Virginia Ecoforecast Reservoir Analysis (VERA) Ecological Forecasting Challenge

The following elements of a forecasting challenge workflow are included in this repo. The GitHub Actions are the tool for automating the tasks.

1. Generation of targets
2. Processing of submissions
3. Download of weather drivers for forecasts
4. Generation of baseline forecasts
5. Evaluation (scoring) of submitted forecasts
6. Generation of dashboard
7. Generation of catalog
8. Creation of Docker containers with supporting software
9. Creation of archive/snapshots of challenge submissions and targets.

See https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2616 for more information on the structure of a forecasting challenge.

Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation Long Term Research in Environmental Biology program (DEB-2327030)