v2.0.0

• New layers:
  • "Geophysics/World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map" available in QGreenland Custom (QGIS plugin)
  • "Geophysics/Albedo":
  • July 2018 albedo (1km)
  • July 2019 albedo (1km)
  • "Geophysics/Heat flux/Flow from multiple observations (55km)"
  • "Geophysics/Heat flux/Flow measurement locations"
  • "Oceanography/Bathymetry/Depth contours"
  • "Geology/Geological map/Ice thickness contours"
  • "Sea ice/Monthly mean concentration (25 km)/September (min monthly extent)/September 2021"
  • "Sea ice/Monthly mean concentration (25 km)/Feb or March (max monthly extent)/March 2021"
• Updated layers:
  • "Earthquakes" updated to include 2021 data
  • "Sea ice / Monthly Mean Concentration (25km) / Feb or March (max monthly extent)" updated to include 2021 data
  • "Reference/Borders/Global coastlines" updated to use GSHHG dataset instead of Natural Earth.
  • "Reference/Latitude lines": Resolve issue with clipping of latitude reference layers
  • "Basemaps/Background (500m)": Use JPEG compression to significantly reduce file size
  • Remove "Monthly sea ice extent (1978 - present)" (time-series, online-only).
  • Convert RACMO promice mask layers to Byte data type.
  • Update Bedmachine dataset metadata to reflect new v4 data.
  • Convert "Likely basal thermal state June 23 1993 - April 26 2013 (5km)" layer to Int16 data type.
  • "Regional climate models/RACMO model output/Runoff 1958-2019 (1km)": change colormap, make 0 values transarent.
  • "Reference/Timezones": add labels.
  • "Reference/Borders/Greenland coastlines": update style to remove green tint.
  • "Geology/Earthquakes M above 2.5 1900-2020": show all earthquakes in background boundary instead of subsetting to region around Greenland.
  • "Reference/Longitude lines": display positive degrees West instead of negative.
  • "Hydrology/Inventory of marginal lakes"
  • "Monthly sea ice extent (1978 - present)" (time-series, online-only)
  • "Glaciology/Glacier terminus positions 2000-2021" layers to use NSIDC-0642 V2 (released Oct. 2021). Add layers for 2017-2021 winter seasons.
• Moved layers:
  • "Geophysics/Geothermal heat flux (5km)" layer to "Geophysics/Heat flux/Flux from ice cores (Greve, R.) (5km)".
  • "Oceanography/Bathymetric chart of the Arctic Ocean (400m)" layer to "Oceanography/Bathymetry/Depth (400m)"
  • "Human activity/Research stations" group to "Human activity/Research sites"
  • REMOVED from QGreenland zip package; available via QGreenland plugin:
  • "Glaciology/Ice sheet velocity/ITS_LIVE"
  • "Terrain models/Arctic DEM"
• Remove online layers from the QGreenland Custom QGIS plugin manifest. Once support for online layers is added to the plugin, online layers will be re-added to the manifest file.
• Add metadata.txt with layer information to layer data directory. This allows users who are not using the QGreenland project to access e.g., the layer's abstract and citation information.
• Upgrade GDAL version used for running layer pipelines to v3.4.0
• Update .txt documentation in the package (e.g. README.txt) to rich HTML documentation.
• Remove most WMM layers from core package. Retain dip poles, main field declination, and blackout zones layers.
• Improve raster compression.
• Add scalebar to map viewport in lower-right corner.
• BREAKING: minimum supported version of QGIS is now v3.16.
• New Time Controller allows visualization of time-series layers.
• Overhaul YAML configuration to Python configuration.
• All processing steps are now expressed in configuration.
• Add provenance information to QGIS Layer Properties "History" tab.
• Update and improve documentation for v2.0.0
• Remove UserGuide.pdf and MakingDataQGRCompatible.pdf in core zip package, information in these documents is now represented in UserGuide.pdf
• Switch back to .qgs project file from .qgz; There is qgis/QGIS#42033 conveniently opening .qgz project files in OSX for some versions of QGIS 3.16.x.