Organization: PEcAn Project
Student: Swarnalee Mazumder
Mentors: Istem Fer
PEcAn is an open-source ecoinformatics toolbox. It has a set of workflows that wrap around an ecosystem model and manage the flow of information in and out of process-based ecosystem models. PEcAn currently has 17 meteorological drivers available, some of which are Ameriflux, ERA5, CMIP5 which are used as input data to various models. ECMWF Open Data provides globally available ensemble forecasts which can be used to drive various models (available in PEcAn) with. The aim of this project was to extend PEcAn by building an ECMWF weather forecast data ingestion pipeline that will improve the modelling capabilities of PEcAn. An ECMWF Open Data pipeline in PEcAn would help in adding various meteorological forecast data (weather data) as input variables to the ecosystem models which would help in running them in the futu