---
title: pysteps
date: 2018-08-10
category: Projects
authors: PySteps developers
tags: project, devel, nowcasting, opticalflow
language: Python
---

# pysteps

## Quick description

[pysteps](https://pysteps.github.io/) is a community that develops and maintains an easy to use, modular and open source python framework for precipitation short-term ensemble prediction systems.

![pysteps sample image](../images/pysteps_sample.png)

## Homepage

<https://pysteps.github.io/>

## Code Repositories

### The pysteps package
<https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps>

### Sample data
<https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps-data>

## Software Documentation
<https://pysteps.readthedocs.io>

## License model
BSD-3

## Year of first release
2018

## Main programming laguage(s)
Python

## Supported platforms
Linux, Mac, Windows

## Type of software
API/Library

## Reference
Pulkkinen, S., D. Nerini, A. Perez Hortal, C. Velasco-Forero, U. Germann, A. Seed, and L. Foresti, 2019: Pysteps: an open-source Python library for probabilistic precipitation nowcasting (v1.0). Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., doi:10.5194/gmd-2019-94, **in review**.