[FEATURE REQUEST]: Buffet of forecast model options? #466
Description
Feature Request Type
- User Interface (UI)
- Application Programming Interface (API)
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The NOAA RFC gridded forecast products are mostly adequate but are sometimes skewed conservatively for my watershed. And sometimes the RFC grids are not available within Cumulus due to broken links, so this would be a back-up method for real-time forecasting.
Describe the solution you'd like
I would like different forecast model outputs to be available in Cumulus so I can download, for example, the ECMWF grids and compare their forecast rainfall amounts to the RFC forecast. For starters, I would like the ECMWF, ICON, and the NOAA NAM products with full spatial coverage (OCONUS as well as Lower 48.) The only alternative to RFC gridded products already in Cumulus are the HRRR and NBM products, both of which only have CONUS coverage. Additionally, the HRRR product is fairly short-term and the NBM product is not entirely clear as to how different models are weighted.
Describe alternatives you've considered
I could manually download and stitch together gridded products from at least the ECMWF and the NAM but that would be incredibly inefficient compared to a Cumulus download.
Thanks!