MLGEFS: Machine Learning-based Global Ensemble Forecast System

This package contains scripts to run and an ensemble-based cascaded version of the GraphCast weather model for the Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS). It also provides the pre-trained model (weights) to run MLGEFS:

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Prerequisites and Installation
• Usage
• Output
• Contact

Overview

The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) provides GEFS data that can be used for ensemble weather prediction and analysis.

Prerequisites and Installation

To install the package, run the following commands:

conda create --name mlgefs python=3.10

conda activate mlgefs

pip install dm-tree boto3 xarray netcdf4

conda install --channel conda-forge cartopy

pip install --upgrade https://github.com/deepmind/graphcast/archive/master.zip

pip install ecmwflibs

pip install iris

pip install iris-grib

This will install the packages and most of their dependencies.

Usage

Output

Contact

For questions or issues, please contact Sadegh.Tabas@noaa.gov.