# Weekly ECV Subseasonal Hindcast Verification
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This is a practical case to compute skill scores in subseasonal forecast.
- We will use ECMWF/S2S-ENSForhc and ERA5.
- The ECV is air temperature at surface level (tas).
Here, we aim to calculate the skill scores of the corresponding hindcast of 2016.
Note that to do this, we will detect the Mondays and Thursdays, which are the days of the week in which this model is initialized) during the year 2016. However, we will work with the previous year of initialization.
Follow the figure to see details on the subeasonal forecasts storage:
First, load startR package and define the paths to your forecast and reference including labels for $var$ and others:
```{r}
library(startR)
ecmwf_path <- paste0('/esarchive/exp/ecmwf/s2s-monthly_ensforhc/',
'weekly_mean/$var$_f24h/$sdate$/$var$_$syear$.nc')
obs_path <- paste0("/esarchive/recon/ecmwf/era5/weekly_mean/",
"$var$_f1h-240x121/$var$_$file_date$.nc")
```
Now, create the sequence of start dates in 2016 that is explaind in the figure too:
```{r}
forecast.year <- 2016
# Mondays
sdates.seq.mon <- format(seq(as.Date(paste(forecast.year, 01, 04, sep = '-')),
as.Date(paste(forecast.year, 12, 31, sep='-')),
by = 'weeks'), format = '%Y%m%d')
# Thursdays (Monday+3days)
sdates.seq.thu <- format(seq(as.Date(paste(forecast.year, 01, 04, sep = '-')) + 3,
as.Date(paste(forecast.year, 12, 31, sep = '-')),
by = 'weeks'), format = '%Y%m%d')
# Joint dates in order
sdates.seq <- c(sdates.seq.mon, sdates.seq.thu)
ind <- order(as.Date(sdates.seq, format = '%Y%m%d')) # dates in order
sdates.seq <- sdates.seq[ind]
# Leap years, remove 29th of February:
pos.bis <- which(sdates.seq == paste0(forecast.year,"0229"))
if(length(pos.bis) != 0) sdates.seq <- sdates.seq[-pos.bis]
exp <- Start(dat = ecmwf_path,
var = 'tas',
sdate = sdates.seq,
syear = 'all', # before hdate
time = 'all',
ensemble = "all",
latitude = indices(1:121),
longitude = indices(1:240),
syear_depends = 'sdate',
return_vars = list(latitude = NULL,
longitude = NULL,
time = c('sdate', 'syear')),
retrieve = FALSE)
# Corresponding ERA5
dates <- attr(exp, 'Variables')$common$time #20*4*103=8240 middle day of weekly averages
file_date <- sapply(dates, format, '%Y%m%d')
dim(file_date) <- c(length(sdates.seq), 20, 4)
names(dim(file_date)) <- c('sdate', 'syear', 'time')
obs <- Start(dat = obs_path,
var = 'tas',
file_date = file_date, # sdate syear time
# 103 20 4
latitude = indices(1:121),
longitude = indices(1:240),
split_multiselected_dims = TRUE,
retrieve = FALSE)
```
The next step is to define our function to calculate scores:
```{r}
score_calc <- function(forecast, reference, sdates.seq,
scores = 'all') {
library(easyVerification)
anomaly_crossval <- function(data) {
avg <- NA * dim(data)['syear'] # one avg per year
for (t in 1:dim(data)['syear']) {
avg[t]<- mean(data[,-t,])
}
data <- Apply(data, c('syear'), function(x) x - avg)[[1]]
return(data)
}
reference <- s2dv::InsertDim(reference, pos = 3, len = 1, name = 'ensemble')
forecast <- anomaly_crossval(forecast)
reference <- anomaly_crossval(reference)
# create objects to store the outputs
Scores <- NULL
Skill_Scores <- NULL
for(month in 1:12) {
# take only data of 1 month (indices of each month in start_dates)
startdates <- which(as.integer(substr(sdates.seq, 5,6)) == month)
forecast_month <- s2dverification::Subset(forecast, 'sdate', list(startdates))
reference_month <- s2dverification::Subset(reference, 'sdate', list(startdates))
forecast_month_reshaped <- array(forecast_month,
c(dim(forecast_month)['sdate'] * dim(forecast_month)['syear'],
dim(forecast_month)['ensemble']))
reference_month_reshaped <- array(reference_month,
c(dim(reference_month)['sdate'] * dim(reference_month)['syear'],
dim(reference_month)['ensemble']))
if (any(c('fairrpss', 'frpss', 'all') %in% tolower(scores))) {
Scores <- c(Scores, unlist(easyVerification::veriApply("FairRpss",
fcst = forecast_month_reshaped, obs = reference_month_reshaped,
prob = c(1/3, 2/3), tdim = 1, ensdim = 2)))
}
if (any(c('faircrpss', 'fcrpss', 'all') %in% tolower(scores))) {
Scores <- c(Scores, unlist(easyVerification::veriApply("FairCrpss",
fcst = forecast_month_reshaped, obs = reference_month_reshaped,
tdim = 1, ensdim = 2)))
}
if (any(c('enscorr', 'corr', 'all') %in% tolower(scores))) {
fcst_mean <- Apply(forecast_month_reshaped, 'ensemble', mean)[[1]]
Scores <- c(Scores,
cor = cor(fcst_mean, reference_month_reshaped,
use = "complete.obs"),
cor.pv = cor.test(fcst_mean, reference_month_reshaped,
use = "complete.obs")$p.value)
}
if (any(c('bss10', 'fbss10', 'all') %in% scores)) {
Scores <- c(Scores, unlist(easyVerification::veriApply("FairRpss",
fcst = forecast_month_reshaped, obs = reference_month_reshaped,
prob = (1/10), tdim = 1, ensdim = 2)))
}
if (any(c('bss90', 'fbss90', 'all') %in% scores)) {
Scores <- c(Scores, unlist(easyVerification::veriApply("FairRpss",
fcst = forecast_month_reshaped, obs = reference_month_reshaped,
prob = (9/10), tdim = 1, ensdim = 2)))
}
Skill_Scores <- cbind(Skill_Scores, Scores)
}
return(Skill_Scores)
}
```
The workflow is created with Step() and AddStep()
```{r}
step <- Step(fun = score_calc,
target_dims = list(forecast = c('sdate','syear','ensemble'),
reference = c('sdate', 'syear')),
output_dims = list(c('scores', 'month')),
use_libraries = c('easyVerification',
'SpecsVerification',
's2dverification'))
# Workflow:
wf <- AddStep(list(exp,obs), step, sdates.seq = sdates.seq, scores = 'all')
```
Finally, execute the analysis, for instance, in Nord3:
```{r}
#-----------modify according to your personal info---------
queue_host = 'nord3' #your own host name for power9
temp_dir = '/gpfs/scratch/bsc32/bsc32339/startR_hpc/'
ecflow_suite_dir = '/home/Earth/nperez/startR_local/' #your own local directory
#------------------------------------------------------------
res <- Compute(wf,
chunks = list(time = 4, longitude = 2, latitude = 2),
threads_load = 1,
threads_compute = 12,
cluster = list(queue_host = queue_host,
queue_type = 'lsf',
extra_queue_params = list('#BSUB -q bsc_es'),
cores_per_job = 12,
temp_dir = temp_dir,
polling_period = 10,
job_wallclock = '03:00',
max_jobs = 16,
bidirectional = FALSE),
ecflow_suite_dir = ecflow_suite_dir,
wait = TRUE)
```
If 'all' scores are requested the order in the 'scores' dimension of the output will be:
- FairRpss_skillscore, FairRpss_sd,
- FairCrpss_skillscore, FairCrpss_sd,
- EnsCorr, EnsCorr_pv
- FairBSS10, FairBSS10_pv
- FairBSS90, FairBSS90_pv
If you choose a subset of 'scores', it will follow the same order omitting the non-declared scores.
```
library(s2dv)
PlotEquiMap(res$output1[1,1,1,1,1,,],
lon = attributes(exp)$Variables$common$longitude,
lat = attributes(exp)$Variables$common$latitude,
filled.con = FALSE,
toptitle = "FairRPSS January 2016 Hindcast leadtime 1")
```
Credits to
Original code: Andrea Manrique
Adaptation: Núria Pérez-Zanón