Background
- Accessible and user-friendly climate analysis tools are needed for many power system applications, including climate risk assessments, resource planning, outage modeling, and renewable studies
- Existing models and tools often rely on limited historical weather datasets that may not be representative of future conditions
Objective
- Conduct research to identify and develop innovative and user-friendly tools
- Create tutorials and guidance outlining how to retrieve, pre-process, analyze, model, and visualize weather and climate data
Outcome
- A technical update sharing tool development with tutorials and/or documentation Research Value
- This research builds the foundation for an open-source tool that will enable weather and climate research while lowering the barrier to entry