Point post-processing software

Pointpp is a command-line tool to post-process weather forecasts for point locations. It uses input files prepared for Verif (https://github.com/WFRT/verif).

For more information about how to use Pointpp, checkout the wiki page: https://github.com/tnipen/pointpp/wiki

Features

Pointpp supports several post-processing methods such as:

• Quantile-mapping
• Linear regression
• Conditional mean
• Climatology
• Persistence
• Score-optimizer (such as ETS-optimizer)

Installing on Ubuntu

Prerequisites

Pointpp requires Verif to be installed.

Installing from source

Download the source code of the latest version: https://github.com/tnipen/pointpp/releases/. Unzip the file and navigate into the extracted folder.

Then install Pointpp by executing the following inside the extracted folder:

sudo pip install -e .

This will create the executable /usr/local/bin/verif. Add /usr/local/bin to your PATH environment variable if necessary. If you do not have sudo privileges do:

pip install -e . --user

This will create the executable ~/.local/bin/verif. Add ~/.local/bin to your PATH environment variable.

Copyright and license

Copyright © 2017 Thomas Nipen. Pointpp is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license. See LICENSE file.