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title: "This month in AvaFrame - September 2020 edition"
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date: 2020-09-30T12:28:05+02:00
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draft: false
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slug: "monthlysep2020"
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Winter is slowly creeping up on us, so here is the next AvaFrame update:
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+ We heavily worked on the dense flow avalanche module com1DFA, bringing
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functionality from its native code over to python functions. Now there is
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the option to do parameter variations on friction parameters and release thickness automatically.
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Besides this new option, more and more simulation parameters can now be set in python.
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+ Regarding the necessary executable for the com1DFA (dense flow) module: we
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discovered some discrepancy which we currently work on to resolve. The
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differences to our reference results are minuscule, but we would like to
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understand the source of it. Once this is resolved, we will release the
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executable as a first step to bringing it fully open source.
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+ We created a new results folder structure for com1DFA, now simulation files
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can be addressed according to their name and characteristics such as
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simulation type, name of release area and many more via a dictionary.
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+ The full documentation for com1DFA (dense flow) took a big step forward, you
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can see it here
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[docs.avaframe.org](https://docs.avaframe.org/en/latest/appendixCom1DFA.html).
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Please be aware, this is currently not reviewed yet and still heavily being
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worked on.
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+ The AlphaBeta and AIMEC modules also received improved documentation, but
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again, not completely done yet.
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+ The AIMEC computation and plotting routines are now a lot cleaner and easier
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to read.
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+ The plotting routines are developed/improved with styling of the plots and
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new colormaps. To use a modern visualisation, we are working in the HCL color
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space wherever possible. For more information about this see [hclwizard](http://hclwizard.org).
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**Quarterly Outlook**
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We are currently working towards version 0.1, a bare bones first version
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including the main modules com1DFA, com2AB (AlphaBeta) and the necessary support
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modules, like logging, input/output and report generation. With this experienced
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users will be able to run avalanche simulations. This will also include
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our dense flow executable mentioned above. Towards the end of the year
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we will concentrate on testing, improving our code-coverage and documentation.
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The development of the interface to QGis, i.e. triggering simulations right out
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of QGis, will also start around this time.
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Excited to see the first simulation results,
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Felix
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