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KnouandClaude Opus 5 867a07cecb Refine project documentation and track metric files
Close gaps found in a review of the documentation:
- Track data/metrics/ and data/metric_sources.json in git so the data
  checker passes on a fresh clone (finding 23; decision logged)
- State the Alaska and Hawaii coverage gap in the README limitations and
  extend finding 12
- File findings 24-26: the data-sources doc lacks gridMET and several
  pipeline commands; wettest/driest month are computed twice; solar GHI
  is written by the extreme-temperature apply step
- Add the stale "fallback values" note to filter 2's tasks

Tidy the document system:
- Add docs/reviews/README.md with the numbering rules and a finding index
- Rename koppen-mixed-display-plan.md to koppen-mixed-display.md and fix
  its stale Puerto Rico and "stage 5" text
- Add the precipitation-month step to the README enrichment list
- Describe the Current method / Previous method pattern in plan section 5
- Add CLAUDE.md with the project guardrails and doc layout

Format filter-calculations.md so it renders on GitHub and in VS Code:
inline math uses $...$, ranges use en dashes, and implementation
references name functions instead of line numbers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 17:31:26 -04:00

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Filter 1: Köppen-Geiger class

Status: Done (2026-09-14): rule applied, Mixed display built, documentation updated.

Data keys: koppenZone, koppenPrimaryClass, koppenSecondaryClass. Calculation: filter-calculations.md §1. Display design and history: koppen-mixed-display.md.

Findings

4. The Köppen fallback can create false data. A county with no valid raster cells is labeled Cfa instead of missing. A null value plus an audit flag would distinguish missing coverage from a genuine humid-subtropical class. Resolved on 2026-09-13: the Köppen builder leaves such counties blank. The fallback remains only in build_county_climate_data.py, whose Köppen value is replaced by the apply step.

21. The documented Köppen labels differ from the app. filter-calculations.md lists the group as "Climate Classification" and the filter as "Köppen-Geiger Climate Class"; app.js shows "Koppen-Geiger Classification" and "Koppen-Geiger Climate Class". The app spells Koppen without the umlaut throughout, while the docs use Köppen. Resolved on 2026-09-15: every prose and display use of the name now reads "Köppen", in app.js, README.md, scripts/county_data_sources.md, script docstrings, help text, and checker messages (with the matching test expectations), and filter-calculations.md quotes the app's group label, "Köppen-Geiger Classification". Code identifiers, file names, and data paths such as koppenZone, normalizeKoppenCode, and koppen_geiger_tif/ keep the ASCII spelling.

22. The base build's docstring calls its Köppen value a majority class. build_county_climate_data.py lists koppenZone as the "majority Koppen-Geiger class", but it assigns the most common class among touched cells, which need not be a majority. That value is replaced by the Köppen apply step, and the script is retired in Phase 3. Resolved on 2026-09-15: the docstring now reads "largest-share Köppen-Geiger class among touched cells (replaced by the Köppen apply step)".

Cross-filter finding 2 (touched-cell aggregation) was resolved for Köppen on 2026-09-13; see 00-cross-filter.md.

Decisions

In decisions.md: Köppen audit columns, Köppen no-data fallback, and Applying Köppen to the app CSV (2026-09-12); Metric files and Mixed climate display (2026-09-13).

Tasks

Adopted rule: a county is predominantly its top class if and only if that class covers at least 50% of the county's land and leads the runner-up by at least 5 percentage points; otherwise it is Mixed climate. Expected result for the 50 states and DC: 3,010 predominant, 133 Mixed.

  • Investigate low-majority counties and adopt the rule.
  • Windowed raster reads and 180th-meridian split.
  • Area-weighted class shares (16 × 16 sub-cells per raster cell, scaled by cos(latitude)) in scripts/common/county_zonal_stats.py.
  • Apply the 50% / 5-point rule (scripts/build_county_koppen_metric.py; counties with no valid cells are left blank).
  • Run the builder to write data/metrics/koppen.csv and confirm the expected 3,010 predominant / 133 Mixed (2026-09-13).
  • koppenZone-only apply step (scripts/apply_koppen_metric_to_climate_data.py, with --dry-run).
  • Apply to data/climate-data.csv (2026-09-13; 142 counties changed to Mixed, with koppenPrimaryClass and koppenSecondaryClass added).
  • Allow Mixed in check_climate_data.py.
  • Add a Mixed climate category to app.js, drawn as stripes of the county's top two classes; see koppen-mixed-display.md.
  • Replace the plurality description in filter-calculations.md §1 and mark review findings 2 and 4 resolved for Köppen (2026-09-14).
  • Update the Köppen descriptions and script lists in README.md and scripts/county_data_sources.md (2026-09-14).
  • Tests for shares, the rule, boundary cases, and the apply step (tests/test_koppen_metric.py).