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Challenge

Build an ERA5 Coastal Storm Surge Wind Reconciler

Extract marine 10-metre wind speeds from ERA5 reanalysis grids to reconstruct coastal storm exposure events. Correlate peak gust footprints against port asset schedules to resolve basis risk disputes.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Extract marine 10-metre wind speeds from ERA5 reanalysis grids to reconstruct coastal storm exposure events. Correlate peak gust footprints against port asset schedules to resolve basis risk disputes.

Marine Terminal Risk Assessor

Retrieve ERA5 10m u/v wind vector grids across coastal target coordinates.

Calculate sustained wind speeds and peak gust velocities during storm events.

Intersect wind vector contours with port infrastructure and crane asset locations.

Generate a structured windstorm reconciliation dossier quantifying anemometer basis discrepancies.

Interactive wind vector timeline viewer, historical storm track overlays, and basis uncertainty discrepancy tables.

Use cdsapi to fetch ERA5 single levels surface wind variables over coastal bounding boxes or read sample NetCDF files. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

Copernicus Climate Data Store client Interacts with cdsapi Client retrieve method querying reanalysis-era5-single-levels with 10m_u_component_of_wind and 10m_v_component_of_wind.

ray-serve, cdsapi, netCDF4, uvicorn. Distributes high-volume spatio-temporal NetCDF grid slicing across concurrent worker replicas for fast API responses. Fast inference API endpoint paired with Ray distributed compute cluster or local multicore runtime.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Reanalysis wind speeds correctly computed from vector components (u, v).

Ray Serve endpoint responds to concurrent port coordinate reconciliation requests.

Calculates delta between on-site anemometer readings and ERA5 grid cells.

```json [ { "input": { "terminal_id": "PORT-CRANE-EAST", "era5_u10": 24.5, "era5_v10": 18.2, "onsite_anemometer_ms": 32, "contract_trigger_ms": 28 }, "expected_output": { "terminal_id": "PORT-CRANE-EAST", "reanalysis_wind_speed_ms": 30.52, "trigger_exceeded": true, "basis_discrepancy_ms": 1.48, "settlement_confidence": "HIGH" } }, { "input": { "terminal_id": "PORT-CRANE-WEST", "era5_u10": 14.1, "era5_v10": 9.5, "onsite_anemometer_ms": 18, "contract_trigger_ms": 28 }, "expected_output": { "terminal_id": "PORT-CRANE-WEST", "reanalysis_wind_speed_ms": 17, "trigger_exceeded": false, "basis_discrepancy_ms": 1, "settlement_confidence": "HIGH" } } ] ```

Produces simulated wind reconciliation evidence; does not certify crane structural integrity or authorize insurance payouts. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Produces simulated wind reconciliation evidence; does not certify crane structural integrity or authorize insurance payouts. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Reanalysis wind speeds correctly computed from vector components (u, v). Ray Serve endpoint responds to concurrent port coordinate reconciliation requests. Calculates delta between on-site anemometer readings and ERA5 grid cells.

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Retrieve ERA5 10m u/v wind vector grids across coastal target coordinates. Calculate sustained wind speeds and peak gust velocities during storm events. Intersect wind vector contours with port infrastructure and crane asset locations. Generate a structured windstorm reconciliation dossier quantifying anemometer basis discrepancies.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Reanalysis wind speeds correctly computed from vector components (u, v). Ray Serve endpoint responds to concurrent port coordinate reconciliation requests. Calculates delta between on-site anemometer readings and ERA5 grid cells.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

Interactive wind vector timeline viewer, historical storm track overlays, and basis uncertainty discrepancy tables.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

Produces simulated wind reconciliation evidence; does not certify crane structural integrity or authorize insurance payouts.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Retrieve ERA5 10m u/v wind vector grids across coastal target coordinates.

  • Calculate sustained wind speeds and peak gust velocities during storm events.

  • Intersect wind vector contours with port infrastructure and crane asset locations.

  • Generate a structured windstorm reconciliation dossier quantifying anemometer basis discrepancies.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Use cdsapi to fetch ERA5 single levels surface wind variables over coastal bounding boxes or read sample NetCDF files. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

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Ray Serve

Action Space in the agent workflow.

Evaluated output

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Evaluation checks
  • Retrieve ERA5 10m u/v wind vector grids across coastal target coordinates. Calculate sustained wind speeds...
  • Reanalysis wind speeds correctly computed from vector components (u, v). Ray Serve endpoint responds to con...
  • Interactive wind vector timeline viewer, historical storm track overlays, and basis uncertainty discrepancy...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 1 configured tool

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Ray Serve · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

Workflow tasks

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