Objective Seasonal Outlook Package (OSOP)

OSOP is a python library to support objective seasonal forecasting.

This software is supported by the Weather and Climate Information Services (WISER) Programme, which is funded with UK International Development from the UK government and led by the Met Office in the UK.

Project Manager: Dr. Stefan Lines

Lead Developers: Dr. Nick Savage & Eleanor Dean

🚀 Getting Started

To get started with OSOP, start by cloning this github repo:

Clone this repo

   git clone https://github.com/OSFTools/osop.git
   cd osop

Then, set-up a conda environment. The conda environment contains all the packages you will need to run this library.

Create conda environment

   conda env create --file environment.yml

You will need to activate your conda environment every time you want to use this library

   conda activate osop

Now dive into the User Guide to learn more about downloading data and creating forecast products.

🌱 Contributing

Tip

If you are new to using GitHub we recommend reading the GitHub getting started.

OSOP is an Open Source project hosted on Github. Anyone with a GitHub account may create an issue on our OSOP GitHub project page for raising:

• bug reports
• feature requests
• documentation improvements

Important

To contribute to this project as a developer, please read the Contributing guidelines.

This repository contains some code that was generated by GitHub Copilot.

OSOP is distributed under BSD 3-Clause License
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