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Version history _Version 0.8.0, April 2019.

1. New functions 'downloadSMCstationlist', 'downloadSMCcurrentday', 'downloadSMChistorical' and 'downloadSMCvarmetadata'.
2. Update of vignette 'Meteorology'.

_Version 0.7.9, March 2019.

1. New function reshapeworldmet to reshape data downloaded using package 'worldmet'
2. New function reshapeweathercan to reshape data downloaded using package 'weathercan'
3. Transform point coordinate system in 'interpolationpoints', 'interpolationpixels' and 'interpolationgrid' if necessary
4. Check for infinite values in 'MeteorologyInterpolationData'
5. New function 'correctionpoint'.
6. Bug corrected in 'meteocomplete'.
7. Added conversion from specific humidity to relative humidity in meteocomplete.

_Version 0.7.8, November 2018.

1. Corrected bug MeteorologyInterpolationData with SpatialPointsTopography as input
2. Updated user guide documentation

_Version 0.7.7, October 2018.

1. Empirical quantile mapping according to original method (Déqué)
2. Dependency from package 'qmap' removed

_Version 0.7.6, September 2018.

1. Methods 'print/head/tail' updated for objects SpatialPointsTopography and SpatialPointsMeteorology
2. Subsetting for objects SpatialPointsMeteorology, SpatialGridMeteorology and SpatialPixelsMeteorology.
3. Coercing objects of Spatial...Topography
4. New vignette 'user guide' (old one renamed)
5. Adapt to Rcpp changes

_Version 0.7.5, August 2018.

1. AEMET download using packages httr and jsonlite (code adapted from https://github.com/SevillaR/aemet)
2. Methods 'print/show' added for objects of class SpatialPointsMeteorology, SpatialGridMeteorology and SpatialPixelsMeteorology.
3. Methods 'print/show' added for objects of class SpatialPointsTopography, SpatialGridTopography and SpatialPixelsTopography.
4. Methods 'head/tail' added for objects SpatialPointsTopography and SpatialPointsMeteorology
5. Bug correction: Historical download of AEMET data returns SunshineHours

_Version 0.7.4, August 2018.

1. Added reference to publication doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.08.003
2. Added citation reference.
3. Bug correction: Over-dimensioned vectors for temperature differences (same for precipitation).
4. Low-level interpolation routines made accessible to the user
5. Bug correction: builder for MeteorologyInterpolationData
6. Bug correction: Missing values in downloadAEMEThistorical

_Version 0.7.3, June 2018.

1. New function 'meteocomplete'.
2. Improvement of function 'meteoplot' to accept data frames with daily meteorological data as input

_Version 0.7.2, March 2018.

1. Update of functions to download data from AEMET to deal with encoding
2. Update of function 'SpatialPointsMeteorology' to build objects from sets of data frames, one per date
3. Update of function 'MeteorologyInterpolationData' to build objects from different data structures
4. New function 'summaryinterpolationdata' to summarize objects of class 'MeteorologyInterpolationData'

_Version 0.7.1, March 2018.

1. Bug correction in interpolationpixels (with export=TRUE)
2. Bug correction in correctionpoints.errors (with rds input)

_Version 0.7.0, February 2018.

1. New S4 structures: SpatialPixelsTopography and SpatialPixelsMeteorology
2. New function interpolationpixels
3. Update of functions to download data from the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia (AEMET)
4. New function writemeteorologypixels
5. Function correctiongrid removed (correction of weather series makes sense for point data)
6. New function summarypixels

_Version 0.6.9, December 2017.

1. Allow saturated (> 100% values) in relative humidity when extracting from NetCDF and when performing bias correction

_Version 0.6.8, November 2017.

1. Modification of the precipitation interpolation (kernels)
2. Modification of radiation calculation (diffuse light for slopes where direct light is too low)
3. Modification of partitioning between direct and diffuse radiation

_Version 0.6.7, November 2017.

1. Improvements in 'subsample' function
2. New function 'radiation_skyLongwaveRadiation'

_Version 0.6.6, October 2017.

1. Export format txt/rds
2. Changed description

_Version 0.6.5, October 2017.

1. Default correction method for wind switched to 'quantmap'.
2. Unbias method for Tmin and Tmax applies bias from Tmean (if also unbiasing).
3. Quantile mapping method for Tmin and Tmax is applied to (Tmin-Tmean) and (Tmax-Tmean).

_Version 0.6.4, September 2017.

1. Corrected a bug in the correction of relative humidity.
2. New function 'correctionpoints.errors' to evaluate correction errors for the reference period.

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