Extreme Weather Typing (XWT) for Severe Convective Storms (SCS)

XWT program was developed and adapted to SCS by Andy Prein.

Dependencies

• Python 3
• HDBscan

Components

1. Search for optimum

• SCS_search_settings.py
• SearchOptimum_XWT-Combination.py

2. Apply settings

• SCS_XWT_apply_settings.py
• Centroids-and-Scatterplot.py

Running the Programs

Example for running on Casper using cloned NCAR Package Library.

1. Load python module and your NPL that has HDBscan installed.
Environment exmaple as located in environment_hdbscan

module load python/3.7.5

ncar_pylib python3_20200417

2. Run the Search Program

Edit the SCS_search_settings.py

sbatch runSearch_hdbscan.csh
This calls SearchOptimum_XWT-Combination.py
Output includes optimum settings.

3. Apply the settings to the clustering algorithms

Edit the SCS_XWT_apply_settings.py with settings from step 2 (or other desired settings)

./Centroids-and-Scatterplot.py
Output located in data/ and plot/ directories as set in SCS* settings files.