What's New in EFDC_Explorer
Index
2018
July – 8.4.3
July – 8.4.2
May – 8.4.1
May – 8.4
March – 8.3.2
January – 8.3.1
2017
2016
Older Releases
Release 8.4.3 (180723)
July 2018
Minor New Features
- Updated lines style for calibration plots
- Improved WQ point source loading logic
- Composite statistics updated to include toxics
Bug Fixes
- Issues related to sediment core display and editing
- Crash with unknown harmonics entry
- Crash when adding or deleting hydraulic structure cells from a g BC group
Release 8.4.2 (180710)
July 2018
Minor New Features
- 3D Collada files can change with time while animating
Bug Fixes
- WQ Limit values and Sediment Diagenesis SOD display
- Habitat issue when working with Channel Index
- High frequency and correlation plot issue
- Model Analysis – Tecplot file import issue; compare model with ADCP file
Release 8.4.1 (180524)
May 2018
Bug Fixes
- Incorrect QC for ASER and WSER when checking BCs
- Improved display of mass balance
- Issues when comparing models
- Polyline editor and panning issue
- Habitat timing on x-axis
- Habitat legend display
- Table in Time-variable hydraulic structures not saved
- Name in the Control-rule hydraulic structure not saved
- English Units, temperature not change from 0 C to 0 F
Release 8.4 (180510)
May 2018
Major New Features
- Habitat analysis with critical limits time series
- Habitat Suitability Criteria (HSC) analysis with Instream Flow Incremental Method (IFIM)
- Time variable and rule-based control of sluice gates
- Rule-based control of the withdrawal/return boundary
Minor New Features
- Improved structure for EFDC+ output files for increased reading speed and logic.
- Spatially variable AHD and AHO
- Momentum option for the flow boundary type
- Groundwater linked to mass balance
- Elevation specified – Free tangential open boundary condition
- Whole channel rating curve option
- Improved calibration tools for statistics, plotting formats, sub-periods
- Ability to edit and save KML files in EE.
- Saved plots features
Bug Fixes
- TP and TN were not being displayed in boundary condition time series
- Spatially varying RPEM not updating correctly.
Release 8.3.2 (180313)
March 2018
Bug Fixes
- Misspelling in the code that alerted virus checkers
- Incorrect reading sediment output files when changing sediment linkage frequency
- Issue with lat/long being reset after saving new model
- Crash when RMC on X-Axis of time series comparisons
- Model path issue when changing default notepad
- Issue with long model path being truncated
- Error generating image file when “Automatically Generate Defined Plots” for Cruise Plots
- Not able export data automatically from correlation plots
- Error statistics issue for correlation plots
- Process to ordering XData in series data
- Wave values not saving to file
- Ability to compare models that use different active modules
Release 8.3.1 (180104)
January 2018
Bug Fixes
- Sediment model with SWAN issue
- ViewProfile – sediment bed exaggeration
- View3D – water column display and 3D clipping by value
- Define layer for high frequency snapshots time series
- ViewPlan- Stop Extraction (day) when using Wave Parameters option
- Wave model display (Sediment parameter + Steady Wave option)
- Numbering displayed in wind map weighting not clear
- EFDC Input Tides issue, and import harconst.ee file
- Time series – set angle to Y axis and default line formatting
- Atmospheric shading issue
Release 8.3.0 (171009)
October 2017
Major New Features
- Mass balance conserved in SEDZLJ sediment sub-model
- Toxics capability added to the SEDZLJ sediment sub-model
- Volatilization and Biodegradation added to toxics
- Sigma-Zed sub-model enhanced to support one vertical layer
- Sigma-Zed sub-model linkage files to exclude unused vertical layers
Minor New Features
- Rooted Plant and Epiphyte sub-model initialization
- Continuation runs updated for enhanced Sigma-Zed and SEDZLJ models
- Saved plots feature updated
- Added new boundary condition options for SWAN Input Settings
- Extract vertical profiles of water column data in the format needed by EE for using profiles for setting IC’s.
- Vertical Profile display option
- Tool for smooth open boundary conditions
- Jet plume interface updates
- Updates to GUI for toxics and new option to set initial conditions for DOC and POC.
- Added growth factor for Dynamic Time Stepping
- Can set bottom layer for SGZ in ViewPlan edit at bottom of form.
- Reset uniform layers function for Sigma-Zed
Bug Fixes
- COD decay rate consistent across forms
- RPEM output and linkage issues
Release 8.2.5 (170704)
July 2017
Bug Fixes
- Crash when load too many points from ViewPlan into velocity time series
- Crash when delete lines in Line Control Options for velocity time series
Release 8.2.4 (170703)
July 2017
Updates and Modifications
- Added the option to export the boundary conditions for running SWAN when using the EE “Export SWAN” function.
Bug Fixes
- Minor issues with jet/plume BC interface which flagged the W/R series as bad (ICAL=2)
- W/R BC editing form resetting the table back to “None”.
- Harmonic BC crash in editor
Release 8.2.3 (170627)
June 2017
Bug Fixes
- SWAN invalid file path
- Jetplume interface crash
- RGFgrid export causing slight distortion
- Line format when importing time series data
- Bottom elevation legend display in bounday conditions viewing option in ViewPlan
- Input for harmonic tides issue
- NetCDF writing VELY & VELZ issue
- Wave data initialization when double click icon
Release 8.2.2
February 2017
Updates and Modifications
- Revised SGZ cell face metrics to better handle fluctuating WLs (EFDC+)
- Update to SEDZLJ for erosion/deposition and bedload to correct mass balance (EFDC+)
- Removed MORPHJ
- Note that this requires a change to the EFDC.INP file so all models need to be saved before running for this release.
- Layer controls hidden after selecting top layer of sediment
- Added a check for viewing when water depth has not been initialized
- License updates
Bug Fixes
- ViewPlan – Show/Hide Legend
- ViewPlan – Velocity time series crash
- View3D – waves, toxics, water surface, WQ and legend display issues
- Vertical profile plot display issue
- Load marker issue for time series plots
- Only check wind timing if nWser>1
- Open BC vertical velocities bug (EFDC+)
- Changed calheat to treat dry cells (EFDC+)
- Bug fixed for WNDWHT and rearranged indices (EFDC+)
- Hydraulic structure issue (EFDC+)
- Bug when ISTOPT(2) =0 (EFDC+)
- Changed the the order of the variables reading from C1A (EFDC+)
Release 8.2.1
January 2017
Bug Fixes
- WQ variable initialization issue when turn on WQ module
- Not save correct WQ BC grouping when opening from VEFDC model
- Crash EE when view multiple velocity TS from ViewPlan
- Time series calibration settings not saved
- WQ light extinction values not being updated when modified in another form
- EE could not browse to the root directory level
- Scrambled model path when double click EE icon from model folder
- NS-EW connection issue
- Issue reading toxics file DOCW.INP
Release 8.2.0
November 2016
Major New Features
- SEDZLJ Sediment Sub-model in EE
- Marine & Hydrokinetics Sub-model in EE
- netCDF Output from EFDC+
- Atmospheric Pressure Impacts on Hydrodynamics
- New Temperature Sub-Model Heat Balance Option
Minor New Features
- Station weighting improvements for Wind/Ice/Atmospheric data files
- Drifter Count Tool – Count drifters in a user specified area
- Temperature sub-model user interface improvements
- Improvement to 3D display options
- Simplified numerical options
- Vertical profile plots for presentation in Vertical Profile Tool
- Added ability to correctly load VEFDC models
Updates and Modifications
- Major update to View3D color ramps using array for viewing options
- New Open BC feature to flatten bathymetry adjacent to BC group cells
- Improvements to View3D georeferenced background images
- UTM Zone and Model Centroid defaults and functionality
- Modifications to method and autoscale for orthogonal deviation
- Warning that for vertical profiles plots require 3 or more points
- Alert if missing the start of the simulation period
- Export oil values in LPT viewing option to the KML file
- Shortcut key for license manager (F3)
Bug Fixes
- Cruise plots display in SGZ
- Viewing series data with comparison model
- Issue of reporting bug when a bad project is found
- Issue of deleting first line in wind series then deleting other series
- Could not save anemometer height when switching wind series
- Longitudinal profile tool to plot ice thickness
- Time series calibration for ice issue
- ATM series selection, TWet was not saved
- EE display on task manager of Windows 10
- Fixed WaveAngle, added WaveLength for Internal Waves
- Legend disappearing
- Read wrong time from SWAN model
- View3D display of magnitude and legend when animating
- Display 3D grid when clipping by value
- Crash when using statistics tool
- Issue when getting values on ViewPlan Water by Depth Option
- Critical Habitat legend issue
- Correct wrong assignment for solar radiation
- Enable cell edit in ViewPlan Water by layer option
- Updates to Critical habitat to work with WQ and water depth
- Reading calibration file with empty lines
- Issues with KC and KB when using in pointer calculations (converted to Long)
Release 8.1.3
September 2016
Updates and Modifications
- Enable cell edit for Water by layer
- Vertical Profile Plots now allow change to width/height of form with Ctrl+W
- Update name of View3D Viewing Options for color ramps
- Updates to #output location (EFDCPlus)
Bug Fixes
- Timing frame location in Trial Version
- Critical Habitat legend issue in ViewPlan
- View3D WC display for Sigma Zed
- Corrected wrong assignment for Solar Radiation
- Issues with KC and KB when using in pointer calculations
- Fixed TFAST/TSLOW bug for Full Heat Balance (EFDCPlus)
- Lagrangian Partical tracking issues in Sigma Zed (EFDCPlus)
Release 8.1.2
August 2016
Updates and Modifications
- Updates to dongle licensing
- Clean and format activation log
- Changes to clearly apply Z for View3D
- Lagrangian Particle Tracking updates
- Added more QC for particle generation
- Updated some messages and tooltips
- DrifterView = 3 as the default
- Exporting function for SHP and KML
- Change View3D for oil and ice color setting effect to follow the primary, secondary, tertiary color ramp settings
- Moved banner setting to general 3D options
- Update Save Plot for Velocity Map
- Minor modification to the local SegElev array in View3D to make more consistent
Notes
- Full deactivation and reinstallation required if updating from 8.1.0 or earlier
- Known bug with scrambeld model path when double clicking EFDC.EE icon to open in some machines
Bug Fixes
- Crash if update UTM location
- Bed temperature flags when editing variable T and Thermal Thickness
- Bug with loading WQ benthic maps when IC*JC > Integer short
- Changed the DryLoss summary (EFDCPlus)
- Drifter going through hydraulic structure BCs (EFDCPlus)
- Fixed LPT in View3D when displaying with color elevation option
Release 8.1.1
August 2016
Updates and Modifications
- Fix particles to bed after deposition option (EFDCPlus)
- Allow particles to not move with water depth (EFDCPlus)
- Improved the writing of the QSER file for SGZ models
- Updated wrapper for proxy
- Added contour ratio option
- LPT distribute drifters timing toggle
- Added triangular cell for gradient fill
Notes
- Full deactivation and reinstallation required when updating to this version.
Bug Fixes
- Toxics precision issue
- Particle color/legend issue
- Apply all cells in BC Flow group issue.
- BC popup displays many times/EE crashes when show BC
- Show contour legend
- Legend automatic zoom in when turning on contours
- Contour line formating issues
- ViewPlan: legend with All Layers & Bottom Layer options
- View3D legend number format issue,
- View3D particles issues
- View3D inquire function
- Updates to dongle message
- Import CVL grid(s) bugs
- CH3D grid import problem, generate grid problem, crash problem when load some EE7_2 model
- Import Delft Grid bug
- A problem with volume versus area weighting for water column
- Bug with trying to set range for the wrong SedShow option
- Minor ViewPlan inset updates
- Velocity anchor, legend when rotate the model
- Bug with time series plots of bed temperature and surface water temperature
- Issue with editing bottom layer for SGZ models
- Issue with displaying algal limiting factors for SGZ models when K < KL
- Update for atmospheric option
- Fixed velocities when compare models
- Updated the save/load setting for ViewProfile
- Load/save layout setting on vertical profile issue
- Fixed NetCDF export from EE
- Update I,J for NetCDF
- Add a check to deal with crash when set bottom for larger .bil file
- Issues with wet/dry
- Fixed HDMF to all cells
- 3TL issues (EFDCPlus)
Release 8.1.0
July 2016
New Features
- Offline/dongle activation
- SEDZLJ input display
- Time series cell list feature
- Simplifed line formatting in time series plotting
- Automatically change zone of wind station
Bug Fixes
- netCDF export from EE when cell buffer less than 3.
- View3D generate DEM issues
- View3D viewer auto ramp feature
- View3D Velocity banner scale
- View3D display of masks issue
- Did not use shape file to set vegetation class correctly
- Autoscale with view feature did not work well
- Legend text when plotting time series
- Velocity vector display incorrect in some cases
- Gradient fill feature did not work when showing oil
- Export metafile after resizing frame
- Longitudinal profiles plots feature issue in some cases
- ViewProfile: show plan view not working
- Contouring color ramp not assigned for the legend (ViewPlan)
- Polygon editor crash
- Model rotation interfered with other functions in ViewPlan
- Contour color ramp was not assigned to the legend
Release 8.0.3
June 2016
Updates and Modifications
- Major updates to ViewPlan and View3D layout saving and loading
- Timing frames save and load more consistently
- Description for Weighting Map
- Updated EFDC_BC to work better for selecting and deleting BC groups
- Added better QSER treatment with Sigma Zed
- Shortcut to delete the license file in special cases
- Get color ramp types
- Line editing updates (iSelectLine)
Bug Fixes
- Longitudinal profile not updating for toxics/sediments and with multiple layers
- QSER.INP writing when KC=1
- ViewPlan zooming and rotating issues (display angle <> 0)
- Rotation with rotated labels
- Crash when edit blank annotation labels
- Wave initialization message when run model
- Velocity legend when all layers selected
- Generate model options blacked on Windows XP
- Load GVC model issue for one case
- Ice model crash for one case
- “Use Raw Data” option for ADCP Vector Plots
- Wind timing frame when view time series
- Wind timing with rotation and animation
- Layout setting on FixedParams in ViewPlan
- Timing frame XY plotting to eliminate the old TSTEP approach
- ViewProfile vector display bug
- Default font color issue
- Timing issue (Go time)
- Fix contour when viewing “% Irradiance Water”
- Corrected Residual/Mean mass transport options
- Update ContourSetRamp when loading/saving views and for MMT/Residuals
- Fixed Contour Plot key issue, legend
- Velocity vector jumps outside frame when animating
- Several issues with the polyline editing tools in ViewPlan
- View3D georeferencing, button/menu behaviors
- Residual plot when change timing(scrlTime) while Residual turn on
- ViewPlan, Velocity All Layers legend display issue
- Particle tracking position issue
- Loading velocity with high frequency when depth averaged
- EE_SEZIJ.OUT and bugs from Yong Bok model (EFDC+)
- Bug in SETBCS that caused the velocities to be reported as 0 (EFDC+)
- Reverted to Jacobian matrix to 073_OMP code (EFDC+)
Release 8.0.2
May 2016
Bug Fixes
- Issue with velocity not being output for some models
Release 8.0.1
April 2016
Updates and Modifications
- Licensing and activation updates
- Loading 3D GeoDEM surface file
- Loading and displaying 3D structures (COLLADA) and added materials and effects
Bug Fixes
- Loading comparsion model issues, load data file for calibration
- Added Internal Arrays to the ViewProfile
- Corrected correlation plot issue
- Added wave default values to the EFDC.MDB initialization process
- Corrected wave variable issues and display in ViewPlan
- Added tooltips for AHO option
- Timeseries Comparison Plots issue
- Loading EE_BC output
- Issue with time series plotting for multiple series
- Crash when open timing frame in View3D
- Removed duplicated calling of Rebuild3D function
- Greek Symbols issue in BC’s and set focus bug
- Fixed some minor issues with Overlays
- Corrected caltoxb.f90 issue
- Updated wet/dry issues with HKP/H1PK (EFDC)
- Updated caltran.f90 for the anti-diffusion (nuanced) approach
- Fixed some windwave issues when using SGZ (EFDC)
- Added LLAD/LKAD variables (EFDC)
- Removed vegetation from open BC cells (EFDC)
Release 8.0.0
March 2016
New Features
- Sigma Zed EFDC Model integrated into EFDC+
- OMP Model now part of EFDC+
- Enhanced hydraulic structures including culverts and bridges (EFDC+ and EE8)
- East-West connectors (EFDC+ and EE8)
- Map file enhancement (EFDC+ and EE8)
- Spatially variable background diffusivity (AHO)
- Rooted Plant and Epiphyte Model (RPEM) in calibration plots
- Import and display COLLADA structures in View3D
- Time series plots for boundary conditions
- Improved drifters visualization for large number of drifters
- Use of pointers for water surface elevations (WSEL) to display larger models
- Licensing changes
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