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SUNSET: SUbseasoNal to decadal climate forecast post-processing and asSEmenT suite
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This is the Git project for the SUNSET, a collaborative in-house tool developed at BSC-ES for research projects and operational workflows involving subseasonal to seasonal to decadal forecast verification.
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This is the Git project for SUNSET, an collaborative R-based tool developed in-house at BSC-ES 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.

Victòria Agudetse (@vagudets) is the maintainer of the SUNSET repository.

Resources
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You can access the documentation through the wiki:
[SUNSET Wiki](https://earth.bsc.es/gitlab/es/sunset/-/wikis/home?target=_blank)

Use cases and hands-on tutorials are available in the repository for you to follow:

[SUNSET Use Cases](https://earth.bsc.es/gitlab/es/sunset/-/tree/master/use_cases/)
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You may also find useful information in the slides from past user meetings:
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[R-tools Climate Forecast Analysis Training session 2023](https://earth.bsc.es/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=tools:day2_04_handson_r_tools.pdf)

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[User meeting March 2023](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18VoqgJCzcZTmqNyXL3op_KecsPxsWRkf/edit#slide=id.p1?target=_blank)

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[User meeting September 2022](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14-qq__fblMt7xvJDaqS5UqfQMXWCf3Ju/edit#slide=id.p1?target=_blank)
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[User meeting June 2022](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1R8Gcz5R_NTgcBQvXBkCPG3jY31BVPDur/edit#slide=id.p1?target=_blank)

Branching strategy
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Branches containing developments that are to be merged into the tool must contain "dev-" at the beginning of the name, followed by a short, meaningful description of the development in question. E.g. "dev-loading-subseasonal" for the branch containing developments related to the loading of subseasonal datasets.

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Users that wish to incorporate their own developments into the core of the tool are encouraged to create a local copy repository to work on their projects and push their changes to a new branch. Please contact Victòria Agudetse (@vagudets) or Núria Pérez-Zanón (@nperez) to discuss the first steps.
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Mailing list
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User meetings, internal releases and news are announced through the mailing list. You can send an email to victoria.agudetse@bsc.es to request subscription.