Installing

The following code must already be installed on the host that the tracking will be run on:

• afterburner (https://code.metoffice.gov.uk/trac/afterburner/)

• tempest_helper (https://github.com/MetOffice/tempest_helper/)

• inline_model_metrics (this software) (https://github.com/MetOffice/inline_model_metrics)

• TempestExtremes

Then perform the following steps:

1. If you want to plot the tracks, ensure that the Cartopy Natural Earth files are installed into ~/.local/share/cartopy/shapefiles/natural_earth/physical/ in your home directory on the host that the tracking will be run on, if that host doesn’t have access to the Internet to download these files itself.

2. Checkout the code.

3. Copy the Rose app directory into your Rose suite:

   cp -r rose-suite/app/tempest_tracker ~/roses/<suite-id>/app/
   

4. Ensure that the AFTERBURNER_HOME_DIR setting in the app/tempest_tracker/rose-app.conf file in your suite points to your Afterburner installation on the host that the tracking will be run on.

5. Ensure that the PYTHONPATH setting in the app/tempest_tracker/rose-app.conf file in your suite points to your tempest_helper and inline_model_metrics installations on the host that the tracking will be run on.

6. Ensure that the tc_detect_script, tc_stitch_script and tc_editor_script settings in the app/tempest_tracker/rose-app.conf file in your suite points to your TempestExtremes installation on the host that the tracking will be run on.

7. Update the orography_file setting in the app/tempest_tracker/rose-app.conf file to refer to a suitable orography file for this simulation. TempestExtremes installation on the host that the tracking will be run on.

8. Modify suite.rc in your suite to add the changes shown in rose-suite/suite_rc.diff.