • netcdf-fortran 4.5.4
  • ESMF 8.3.0
  • GFE 1.4.0
    • gFTL 1.8.1
    • gFTL-shared 1.5.0
    • pFUnit 4.4.1 (optional)
    • fArgParse 1.3.0 (optional)
    • pFlogger 1.9.1 (if -DBUILD_WITH_PFLOGGER=YES)
    • yaFyaml 1.0.4 (if -DUSE_EXTDATA2G=YES)
    • FLAP geos/v1.10.0 (if -DBUILD_WITH_FLAP=YES)

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Fixed

• Fix checkpoint target_lon and target_lat to be in degrees rather than radians

Added

• Implemented create from filemetdata for Tripolar Grid Factory and add corners to output when writing files on Tripolar grid
• Added Dockerfile and CircleCI workflow to build and push container to both Docker Hub and GitHub Container Registry on
  MAPL releases. Uses a GitHub Action to trigger CircleCI pipeline on releases.

Changed

• Removed URLs and emails from MAPL per request of NOAA.
  • Changed the default Contact: in History Gridded Component to be blank. To keep metadata the same in History
    output, please set CONTACT: in your HISTORY.rc file.
• Reorganized the file Tests/pfio_MAPL_demo.F90 to mimic the steps of MAPL_Cap.
• Extend ACG
  • Add options (MAPL_DataSpec) / columns (read_specs)
  • Add constants for literals for uniformity (CATEGORIES, ALLOC, DELIMITER, TERMINATOR)
  • Fix lookups in aliases (dict) to find key (alias) or value (alias target) to allow unaliased options are possible
  • Add the alloc option to emit_get_pointers
  • Update outdated comments

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What's Changed

• Auto GitFlow - main → develop by @github-actions in Auto GitFlow - main → develop #1710
• Fixes Build MAPL without executables #1694. Remove URLs from MAPL by @mathomp4 in Fixes #1694. Remove URLs from MAPL #1715
• Create dependabot.yml by @mathomp4 in Create dependabot.yml #1714
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 2 to 3 by @dependabot in Bump actions/upload-artifact from 2 to 3 #1721
• Bump devops-infra/action-pull-request from 0.4 to 0.5.0 by @dependabot in Bump devops-infra/action-pull-request from 0.4 to 0.5.0 #1719
• Bump styfle/cancel-workflow-action from 0.9.1 to 0.10.1 by @dependabot in Bump styfle/cancel-workflow-action from 0.9.1 to 0.10.1 #1717
• Bump actions/checkout from 2 to 3.1.0 by @dependabot in Bump actions/checkout from 2 to 3.1.0 #1720
• Auto GitFlow - main → develop by @github-actions in Auto GitFlow - main → develop #1718
• Bump styfle/cancel-workflow-action from 0.10.1 to 0.11.0 by @dependabot in Bump styfle/cancel-workflow-action from 0.10.1 to 0.11.0 #1725
• Bump devops-infra/action-pull-request from 0.5.0 to 0.5.1 by @dependabot in Bump devops-infra/action-pull-request from 0.5.0 to 0.5.1 #1726
• Update dependabot to target develop by @mathomp4 in Update dependabot to target develop #1728
• Auto GitFlow - main → develop by @github-actions in Auto GitFlow - main → develop #1727
• Feature/bmauer/complete tripolar grid factory by @bena-nasa in Feature/bmauer/complete tripolar grid factory #1697
• Extend Automatic Code Generator by @darianboggs in Extend Automatic Code Generator #1713
• Reorganize PFIO Standalone by @JulesKouatchou in Reorganize PFIO Standalone #1693
• Fixes Enforced stretched grid attributes in internal checkpoint files are in units of radians #1687. Stretched Grid checkpoint attributes should be in degrees by @mathomp4 in Fixes #1687. Stretched Grid checkpoint attributes should be in degrees #1736
• Build Docker container on release by @mathomp4 in Build Docker container on release #1724
• GitFlow: Merge Develop into Main for 2.28 Release by @mathomp4 in GitFlow: Merge Develop into Main for 2.28 Release #1741

New Contributors

• @dependabot made their first contribution in Bump actions/upload-artifact from 2 to 3 #1721

Full Changelog: v2.27.1...v2.28.0

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This discussion was created from the release MAPL 2.28.0.

[mathomp4]

@rmontuoro This should now be URL free (save for one in the new Dockerfile that, well, has to be there since we need to clone MAPL when building a Docker image).

@LiamBindle This should fix the stretched-grid checkpoint issue, though please confirm.