CSET (Convective and turbulence scale Evaluation and verification Toolkit)

CSET is a toolkit for evaluation, verification and investigation of convective- and turbulence-scale numerical models for weather and climate applications, cutting across time and space scales.

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

Apart from verification capabilities it provides a centralised source of tools to aid process-oriented evaluation for UM and LFRic models, supporting both deterministic and ensembles.

For model developers CSET offers well documented and peer reviewed evaluation tools and flexible evaluation code that can adapt to users needs.

For diagnostic developers it provides a legacy for diagnostics and observations. It is build on a modern software stack using python 3 and METplus. Clear documentation, working practices, automatic testing, and open access promote contributions.

Please read the documentation to learn more about CSET, and how to use it.

Contributing

Contributions are readily welcomed! To get started with developing CSET visit the Contributing section of the documentation.

In addition to reading the working practices, the key recommendation is early communication. Open an issue on Github with your proposed change or addition in the design phase, and then others can provide guidance early.

Licence

Copyright © 2022-2024 Met Office and contributors.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (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.