'changelog'

Author: emanuel-schmid

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ CLIMADA tutorials. [#872](https://github.com/CLIMADA-project/climada_python/pull
 - `Impact.write_hdf5` now throws an error if `event_name` is does not contain strings exclusively [#894](https://github.com/CLIMADA-project/climada_python/pull/894)
 - Split `climada.hazard.trop_cyclone` module into smaller submodules without affecting module usage [#911](https://github.com/CLIMADA-project/climada_python/pull/911)
 - `yearly_steps` parameter of `TropCyclone.apply_climate_scenario_knu` has been made explicit [#991](https://github.com/CLIMADA-project/climada_python/pull/991)
+- `Hazard.write_hdf5` writes centroids as x,y columns (or as wkb in case of polygons) at a compression level of 9, not as pickled `Shapely` objects anymore, which reduces the size of the files significantly.
 
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