CSET Documentation¶

CSET (Convective- and turbulence-scale Evaluation and verification Toolkit) is an open-source toolkit for evaluation, verification and investigation of convective- and turbulence-scale numerical models for weather and climate applications, cutting across time and space scales with a focus on regional domains.

CSET provides a centralised and peer-reviewed source of tools to aid process-oriented evaluation for UM and LFRic models, supporting both deterministic and ensemble configurations. It will support evaluation of machine learning models and utilise observations from a range of sources to aid in the evaluation process.

It will utilise the Model Evaluation Tools (MET) software to provide a range of verification metrics aligned with operational verification best practices.

For model and diagnostics developers CSET offers well documented and peer reviewed evaluation tools with a well defined release cycle and flexible evaluation code that can adapt to users needs. CSET is built with portability in mind and can be run on a range of platforms from local desktops to HPC systems and cloud servers. It ensures traceable and reproducible results during the model assessment cycle and offers a legacy for diagnostics and access to observations.

It aligns parametrisation development, diagnostic development and evaluation research, feeding back into Regional Atmosphere and Land (RAL) model development across the Met Office and Momentum® Partnership.

It is build on a modern software stack using python 3 and METplus. Clear documentation, working practices, automatic testing, and open access promote contributions.

For information on how to use CSET, see Getting Started.

For information on getting involved as a developer, see Developer’s Guide.

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Useful Links¶

Source Code | Issue Tracker | Releases | Discussion Forum

Code of Conduct¶

All contributors to CSET must follow the Met Office Simulation Systems Code of Conduct.

Licence¶

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.