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ALBATROSS AS A CLIMATE SERVICE
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## Albatross: A Climate Service for Seasonal Forecasting
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**Albatross: A Climate Service for Seasonal Forecasting**
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*Albatross is a bird designed for seasonal forecasting of hydroclimatic variables.*
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Albatross is deployed as a **Web Processing Service (WPS)**, providing a robust, accessible interface for climate analysis. It produces deterministic forecasts of seasonal hydroclimatic variables (e.g., precipitation, temperature, streamflows,...) for any given location by leveraging global teleconnections.
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It is built upon the Niño Index Phase Analysis (NIPA) framework by Zimmerman et al. (2016).
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### ⚡ WPS Interface Overview
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**⚡ WPS Interface Overview**
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The Albatross service exposes a single core process, typically named **Drought**, which requires minimal, intuitive inputs to perform complex seasonal forecasts.
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3. **Target Season:** Define the season of interest (e.g., JFM, DJF).
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4. **Phase mode:** Define the level of El Niño/La Niña phase analysis.
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### 🚀 Operational Forecasting Modes
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**🚀 Operational Forecasting Modes**
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Albatross supports two distinct operational modes, governed by the ``End year`` parameter, allowing for seamless transition from model verification to real-time prediction.
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#### 🗓 Hindcast (Model Calibration and Verification)
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**🗓 Hindcast (Model Calibration and Verification)**
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This mode is used for **training, calibrating, and verifying** the predictive skill of the NIPA model using historical data.
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* **Goal:** To assess how well the model *would have* performed historically.
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* **Availability:** Set the ``End year`` parameter to a year **prior to the current year** (e.g., 2016).
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* **Output:** A time series of historical hindcast predictions, suitable for calculating model skill scores (R-squared, correlation, RMSE, etc.).
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#### 🔮 Operational Forecast (New Feature!)
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**🔮 Operational Forecast (New Feature!)**
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This new mode enables the generation of predictions for the current or upcoming season using the most recent available climate index data.
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* **Process:** The model is trained on historical data, and then uses the current month's teleconnection index value (e.g., the latest available ONI) to generate the forecast value.
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* **Output:** A single point prediction for the specified target season and year.
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### 🔧 Detailed Input Requirements
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**🔧 Detailed Input Requirements**
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To run the WPS, you must provide the following parameters:
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| Phase mode (int) | Whether to apply NIPA separately for El Niño and La Niña phases (1 or 2) |
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TECHNICAL & DEVELOPMENT DETAILS
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