The ECMWF autumn 2016 Newsletter has an article describing the 2016 OpenIFS workshop held at Météo-France’s École Nationale de la Météorologie (ENM) in Toulouse in June 2016.
The article describes how the workshop made use of ensemble forecasts to study the interaction between Hurricane Nadine and an Atlantic cut-off low. The students on the workshop were able to explore ECMWF forecasts and analyses to understand the impact of this interaction on the forecast during the HyMeX campaign. The workshop was very successful. For more details please see the newsletter article.
A workshop on numerical and computational methods for simulation of all-scale geophysical flows was held at ECMWF, 3-6 October 2016.
The workshop brought together scientists working on the various aspects of model development on a variety of topics.
Eoghan Harney from University College Dublin gave a presentation on the novel approach of using Laplacian transforms for timestepping. This work uses the OpenIFS model in a shallow-water configuration.
The presentation (PDF) is available from the workshop webpage.
A Polar Prediction School for early career scientists from around the world was held in April 2016 at the Abisko Scientific Research Station in northern Sweden.
The school brought together PhD students and early career researchers from different countries for theoretical lectures and practical exercises. The exercises made use of the OpenIFS Single Column Model (SCM) running in a Linux Virtual Machine on participants laptops. The SCM virtual machine was provided by the OpenIFS team at ECMWF and adapted for the school by the University of Stockholm.