Changes to standard names from Landlab 0.x to 1.x

As part of our push to version 1 of Landlab, the standard names have been overhauled to enhance internal consistency. Most of this work happened before our beta launch at the CSDMS meeting, so should not cause too many problems. However, if in doubt interrogate the most current input and output names for the component you’re currently using with [component].input_var_names and [component].output_var_names.

However, a few standard names have had to change since the version 1 beta. To our best knowledge most of these were not widely used or public-facing. The list is as follows:

'water__discharge' is now 'surface_water__discharge'
'water__depth' is now 'surface_water__depth'
'unit_flux' is now 'hillslope_sediment__unit_volume_flux'
'lithosphere__vertical_displacement' is now 'lithosphere_surface__elevation_increment'
'rainfall__daily' is now 'rainfall__daily_depth'

Of these, ‘water__depth’ is most likely to impact people, as it formed an input to the StreamPowerEroder. However, for back compatibility, you should still find that that component is still able to handle both the old and new names.