[Nomad FR]: Deterministic Mode with multiple weather scenarios confusion

[Den-Boychuk]

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What is needed?

This may be an existing feature, a bug, or a potential feature. Let's clear up any potential confusion.

• I think Deterministic Mode would typically use one weather scenario and produce one deterministic result.
• But if a user intentionally or accidently inputs weather data that has 2 or more weather scenarios, then FireSTARR will process them all and produce a deterministic result for each weather scenario.
  • Do we know how Nomad would handle that?
  • Would it be clear in the UI?
  • Would it be clear to users?

Point of interest, which may make this a feature: when multiple weather scenarios from an ensemble weather forecast are used in deterministic mode, they can be overlaid to be a "Deterministic Ensemble" that is interpreted as a burn probability map. FireCast does that. This is outlined in issue #191.

How will this improve the project or tool?

This is to avoid possible confusion and perhaps recognize a bug and/or a feature.

[nealmcloughlin]

When there are multiple scenarios in the weather file, have the user interface display multiple deterministic outputs.