Blog from September, 2016

OpenIFS presentations at EMS 2016 conference
Unknown User (nagc) posted on Sept 23, 2016

The European Meteorological Society's 2016 conference was held in Trieste, Italy, from 12-16 September 2016.

There were several presentations involving OpenIFS:

  • Factors affecting atmospheric vertical motions as analyzed with a generalized omega equation and OpenIFS model: a statistical study,
    Oleg Stepanyuk, Jouni Räisänen, Victoria Sinclair, and Heikki Järvinen,
  • Do tropical sea surface temperatures affect polewards moisture transport and precipitation in the extra-tropics?
    Victoria Sinclair and Jennifer Catto,
  • The ECMWF OpenIFS model and reduced numerical precision in weather forecasting
    Glenn Carver, Filip Váňa, Simon Lang, Martin Leutbecher, Deborah Salmond, Peter Dueben, and Tim Palmer
    Abstract (PDF)
Météo-France students use ECMWF model to study ensemble forecasts
Unknown User (nagc) posted on Sept 23, 2016

Twenty-two postgraduate students from France’s École Nationale de la Météorologie (ENM) used ECMWF’s OpenIFS model in a workshop on ensemble forecasts held in Toulouse from 7 to 9 June 2016.

See ECMWF News item for more information...

Single Column Model 40r1v1 released
Unknown User (nagc) posted on Sept 23, 2016

Licensed users can obtain the code from the ftp site.

Interested users without a licence should see the Request OpenIFS license for more information.

For more information, please see the OpenIFS Releases page.

Acknowledgements

The OpenIFS team would like to acknowledge the research and support of ECMWF scientists involved in this release.