pysteps – The nowcasting initiative¶

Pysteps is a community-driven initiative for developing and maintaining an easy to use, modular, free and open source Python framework for short-term ensemble prediction systems.

The focus is on probabilistic nowcasting of radar precipitation fields, but pysteps is designed to allow a wider range of uses.

Pysteps is actively developed on GitHub, while a more thorough description of pysteps is available in the pysteps reference publication:

Note

Pulkkinen, S., D. Nerini, A. Perez Hortal, C. Velasco-Forero, U. Germann, A. Seed, and L. Foresti, 2019: Pysteps: an open-source Python library for probabilistic precipitation nowcasting (v1.0). Geosci. Model Dev., 12 (10), 4185–4219, doi:10.5194/gmd-12-4185-2019.