Building Test Case Study

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The case study will be built on the basis of a 1-year period calibration for 24-hourly rainfall. The calibration will use the following five parameters as predictors:

• convective precipitation ratio
• total precipitation
• 700 mbar wind speed
• cape
• 24-hourly solar radiation

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To create the case study, I need first to prepare the input data which consists in:

• 1-year period of control forecasts
• 1-year period of observations
  Therefore, I need to:
• Get hold of a 1-year period of ECWMF control forecasts (for example, for 47r1)
• Get hold of a 1-year period of observations (for example, NOAA observations)
• Organize the forecast data as required by ecPoint-Calibrate
• Organize the observations data as required by ecPoint-Calibrate

We would like to upload this data to an open repository, like Zenodo, so users will be able to replicate autonomously the case study. To do so, I need to:

• Get permission from the management to upload the input forecasts in Zenodo
• Prepare the Zenodo repository and upload the forecasts and the observations in a directory called "Inputs"

Once the input data is ready, I need to run myself ecpoint-Calibrate to prepare the documentation for the case study and create the outputs to be uploaded in the Zenodo.

• Run the computations to create to point data table (PDT), saving screenshots of the steps that might be useful for the documentation
• Document the variables that are going to be used as predictors. Save screenshots of the computations executed in the GUI.
• Save the PDT in a "Outputs" directory.
• Run the software to create a decision tree (DT). Save screenshots of each step done in the GUI.
• Save the DT, the weather types (WTs) and the mapping functions (MFs) in the "Outputs" directory.
• Upload the "Outputs" directory to Zenodo and close the repository to obtain a DOI.

All the documentation will be written in a dedicate open Confluence page. This aspect is related to issue #108 .
The case study documentation will be also written on Confluence.

• Write the case study documentation on Confluence adding the screenshots for clarity, and the location of the Zenodo repository and the GitHub repository.

Complete the documentation by:

• Creating a Zenodo badge to add in the GitHub repository.
• Adding the link to the Confluence page in the GitHub repository.

[FatimaPillosu]

The GitHub repository for the case studies can be found here:
https://github.com/FatimaPillosu/ecPointCalibrate_CaseStudy

The material can be moved later to the ecPoint-Calibrate repository to keep everything in one place.