369896 Evaluation, Verification and Deployment of Realtime Experimental Tropical Cyclone Applications

Tuesday, 14 January 2020
Hall B1 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Alan Brammer, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and K. D. Musgrave and M. DeMaria

During the hurricane season, many research institutes run realtime demonstrations of experimental products. Prior to transition to operations it's important to assess the verification and reliability of these products. To do this a backend framework of python has been developed to continuously archive various experimental products and run realtime verification statistics during the season.

In this presentation we'll discuss our methods for archiving realtime data feeds and triggering verification pipelines, including updating and developing a verification tool-suite in python from established fortran routines utilizing unit-tests and continuous integration. We'll also include discussion of various deployment techniques, and how lessons learned so far in deploying python-based applications from research machines to semi-operational machines at the National Hurricane Center.

Disclaimer: The views, opinions, and findings contained in this article are those of the authors and should not be construed as an official National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) or U.S. Government position, policy, or decision.

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