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+title: "This month in AvaFrame - November 2020 edition"
+date: 2020-11-29T20:19:18+01:00
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+slug: "monthlynov2020" 
+---
+
+Welcome to our next monthly update. 
+
+ This month started with the exciting (at least for us :-) ) release of
+  version 0.1. Head over to our [github repository](https://github.com/avaframe/avaframe) 
+  and our [documentation](https://docs.avaframe.org/en/v0.1) to learn more about
+  it (or read our last [post](https://avaframe.org/posts/version0_1/)).
+
+ With this release (and the rest of the month as well) we improved our
+  documentation quite a lot. New *getting started* and *installation* pages
+  should make it possible for you to get started (*ha, who would have
+  guessed*..) with AvaFrame. To make it more readable we reordered the modules
+  documentation. Just recently we started adding the API documentation with all
+  our functions as well (for those interested: this is achieved with sphinx
+  autodoc/autosummary and docstrings). To acknowledge the (very important) data
+  providers, a data sources page was added, with sources and references to data
+  we use in our framework.
+
+ Our existing test cases received more features, now we include multiple
+  release areas and multiple scenarios per avalanche. Also included are scenarios
+  with resistance areas for our main dense flow avalanche kernel.
+
+ The first data for real avalanche test cases has made it to the
+  repository. So far we concentrated on idealised cases, but we now include 6
+  real world avalanches. For now release areas and DEMs are available. Soon these
+  cases will also end up in our test scripts.
+
+ New functions for probability / parameter range simulations are available for
+  the dense flow kernel com1DFA. Testing this with an applied example is underway at
+  the moment. 
+
+ We started working on the implementation of our dense flow kernel com1DFA in
+  python. This means digging deep into the programming and theory of our C++ reference
+  code. The base structure is already there, current developments concentrate on the
+  implementation of 2D SPH for depth integrated equations on a surface living in
+  3D and time discretizations, among others. Head over to our 
+  [github issues](https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/issues/) to get an idea about
+  the issues (..ha..) at hand.
+
+ And finally: the second steering committee meeting took place. Which reminds
+  me, I need to add a page about AvaFrame's organisational structure... So watch
+  this space...
+
+On to the next month!
+ 
+Felix