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The dates of these release notes concern maintenance operations on SoDa main server, i.e. on www.soda-pro.com, and last a few hours. The same maintenance operations are carried out on the mirror website (www.tsv.soda-pro.com) on the next day. Users who are using CAMS solar products database are informed by email a few days before, and also as soon as the SoDa Service is back to normal.



2023-10-17

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#1048

CAMS Radiation Service for HIMAWARI field of view

On 2023-10-17, the CAMS Radiation Service for HIMAWARI satellite field of view will open officially.

CAMS Radiation Service API is unchanged. See the documentation at https://www.soda-pro.com/help/cams-services/cams-radiation-service/automatic-access 

Feel free to contact soda@transvalor.com for more details.

Enjoy :-)

#1035

New error messages for CAMS Radiation and McClear services

In order to support HIMAWARI satellite, SoDa will switch on 2023-10-17 to a new version of CAMS Radiation and McClear services. This will be mostly transparent for users, except error messages that are modified (new XML file format).

Please adapt your error handling code if you use CAMS Radiation and McClear services API.

See the API documentation at:
- https://www.soda-pro.com/help/cams-services/cams-radiation-service/automatic-access 
- https://www.soda-pro.com/help/cams-services/cams-mcclear-service/automatic-access

Please adapt your error handling code if you use CAMS Radiation and McClear services API


2023-07-03

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#1048

Beta test: CAMS Radiation Service for HIMAWARI field of view

On 2023-07-03, the CAMS Radiation Service for HIMAWARI satellite field of view will open in beta test.

CAMS Radiation Service API is unchanged. See the documentation at https://www.soda-pro.com/help/cams-services/cams-radiation-service/automatic-access 

Feel free to contact soda@transvalor.com for more details.

 Your feedback is welcome

#1035

New error messages for CAMS Radiation and McClear services

In order to support HIMAWARI satellite, SoDa will switch on 2023-07-03 to new servers hosting CAMS Radiation and McClear services. This will be mostly transparent for end users, except error messages that are modified.

To adapt your acquisition routine, you may already check new messages by using the test server http://vhost5.soda-is.com instead of the classic server https://api.soda-solardata.com.

See the complete documentation at:
- https://www.soda-pro.com/help/cams-services/cams-radiation-service/automatic-access 
- https://www.soda-pro.com/help/cams-services/cams-mcclear-service/automatic-access

Please adapt your code

#1045New version CAMS Radiation Service 4.6

New improved version of CAMS Radiation Service all sky model. This version 4.6 uses the new version 48r1 of CAMS IFS numerical weather introduced on 2023-06-27.

Please note that a new column SOAOD550 has been added to the csv output format of the Expert mode.

Enjoy :-)
#1031Bug in CAMS Radiation Service gap fillingWe fixed a bug in the interpolation of missing APOLLO_NG cloud data in CAMS Radiation Service. This modifies slightly CAMS Radiation Service output at sunset and sunrise.-
#1030Bug in CAMS Radiation Service cloud type

In CAMS Radiation Service verbose mode, cloud type was 5=low-level cloud on clear sky instants. It should be 0.

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#1045New version McClear 3.6

New improved version of McClear clear sky model. This version 3.6 uses the new version 48r1 of CAMS IFS numerical weather introduced on 2023-06-27.

Data prior to 2023-06-27 are unchanged.

Please note that a new column SOAOD550 has been added to the csv output format of the Expert mode.

Enjoy :-)


2023-03-22

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#1019
#917
#32

https://api.soda-solardata.com

A load balancer has been set up, it will ease your usage of the CAMS services :

https://api.soda-solardata.com

The examples of scripts are updated (see url : https://www.soda-pro.com/help/automatic-access/examples-of-scripts )

 

#990

McClear monthly request in TST time reference

McClear now accept requests in TST for monthly time step.

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2022-11-29

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#520

2nd APOLLO_NG processing chain

CAMS Radiation Service uses internally APOLLO_NG model from DLR to compute clouds opacity. Since 10/26/2022, CAMS Radiation Service uses a second APOLLO_NG production chain to improve redundancy.

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2022-09-06

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#996New version CAMS Radiation Service 4.5

New improved version of CAMS Radiation Service all sky model. This version 4.5 uses a better clear sky model (McClear 3.5, see below) and no bias correction anymore.

Enjoy :-)
#995New version McClear 3.5

New improved version of McClear clear sky model. This version 3.5 reduces the bias wrt ground measurements thanks to CAMS IFS Reanalysis data provided by ECMWF.

Enjoy :-)
#947Bug fix in CAMS-AOD form

The CAMS-AOD service, delivers time series of Aerosol Optical Depth provided by ECMWF. This service is available from 2004 to 2021-06-30.

The end date has been fixed in CAMS-AOD form https://www.soda-pro.com/web-services/atmosphere/cams-aod

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2022-06-15

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#854

http://www.soda-is.com​​​​​​​ switching to https

On 2022-06-15, SoDa web services server http://www.soda-is.com​​​​​​​ will switch to https.
If you use SoDa and CAMS services only via https://www.soda-pro.com web site, you are fine.
If you use SoDa/CAMS services automatic access, i.e. if you directly call SoDa/CAMS web services, you will have to adapt your code.

On 2022-06-15:

We will keep both http://www.soda-is.com and https://www.soda-is.com running for several months, and you will have plenty of time to adapt your code to https://www.soda-is.com after the upgrade.

If you use SoDa/CAMS services automatic access, i.e. if you directly call SoDa/CAMS web services, you will have to adapt your code.

#848

New fields in user profile

The CAMS Radiation and McClear services are funded by the CAMS project of the European Union. The EU requires addditional information about CAMS users: country and type of company.

Please fill in the new information at your next visit on www.soda-pro.com


2022-02-09

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#854

http://www.soda-pro.com​​​​​​​ and http://solar.atmosphere.copernicus.eu switching to https

On 2022-02-09, http://www.soda-pro.com​​​​​​​ and http://solar.atmosphere.copernicus.eu will switch to https. This change should be transparent to SoDa users.

Please note that SoDa web services server http://www.soda-is.com will not switch to https on 2022-02-09. This is planned for the next SoDa upgrade, in March 2022.

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2021-11-03

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#857
 

Upgrade of Liferay CMS (hosting www.soda-pro.com) to version 7.3

www.soda-pro.com web site is implemented in a Content Management System named Liferay.

On 2021-11-03, www.soda-pro.com switches to Liferay 7.3. This change should be transparent to CAMS users.

This is a technical step necessary to the future switch to https.

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#860

General Data Protection Regulation

In compliance with European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), SoDa has always limited the collection of personal data to what is strictly necessary.

This point is now documented on www.soda-pro.com, incuding the cookies used by the web site.

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#793End of support of Bing maps in www.soda-pro.comSince a change in Microsoft Bing in 2020, the support of Bing maps in www.soda-pro.com was not reliable. We decided to removed Bing maps from www.soda-pro.com.-
#925Gap in Apollo data

We faced a gap in APOLLO data from 2021-10-20 to 2021-10-28. This gap is fixed since 2021-10-31.

Please redo CAMS radiation requests for the period 2021-10-20 to 2021-10-28


#900

Upgrade of CAMS IFS meteo model to version 47r3 on 2021-10-12

McClear clear-sky model uses a description of the atmosphere provided by CAMS IFS meteo model.

ECMWF upgraded CAMS IFS meteo model to version 47r3 on 2021-10-12. This will improve slightly McClear clear-sky model (and Helioclim-3 v5 and CAMS Radiation models that use McClear) for future requests.

Note that data before 2021-10-12 are not modified.

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2021-06-28

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#235
#813
#867
 

Brand new version 4.0 of CAMS Radiation Service

Since 2013, CAMS Radiation service uses a cloud model named APOLLO provided by the DLR research lab. The version 4.0 of CAMS Radiation Service includes a new version APOLLO Next Generation that improves cloud detection using fuzzy logic.

CAMS Radiation Service 4.0 fixes the MSG satellite projection before 12/2017.

CAMS Radiation Service 4.0 includes also a brand new global correction that minimizes the error with respect to ground measurements.

Please redo all CAMS Radiation Service requests since 2004 to get version 4.0 improvements


#690

Improved McClear clear-sky model in 07/2019 - 09/2020 period

McClear clear-sky model uses a description of the atmosphere provided by CAMS IFS meteo model.

During 07/2019 - 09/2020 period, the version 46r1 of CAMS IFS did not evaluate accurately the amount of dust in the atmosphere. This lowered the quality of McClear in desertic regions.

This bug is fixed in CAMS IFS since version 47r1 in October 2020.

Since 2021-06-28, we also fixed the 07/2019 - 09/2020 period.
As CAMS Radiation Service uses McClear, this fix also applies to this service.

Please redo CAMS Radiation Service and McClear requests for the 07/2019 - 09/2020 period
#883Gap in Apollo data

We faced a gap in APOLLO data from 2021-06-12 to 2021-06-16. This gap is fixed since 2021-06-17.

Please redo CAMS radiation requests for the period 2021-06-12 to 2021-06-16
#884Fix in CAMS Radiation ServiceWe fixed a rare bug of CAMS Radiation Service where GHI was not equal to BHI + DHI.-

2020-11-10

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#808
#802
Site www.soda-pro.comImprovements of the web site security. Some accounts detected as robots have been removed.Please contact support-sales@soda-is.com if your email has been removed by error.
#800
#792
Gaps in Apollo data

CAMS Radiation service uses a cloud model named Apollo provided by the DLR research lab.


We faced a gap in Apollo data from 2020-07-16 to 2020-07-27. This gap is fixed since 2020-08-06.


An outage due to fire alarm occured at DLR premises on 2020-09-13, creating a gap from 09/12 21h15 to 09/14 12h00. This gap is fixed since 2020-09-17
Please redo CAMS radiation requests for periods 2020-07-16 to 2020-07-27 and from 2020-09-12 to 2020-09-14

2020-06-24

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#728
#749
#752
#757
Optimization of all web servicesWe have optimized the speed of all web services and lowered Apache web server load.
This makes CAMS web services faster and more reliable.
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2020-04-23

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#778New CAMS-PM and CAMS-UV web servicesWe have implemented 2 new web services CAMS-PM and CAMS-UV that provide particulate matters (PM) and ultraviolet (UV) data from CAMS IFS meteorological model. The purpose is to help the QEERI research lab study the Covid-19 coronavirus.-

#775

CAMS Radiation and McClear requests very slow from SoDa server mirrorCAMS Radiation and McClear requests were very slow recently from SoDa server mirror (http://pro.soda-is.com / www.tsv.soda-pro.com). This bug is now fixed.-
#773Incorrect altitude in Scandinavia for CAMS Radiation and McClear servicesAltitude was not computed correctly in Scandinavia (and more generally north of 60° and south of -56°) for CAMS Radiation and McClear services. This bug is now fixed.-
#200Email "http://www.soda-pro.com: Email Address Verification" not receivedWhen registering to www.soda-pro.com, some users did not receive the confirmation email "http://www.soda-pro.com: Email Address Verification". This bug is now fixed.-

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2020-03-25

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#738SoDa server at MINES ParisTech premises slow from 2019-12-13 to 2019-12-16We fixed a bug that made SoDa server at MINES ParisTech premises slow from 2019-12-13 to 2019-12-16, during a maintenance operation of SoDa server at Transvalor premises.-

#728
#749
#752

Random failures of www.soda-pro.com and www.soda-is.com since 2019-11-13

SoDa server at MINES ParisTech premises (hosting www.soda-pro.com and www.soda-is.com) faces random failures since 2019-11-13.

The problem is due to SoDa users doing (too many) requests in parallel.

This update implements a partial fix.

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#747Update of CAMS Radiation Service User GuideA new version of CAMS Radiation Service User Guide is available at http://www.soda-pro.com/web-services/radiation/cams-radiation-service/info
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2019-12-27 Incident

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#741

Maintenance operation at the DLR premises from 2019-12-27 to 2019-12-31

CAMS Radiation Service has not been updated from 2019-12-27 to 2019-12-31 due to a large maintenance operation at the DLR premises. The DLR is the research lab that operates Apollo, the cloud model used by CAMS Radiation Service.

The missing data have been recomputed and the gap is filled since 2020-01-08.

Please redo CAMS radiation requests for period 2019-12-27 to 2019-12-31

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2019-12-02

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#734

New version of CAMS Radiation volumes over Europe and Africa with 2017 and 2018

A new version of CAMS Radiation volumes over Europe and Africa is available. We have added 2017 and 2018.

See http://www.soda-pro.com/help/cams-services/cams-radiation-service/download-europe-volume and http://www.soda-pro.com/help/cams-services/cams-radiation-service/download-africa-volume

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2019-10-14

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#706

CAMS monitoring

Cams/McClear monitoring was on error for un-requested too long period.

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#720CAMS monitoringBug in internal CAMS monitoring tools.-
#700ECMWF AOD monitoringECMWF AOD monitoring bug since 2019-07-03-

#701

#702

#708

Apollo data are missing

Apollo data are missing on

- 2019-07-04, 2019-07-27 and 2019-07-28

- 2019-08-12 and 2019-08-13

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#718Electrical problem on SoDa main server (www.soda-pro.com) on 2019-09-29An electrical problem.web services failures on 2019-09-29

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2019-08-13 Incident

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#707

#711

#716

Electrical and network maintenance on SoDa main server (www.soda-pro.com) on 2019-08-13

An electrical maintenance and a network maintenance occured on SoDa main server (www.soda-pro.com) on 2019-08-13. Unfortunately, this maintenance created intermittent network failures on 2019-08-14 and from 2019-08-29 to 2019-09-03. This problem is fixed since 2019-09-03.

Intermittent web services failures on 2019-08-14 and from 2019-08-29 to 2019-09-03

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2019-07-03 Release

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#690

CAMS IFS upgrade 46r1 on 2019-07-09

McClear, CAMS Radiation and HelioClim-3 v5 use the modelisation of the atmosphere computed by CAMS IFS meteorological model. This model will be upgraded to version 46r1 on 2019-07-09. The main impact to McClear, CAMS Radiation and HelioClim-3 v5 will be the new modelisation of nitrate and ammonium in the atmosphere. See details at https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/COPSRV/Implementation+of+IFS+cycle+46r1

2019-07-03 upgrade of www.soda-pro.com provides the compatibility of McClear, CAMS Radiation and HelioClim-3 v5 with CAMS IFS upgrade 46r1.

McClear, CAMS Radiation and HelioClim-3 v5 output values will be unchanged before 2019-07-09. After this date, these models error will be slightly reduced.

Please note the addition of nitrate and ammonium to the output formats of McClear and CAMS Radiation (mode "verbose" only) and to the output format of CAMS AOD service.

McClear, CAMS Radiation and HelioClim-3 v5 output values will be unchanged before 2019-07-09. After this date, these models error will be slightly reduced.

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2019-05-28 Release

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#673

CAMS radiation cloud data

CAMS radiation cloud data were not processed 2019-04-01 and 2019-04-02. This is now fixed

Please redo CAMS radiation requests for period overlapping 2019-04-01 or 2019-04-02.

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2019-03-26 Release

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#669

CAMS Radiation request for lat=-80, lon=180 should return an error

CAMS Radiation web service is valid in Meteosat 0 deg satellite disk only. The service used to return values outside of this disk.
This is now fixed.

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#665

Integration of CAMS Radiation and McClear services into CAMS Atmospheric Data Store

CAMS european project is developing a new web site named Atmospheric Data Store that will be a central point to call the services developed in the scope of this project. CAMS Radiation and McClear services will be available via CAMS Atmospheric Data Store.CAMS Atmospheric Data Store is planned for mid-2019
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CAMS template 12/2018

http://www.soda-pro.com/web-services/radiation/cams-radiation-service and http://www.soda-pro.com/web-services/radiation/cams-mcclear use now the new template of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (http://atmosphere.copernicus.eu) that funded these services.-
#668Disk full errors in Apollo cloud data processing on 2019-03-04We noticed on 2019-03-14 that an error occured in Apollo cloud data processing on 2019-03-04 and reprocessed the data.CAMS Radiation users who did requests between 2019-03-04 and 2019-03-14
 should redo the requests
#667Missing values (nan) in CAMS Radiation service for 2019-03-10 on 2019-03-12Apollo cloud data for 2019-03-10 have not been processed properly on 2019-03-12.
The bug has been fixed on 2019-03-13.
CAMS Radiation users who did requests on 2019-03-12
 should redo the requests
#566Increase CAMS Radiation limit to 75 requests per user and per dayEarly 2019, we increased CAMS Radiation limit to 75 requests per user and per dayEnjoy :-)
#528Include the generation date in CAMS Radiation and McClear output

CAMS Radiation and McClear .csv requests contain now a new header line with the computation date

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2018-12-10 Release  

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#278McClear / CAMS Radiation do not provide values for monthly TST requests

In case of McClear or CAMS Radiation monthly TST requests values used to be undefined (NaN).

This is now fixed.

McClear/CAMS Radiation users who did 'monthly TST requests'
 should redo the requests
#339Some days are missing in Apollo HDF5 database in 2004-2011 period

CAMS Radiation service uses a model named Apollo from the DLR to compute clouds. Apollo cloud data were not properly processed on 2015-05-07, 2015-09-07 and 2015-09-08.
This is now fixed.

CAMS Radiation users who did requests on 2015-05-07, 2015-09-07 or 2015-09-08
 should redo the requests

#642

When cloud optical depth is 0, CAMS Radiation prints it as NaN

This bug occurs with CAMS Radiation verbose mode.

CAMS Radiation users who did requests with verbose mode
 should redo the requests
#649OpenStreetMap world map is missing on IE 11 on Windows 7 since 2018-11

A bug occurs in the latest version (11.0.96) of Internet Explorer on Windows 7: OpenStreetMap world map is not displayed properly.

This problem is fixed by displaying an alternate map for IE 11: OpenStreetMap Hot.

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#643Since 2018-06-11, Google Maps is not free anymoreWe do not use Google maps in www.soda-pro.com anymore.-

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2018-09-26 Release  

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#435McClear and CAMS Radiation WPS broken on www.tsv.soda-pro.com when www.soda-pro.com is down

www.tsv.soda-pro.com is a mirror of www.soda-pro.com.

We fixed a bug: McClear and CAMS Radiation WPS did not work on www.tsv.soda-pro.com when www.soda-pro.com is down.

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#618Error message not clear if wrong email encoding in CAMS Radiation and McClear services

A classic error when using CAMS Radiation and McClear WPS is to forget to encode the "@" character.

We detect now this error and return a proper error message.

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#601CAMS Radiation Service when no cloud data are available

Since 2018-06-20, CAMS Radiation Service notifies gaps in Apollo cloud data by:

  • large gaps (1 full day or more) are not filled and are notified with irradiation=NaN
  • gaps smaller than 1 day are filled and are notified with reliability=0

A side effect was that monthly irradiation are equal to NaN as soon as one day of Apollo data is missing.

As our users notified us that this behavior is not user-friendly, we restored the gap filling for monthly requests.

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#635

Cloud coverage value in CAMS Radiation Service can be unspecified

 

In verbose mode, CAMS Radiation service outputs a Cloud coverage value.

It can be unspecified. Up to now, in such case CAMS Radiation Service returned 0. Now, "unspecified value" is -1.

So possible values for cloud coverage are :

  • [0; 100] : for valid value.
  • -1 : if not specified,
For CAMS Radiation users using "cloud coverage":
users should redo CAMS Radiation requests

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2018-06-20 Release  

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#595Bug in Meteosat satellite projection of CAMS Radiation Service

We fixed a mathematical bug in the (latitude, longitude) position of the pixels of the Meteosat satellite images.

This fix changes (a little) the result of all CAMS Radiation requests.

CAMS Radiation Service version number is increased to 3.2.

If possible, users should redo all CAMS Radiation requests
#605Apollo data missing partly since 2018-06-01

CAMS Radiation service uses a model named Apollo from the DLR to compute clouds. Since 2018-06-01, the DLR is experiencing problems to retrieve the Meteosat satellite images on time.

UPDATE: this problem is fixed since 2018-06-21.

Since 2018-06-01, CAMS Radiation service is available with a delay (d-3 instead of d-2)
#601CAMS Radiation Service when no cloud data are available

So far, CAMS Radiation Service sometimes notified a gap with irradiation=NaN and sometimes with reliability=0.

This new version is more coherent:

  • large gaps (1 full day or more) are not filled and are notified with irradiation=NaN
  • gaps smaller than 1 day are filled and are notified with reliability=0
The new version of CAMS Radiation Service notifies large gaps (1 full day or more) with irradiation=NaN
#604C-IFS meteorological model upgrade 45R1_CAMS on 2018-06-26

McClear, CAMS Radiation and Helioclim-3 version 5 use aerosols, ozone and water vapor computed by the C-IFS meteorological model from ECMWF.

This model will be updated on 2018-06-26.

This upgrade will be transparent to McClear, CAMS Radiation and hc3v5 users

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2018-03-27 Release  

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#370
#588
McClear v3.1

We fixed a few bugs in McClear clear sky model. The results are slightly modified in October 2012 and September-November 2015.
We increased McClear version number to 3.1.

This change in McClear modifies also CAMS Radiation and Helioclim-3 models.

This fix leads to a very small change in the values computed by McClear, CAMS Radiation and hc3v5 services
#544Bug #544 Apollo slots are missing since 2017-10-21

CAMS Radiation service uses a model named Apollo from the DLR to compute clouds. On 2017-10-21, a fire occured in the DLR server room.

From this date to 2018-02-23, the DLR has ben able able to provide us cloud data with a delay (typically up to d-3 instead of d-2).

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2018-01-24 Release  

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#566

#566 Increase CAMS Radiation limit to 40 requests per day

CAMS  Radiation service was limited to 25 requests per day. This limit is raised to 40 requests per day.Enjoy!
#563Fixed bug #563 "http://solar.atmosphere.copernicus.eu not available"

From 2018-01-10 to 2018-01-17, the web site http://solar.atmosphere.copernicus.eu was not available.

http://solar.atmosphere.copernicus.eu is a subset of www.soda-pro.com with only CAMS Radiation and McClear services.

From 2018-01-10 to 2018-01-17, CAMS Radiation and McClear services were available via www.soda-pro.com only
#555

Fixed bug #555 "Since 2017-11-22 update, CAMS and MERRA forms are not displayed in Chrome"

The 2017-11-22 update broke some CAMS and MERRA web services in www.soda-pro.com. This is now fixed.No impact
#544Bug #544 Apollo slots are missing since 2017-10-21

CAMS Radiation service uses a model named Apollo from the DLR to compute clouds. On 2017-10-21, a fire occured in the DLR server room. Since this date, the DLR is able to provide us cloud data with a delay (typically up to d-3 instead of d-2).

This problem is not yet fixed.

Since 2017-10-21, CAMS Radiation service is available with a delay (typically up to d-3 instead of d-2)

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2017-11-22 Release  

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#547Fixed bug #547 "McClear v3: assertion failure in compute_mcclear_kt_gc_analytics()"We fixed a small bug in McClear v3 in the computation of the irradiation at sunrise and sunset.This fix leads to a very small change in the values computed by McClear, CAMS Radiation and hc3v5 services
#548Fixed bug #548 "McClear v3: assertion failure in summer_winter_split computation on December 21st"We fixed a small bug in McClear v3 in the computation of the irradiation on December 21st.This fix leads to a very small change in the values computed by McClear, CAMS Radiation and hc3v5 services
#552Uniform handling of monthly requests when start and end dates do not define entire months

The handling of monthly requests was not uniform when start and end dates do not define entire months.
We modified Helioclim-3, Helioclim-1, MERRA-2 and GFS to enlarge partial months requests to entire months. For request overlapping current month, McClear and CAMS Radiation gave "nan" values. So for coherency purpose, the monthly requests are first cropped to full month, and the request is then run with those cropped months.

The new behavior is more user friendly

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2017-10-11 Release  

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#448New version 3 of CAMS Radiation Service

CAMS Radiation Service features a new version 3 with:

  • McClear clear sky model v3  (see #494 below)
  • An empirical bias correction algorithm aiming at reducing errors in irradiation and clearness index. It has been created by fitting functions onto measurements performed at several BSRN stations taken globally.

NB: By construction, the CAMS Radiation Service performs the calculation of the radiation on-the-fly at the request of any user. It processes on-the-fly the necessary information that is stored in CAMS and does not create a proper database of the results. Hence, the new version 3 applies from now on back to 2004-02-01.


Access:

No impact.

If possible, users should redo all past CAMS Radiation Service requests to enjoy the improvements of v3.

#494New version 3 of CAMS McClear Service

McClear clear sky model features a new version 3 that fixes discontinuities in space and time (during day as well as seasons), uses less memory and reduces (a little) the error when compared to ground measurements.

Access:

Can potentially impact HelioClim-3 version 5 by 1 to 2%.

If possible, users should redo all past CAMS McClear Service requests to enjoy the improvements of v3.
#511CAMS global forecasting system upgrade 43r3 on 2017-09-26

McClear, CAMS Radiation and HelioClim-3 version 5 services use a meteorological model from ECMWF to describe the atmosphere.
Since 2017-09-26, this model has been upgraded to version 43r3.

No impact
#521Fixed bug # 521 "ECMWF AOD error from 2017-08-27 to 2017-08-30"

McClear, CAMS Radiation and Helioclim-3 version 5 services use a meteorological model from ECMWF to describe the atmosphere.
This model is updated daily. This update has been broken from 2017-08-27 to 2017-08-30.

Users of McClear, CAMS Radiation and Helioclim-3 version 5 services that ran requests from 2017-08-27 to 2017-08-30 should redo them

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2017-03-29 Release 

ReferenceTitleDescriptionImpact for users

#434

Increment the max number of CAMS Radiation requests per day

Increment the max number of CAMS Radiation requests per day from 15 to 25.

See http://www.soda-pro.com/web-services/radiation/cams-radiation-service

CAMS Radiation users are allowed to run up to 25 requests per day :-)

#424

Create solar.atmosphere.copernicus.eu microsite

Create solar.atmosphere.copernicus.eu microsite with 2 pages:

http://solar.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-radiation-service

http://solar.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-mcclear.

No impact

#427Fixed broken link for CAMS data license on www.soda-pro.comFixed broken link for CAMS data license on www.soda-pro.com

No impact

#431Fixed bug in McClear,  CAMS Radiation and hc3v5Fixed bug #431 McClear,  CAMS Radiation and hc3v5 invalid from 2017-03-08 to 2017-03-11 on http://pro.soda-is.com serverIf possible, users should redo McClear,  CAMS Radiation and hc3v5 requests made from 2017-03-08 to 2017-03-11

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2017-02-13 Release

ReferenceTitleDescriptionImpact for users

#421

Upgrade of the CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) real-time data assimilation and forecasting system on 2017-01-24

The CAMS numeric weather model that provides inputs to McClear, CAMS Radiation and Helioclim-3 version 5 irradiation models has been improved on 2017-01-24

No impact

#415Missing data in CAMS Radiation service from 2016-12-24 to 2016-12-29CAMS Radiation Service uses Apollo Cloud model from DLR. Apollo processing server at DLR experienced troubles from 2016-12-24 to 2016-12-29, leading to missing cloud data. Gaps were filled on 2017-01-17.If possible, users should redo CAMS Radiation Service requests made from 2016-12-24 to 2017-01-17

#416

#425

Bug fixes in CAMS Radiation service monitoring

Bug fixes in CAMS Radiation service monitoring

Restricted to CAMS project members

#344The obsolete McClear and CAMS Radiation (ex MACC-RAD) web services on toolbox.webservice-energy.org have been removed today.

The McClear and CAMS Radiation (ex MACC-RAD) web services have been officially moved from toolbox.webservice-energy.org to www.soda-is.com on 2016-04-20.

We kept the old web services on toolbox.webservice-energy.org during a transition period. They have been removed today.

Users of the obsolete web services on toolbox.webservice-energy.org must upgrade their code.

See http://www.soda-pro.com/help/cams-services/cams-radiation-service/automatic-access

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2016-11-16 Release

ReferenceTitleDescriptionImpact for users

#191

Bug fixes in CAMS Radiation service monitoring when accessed from DLR

Bug fixes in CAMS Radiation service monitoring when accessed from DLR

Restricted to CAMS project members

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2016-10-18 Release

ReferenceTitleDescriptionImpact for users

#397

CAMS radiation gives different results on www.soda-is.com and pro.soda-is.com since 2016-10-05

CAMS radiation gives different results on www.soda-is.com and pro.soda-is.com since 2016-10-05

If possible, users should redo CAMS radiation requests computed by www.soda-is.com and pro.soda-is.com from 2016-10-05 to 2016-10-18

#390

Fixed McClear atmospheric profiles

Fixed weights > 1.0 and < 0.0 in McClear atmospheric profiles

No impact

#191

CAMS Radiation service monitoring works on www.soda-pro.com

CAMS Radiation service monitoring works on www.soda-pro.com

Restricted to CAMS project members

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2016-08-16 Release

ReferenceTitleDescriptionImpact for users

-

Changes in McClear and CAMS Radiation web pages

Added hyperlinks to https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/user-support-0 (now broken, March 2019) in McClear and CAMS Radiation web pages

No impact

#381


Download errors after CAMS system upgrade on 2016-06-21

After CAMS system upgrade on 2016-06-21, we encountered download errors up to 2016-08-12.

No impact

#379

Fixed bug in Apollo Cloud monitoring

Fixed bug in Apollo Cloud monitoring

Restricted to CAMS project members

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Upgrade of McClear WPS

Added verbose HDF5 output to McClear WPS

No impact

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2016-06-23 Release

ReferenceTitleDescriptionImpact for users

#369

Upgrade of the CAMS real-time data assimilation and forecasting system on 2016-06-21

The CAMS numeric weather model that provides inputs to McClear, CAMS Radiation and Helioclim-3 version 5 irradiation models has been improved on 2016-06-21. The new model uses a 0.4 degree grid (about 40 km) and computes now hourly previsions twice a day.

No impact

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2016-06-09 Release

ReferenceTitleDescriptionImpact for users

-

McClear and CAMS Radiation web pages have a new look & feel

http://www.soda-pro.com/web-services/radiation/cams-radiation-service and http://www.soda-pro.com/web-services/radiation/cams-mcclear use now the look & feel of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (http://atmosphere.copernicus.eu) that funded these services.

No impact

-

Change in McClear and CAMS Radiation requests header

Added link to release notes information on  www.soda-pro.com in McClear and CAMS Radiation .csv output files

No impact

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2016-04-19 Release

ReferenceTitleDescriptionImpact for users

#319

Increased CAMS Radiation Service limit

Increased CAMS Radiation Service limit from 5 to 15 requests per day

No impact

#319

McClear and CAMS Radiation WPS are moved to www.soda-is.com

McClear and CAMS Radiation WPS are moved from test server http://toolbox.webservice-energy.org to production servers www.soda-is.com and http://pro.soda-is.com

McClear and CAMS Radiation WPS users should update their code.

#319

MACC-RAD service is renamed CAMS Radiation

The MACC-III project that funded MACC-RAD and McClear services is replaced by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (http://atmosphere.copernicus.eu). A consequence is that the MACC-RAD service is renamed CAMS Radiation.

The get_macc_rad WPS is renamed get_cams_radiation. Users should update their code.

#268

Fixed bug in McClear web form

Bug fix: sometimes, McClear web form http://www.soda-pro.com/web-services/radiation/cams-mcclear fails with a "Connection reset" error

No impact

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2015-12-15 Release

ReferenceTitleDescriptionImpact for users
#301Upgrade of the CAMS real-time data assimilation and forecasting system on 2015-11-27The CAMS numeric weather model that provides inputs to McClear, CAMS Radiation and Helioclim-3 version 5 irradiation models has been improved on 2015-11-27. The new model uses a 0.75 degree grid (about 75 km) and computes now hourly previsions.No impact of the model change
(see next line, though)
#301Download errors after CAMS system upgrade on 2015-11-27After CAMS system upgrade on 2015-11-27, we encountered download errors (due to a miscommunication with CAMS team).
We implemented a hack on 2015-12-09 to compute McClear, CAMS Radiation and Helioclim-3 version 5 using a persistence algorithm on McClear clear sky irradiation.
CAMS upgrade was properly implemented on 2015-12-15.
If possible, users should redo McClear, CAMS Radiation and Helioclim-3 version 5 requests computed from 2015-11-27 to 2015-12-15

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