DC data sharing

Creating Sites, Observations, Forecasts

Create a Site (weather station)
- Boulder: 40 N, -105 E, 1650 m
Create a Site (power plant)
- Boulder Power Plant: 10 MW AC, 14 MW DC, tracking, .4 gcr
Create an Observation.
- AC power, hourly average, beginning
View sample data, upload boulder_cloudy_aug_sept.csv
- Note: procedure must be repeated for each variable. Tedious, but avoids need to agree upon and parse column names
Create a Forecast
- AC power, hourly average, beginning
upload boulder_fx_demo_aug_sept.csv

For this exercise you need two accounts. Here we use demo and holmgren. For now we must use uuids to share data, but email support will come soon.

demo: 4f738239-e632-11e9-ab45-52540015d5ce
holmgren: 26653f79-e62d-11e9-ab45-52540015d5ce
Goal: demo@solarforecastarbiter.org wants to share its AC power data with a forecast provider (holmgren@email.arizona.edu), receive a forecast from the forecast provider, and generate a report comparing to its own forecast (created previously).
Show roles page
In a second incognito window, log in as holmgren@email.arizona.edu, show available sites -- cannot see demo’s
From demo window, create role for sharing sites, obs metadata, values
Use “all *” permissions for simplicity, but note this can be made much more fine grained
Assign role to forecast provider account
From holmgren window, create forecast, upload forecast
- AC power, hourly average, beginning
- upload boulder_fx_holmgren_aug_sept.csv
Note that demo could have created a forecast metadata object
Share new holmgren forecast metadata and data with the demo account
From demo account, see that there is now a new forecast
From demo create report comparing demo forecast and holmgren forecast to demo obs

From holmgren window, create OASIS forecast, upload forecast
- issue time of day 7Z, run length 1 day, lead time 1 day
Premade uploaded forecast is a bias corrected version of GFS forecast
Note that demo could have created a forecast metadata object
If not already done, share new holmgren forecast metadata and data with the demo account
From demo account, see that there is now a new forecast
Create report comparing reference forecast and holmgren forecast to reference obs