Climate and Weather Research and Evaluation Testbed (CAWRET)

About CAWRET

Hosted by A*STAR in partnership with the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore and Centre for Climate Research Singapore (CCRS), the Climate and Weather Research and Evaluation Testbed (CAWRET) under the Climate and Weather Research Alliance Singapore (CAWRAS), provides researchers with access to comprehensive observation datasets, advanced modelling capabilities, and supercomputing resources essential for compute-intensive weather and climate research.

 

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Photo Credit: NSCC Singapore

CAWRET will help facilitate cross-institute collaborative research through common configurations (domain of interest, resolution, time periods , etc.), enabling robust evaluation of new weather prediction capabilities against standard benchmarks (e.g. impact on forecast skill of research advances measured against the Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) standard scorecard of key weather parameters and forecast ranges), helping to enhance Singapore’s weather resilience.

Data Availability

Observation

Dataset Name Time Period Domain License Owner ASPIRE2A Path Remarks
NCEP GDAS Satellite Data (d735000) 2025-12 Global1 Creative Commons License NCEP /home/project/13004327/data_service/obs_data/NCEP/GDAS_satellite  
NCEP ADP Global Upper Air and Surface Weather Observations (d337000) 2025-12 Global1 Creative Commons License NCEP /home/project/13004327/data_service/obs_data/NCEP/ADP_obs  
Himawari 9 2025-12 Full Disk Observations2 Public Data License v1.0 JMA /home/project/13004327/data_service/obs_data/Himawari9  

 

Model Source

Dataset Name Time Period Domain License Owner ASPIRE 2A Path Remarks
SINGV Forecast 2025-05-01 to 2025-05-20 WMC3 Official Closed – Non-Sensitive MSS /home/project/13004327/data_service/SINGV/SINGV_Forecast/  
SINGV EPS 2025-01-01 to 2025-04-22 WMC3 Official Closed – Non-Sensitive MSS /home/project/13004327/data_service/SINGV/SINGV-EPS/  
V3_Historical (8km) 1980-01-01 to 2014-12-31 V3-SEA-84 Official Closed – Non-Sensitive MSS /home/project/13004327/data_service/model_data/V3_Historical/V3-SEA-8 If access to sub-hourly precipitation rate data is required, please write to NEA CWRPO for permission.
V3_Historical (2km) 1995-01-01 to 2014-12-31 V3-WMC-25 Official Closed – Non-Sensitive MSS /home/project/13004327/data_service/model_data/V3_Historical/V3-WMC-2 If access to sub-hourly precipitation rate data is required, please write to NEA CWRPO for permission.

 

1Global: Latitude [-90S, 90N] with Longitude [-180W, 180E]
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Full Disk Observations (FD): Latitude [-60S, 60N] with Longitude [70E, -150W]
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Western Maritime Continent (WMC): Latitude [-5.5S, 7.5N] with Longitude [94.8E, 108.5E]
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V3-South East Asia-8km mesh(V3-SEA-8): Latitude [-16.16S, 24.088N] with Longitude [79.68E, 160.248E]
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V3-Western Maritime Continent-2km mesh (V3-WMC-2): Latitude [-7.29S, 9.972N] with Longitude [93.16E, 110.422E]

 

Software Availability

Software Name Version License ASPIRE 2A Path Remarks
Spack_Stack 1.8 CC0-1.0 License /home/project/13004327/software_service/spack-stack/1.8-mos3r3n  
MPAS-JEDI (CCRS) 3.0.2 Apache-2.0 License /home/project/13004327/software_service/MPAS-JEDI/3.0.2-mos3r3n  

 

Technical Support Requests

Please select the appropriate form below to submit your enquiry:

 

HPC Resource

HPC Resource Utilisation (Dec 2025 - Mar 2026)

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Useful Links

Important Note

The CAWRET-ADMIN team does not have administrative access to NSCC Singapore systems. As such, enquiries related to NSCC Singapore systems for WSRP projects fall outside our support scope.

For assistance with NSCC Singapore-related matters, please refer to the useful links above. Should you require further technical support, kindly contact the helpdesk directly at help@nscc.sg.