The SUNSET suite (SUbseasoNal to decadal climate forecast post-processing and asSEssmenT suite), developed by the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), was further enhanced within the CERISE project for the coherent and standardised verification of seasonal prediction demonstrators.
As reported in github by BSC (https://gitlab.earth.bsc.es/es/sunset):
“The SUNSET tool is a collaborative R-based tool developed in-house at BSC that aims to provide climate services for sub-seasonal, seasonal and decadal climate forecast time scales. The tool post-processes climate forecast outputs by applying state-of-the-art methodologies to tailor climate products for each application and sector (e.g.: agriculture, energy, water management, or health).
Its modular design allows flexibility in defining the required post-processing steps, as well as the products definition by deciding on the forecast system and reference datasets, variables, and forecast horizon among others. The tool also allows for the creation and visualization of climate forecast products, such as maps for the most likely terciles, and performs the verification of the products, which can be visualized on maps and scorecards. The inclusion of a launcher script provides a user-friendly way to parallelize the computation on HPC machines.”
Images from the SUNSET suite - The results presented here are obtained using the SUNSET community tool; Pérez-Zanón, 2022; 2024).
Building up on the SUNSET community tool (https://gitlab.earth.bsc.es/es/sunset)
References:
Pérez-Zanón, N., Caron, L.-P., Terzago, S., Van Schaeybroeck, B., Lledó, L., Manubens, N., Roulin, E., Alvarez-Castro, M. C., Batté, L., Bretonnière, P.-A., Corti, S., Delgado-Torres, C., Domínguez, M., Fabiano, F., Giuntoli, I., von Hardenberg, J., Sánchez-García, E., Torralba, V., and Verfaillie, D.: Climate Services Toolbox (CSTools) v4.0: from climate forecasts to climate forecast information, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 6115–6142, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-6115-2022, 2022.
Pérez-Zanón, N., Agudetse, V., Palma, L., Ho, A.-C., Delgado-Torres, C., Milders, N., Duzenli, E.,
Llabrés-Brustenga, A., de Paula Kinoshita, B., Bretonnière, P.-A., and G. Muñoz, Á.: SUNSET: SUbseasoNal to
decadal climate forecast post-processIng and asSEssmenT suite, EMS Annual Meeting 2024, Barcelona, Spain, 1–6 Sep 2024, EMS2024-361, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2024-361, 2024.
