Publication with The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)

This release features a version of the MSWH software and documentation created through a peer-review process facilitated by The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). We introduce the following new features in this release:

• The JOSS paper
• Simplified installation instructions on the README
• Detailed installation instructions to the API documentation
• Future Applications - Statement of Need and Approach to Component and System Modeling and Simulation sections of the documentation
• Contributing guidelines
• An example notebook featuring an additional climate zone
• Fixes to various typos and improvements to markdown text and titles in the notebook examples

First release

This is an initial release of the MSWH software. The intended usages are through:

• Django framework
• Jupyter notebook
• Reuse individual component models/assemble new system models
• Embed in larger scale analysis