EFDC+ Explorer Release Notes

Enhancements:

• Adjust the background color of exported animations in 2DV and 3DV
• Add minimum depth parameter for biota vertical migration
• Improve resolution of MP4 files for 3D animations
• Update dynamic splash screen
• Update Mass Loading and concentration for all parameters data series

Bugs Fixed:

• Cannot change KC to 1
• inp was updated incorrectly
• Adjust font size for contour labels in 2DH
• Buttons not visible in Grid Generator form
• MP4 setting for animate blanking
• Repeated zonal parameters should be uneditable when zones are not used in the WQ module
• Boundary cells do not match the number of cell centroids in the boundary file
• Incorrectly plotting biota growth factor parameters
• Cannot load propwash_ships.jnp file when loading a propwash model
• Model crashes when selecting Horizontal Turbulence settings
• Withdrawal/Return boundaries automatically change when switching from IGRIDV2 to IGRIDV3
• Crash when animating rotation in 3DView to MP4/MPEG format
• Background image in 3DV did not display correctly
• Changing the light extinction coefficient in wq3dwc.inp file
• Background appears blank at the corners after rotating the model
• GUI issues on 4K screens
• Grid does not display after importing grid files (*.cvl; *.gpc) in 2DH
• Cannot save/load label settings for Calibration Layer in 2DH
• Incorrect thickness units for cell information in 2DV
• Issues with biota initial and minimum concentration
• Error statistics in Vertical Profile show incorrect results
• Spelling errors in text, controls, and reports
• Crash when loading a project layout file
• Sediment fluxes issue in time series plots
• Out of Memory Exception issues
• Habitat module plot issues
• Mass balance tool plots axis missing constituent names
• Update unit and class name in Mass balance plots
• Salinity in 2DV disappears after showing contour
• Crash when adding ship tracks into 2DH
• Light limitation for algae growth incorrectly calculated
• Issues when loading 2DV and time series layout
• USESHADE parameter not saved properly
• Display incorrect Kmin value for SGZ Layers

Grid+ 1.2 Release Notes

Enhancements:

• Update Orthogonal Deviation in Grid+ for consistency with EE
• Update the application title when Grid+ is launched from EE

Bugs Fixed:

• Crash when turning off the grid layer in layer control
• Loading blue circle keeps blinking
• Extracting a grid with a polygon does not work correctly
• Exporting shapefile does not work

EFDC+ 12.2 Release Notes

Enhancements:

• Add minimum depth for biota vertical migration

Description: A minimum water depth can be specified by users for biota vertical migration option Dynamic Velocity (Visser et al., 1997. As a result, the vertical migration of biota in one cell is only activated when the cell’s water depth is above that minimum depth. This addition prevents unrealistic results of biota concentration when the model uses the Dynamic Velocity option for biota vertical migration, especially in shallow water regions.

Bugs Fixed:

• Moving QSER inflow to adjacent cells

Description: With the moving QSER option, when the cell location of a flow boundary becomes dry, EFDC+ will look for a surrounding cell to determine if the flow can migrate. This process continues until the original cell location of the flow boundary is wet again, allowing water to flow in. The issue in EFDC+ 12.1 and previous versions is that the flow and the associated constituents at the new BC’s cells continue to migrate even when the BC’s location is reset to the original one. As a result, more sources of flow and, eventually, constituents will be added to the system than expected. In EFDC+ 12.2, the new BC’s cells are reset to zero whenever the original BC’s location allows the flow to migrate.

• Handling turbulence quantities at east open boundary cells

Description: The “L” index of east open boundary cells is incorrectly assigned, while EFDC+ handles the turbulence quantities for these cells. The issue causes incorrect values of turbulence quantities at east open boundary cells for models using GOTM for turbulence models. The “L” index of east open boundary cells was updated to the correct values in EFDC+ 12.2.