The fifth version of the VISIR-2 ship weather routing model has been released today. This latest update, available on Zenodo, introduces new functionalities and bug fixes.

Notable improvements include clearer inline comments in the input namelists, which help configure numerical simulations, and an enhanced graphical user interface that simplifies port code searches. The user manual has also been updated.

Two bugs have been fixed: one related to input fields with overlapping timespans, another concerning marine field pre-processing in certain coastal regions. However, neither of these issues affected previously published results.

VISIR-2 users are encouraged to provide feedback at any time via the web form.