OpenNHM

Apart from plenty of com4FlowPy improvements, we also implemented detrainment in com1DFA resistance areas. This is highly experimental and not yet tested. These developments aim at improving the representation for forest interaction. They are triggered by a small side project (ForestFrame), which addresses the current status and potential improvements of forest representation in com1DFA. Another goal is to provide test cases with forest interaction in a separate repository (see github data repository ), which will hopefully grow bigger in time.

We took part in the Interpraevent 2024 conference in Vienna with a workshop about AvaFrame. The room was full, and it was cool to see so much interest in our project.

There was also a talk and a poster with AvaFrame references:

• Michael Mölk: Rock-avalanche Fluchthorn: Back-calculation of the event with the open source model AvaFrame
• Oesterle et.al: The AvaFrame digital toolbox for avalanches as a component of natural hazard risk assessment

You will find these topics in the proceedings too, which at the moment are only preliminary: Interpraevent Homepage

Some of this is packed into Version 1.8.2 , which adds python 3.12 to the releases, and Version 1.8.3 , fixing a release pipeline problem.

Today we released Version 1.8.3

QGis users please note: do not forget to run Admin -> Update AvaFrame from within the toolbox to receive the updated core as well.

This release fixes the CI build pipeline to include 3.12 on max os and windows.

What’s Changed

• Remove Python 3.7 from Windows and Mac os build by @fso42 in https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/pull/978
• Split release script in Macosx and windows matrix by @fso42 in https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/pull/979
• Adjust zenodo JSON, update release action by @fso42 in https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/pull/980

Full Changelog: https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/compare/1.8.2...1.8.3

Today we released Version 1.8.2

QGis users please note: do not forget to run Admin -> Update AvaFrame from within the toolbox to receive the updated core as well.

This version adds Python 3.12 to the release script.

If you used and changed resistance parameters (not the outlines/shapes in QGis), this version includes a breaking change! See #970 for more information.

What’s Changed

• add runscript by @awirb in https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/pull/968
• Reduce resistance parameters to one parameter [com1] by @PaulaSp3 in https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/pull/970
• adjust format of saving particle csv files by @awirb in https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/pull/971
• Modified documentation: resistance parameter [doc] by @PaulaSp3 in https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/pull/972
• add option to write parameter variation config files through ana4Prob… [ana4] by @awirb in https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/pull/973
• Include py 3.12; add psutil requirement by @fso42 in https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/pull/977

Full Changelog: https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/compare/1.8.1...1.8.2

This month the EGU 24 ISeeSnow presentation and meeting took place. Thanks to all participants, it was a very interesting and motivating meeting. We will now start with collecting and describing all results in a peer reviewed paper.

We also released Version 1.8.1 , which contains a bug fix in com2AB.

Felix

Today we released Version 1.8.1

QGis users please note: do not forget to run Admin -> Update AvaFrame from within the toolbox to receive the updated core as well.

This release fixes a bug/problem with com2AB in which the chosen interpolation method led to points being offset from the original profile. (Thanks @CT for reporting this)

What’s Changed

• add convert to th from depth [in2; out3] by @awirb in https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/pull/959
• add option to use discrete colorbar [out3] by @awirb in https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/pull/961
• fix bug in color aimec plot by @awirb in https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/pull/964
• Add +1SD point in com2AB plots; change prepareLine [com2AB; geoTrans] by @fso42 in https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/pull/966

Full Changelog: https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/compare/1.8...1.8.1

This was a quiet month coding-wise, but not so quiet in project planning terms. We are preparing for the EGU 24 ISeeSnow presentation and meeting . We are also planning how to proceed with the big topics of AvaFrame Phase2 (e.g. powder snow avalanches).

Felix

This month we held the 1st Austrian workshop (in German), see here for the recording .

We also released Version 1.8 with new computational modules for rock avalanches and FlowPy. Please head over to the link above to see all the details of this release.

The rock avalanche module is highly experimental but will be extended in future developments. Please check our documentation to see the requirements and other information.