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Forthcoming meetings

OpenIFS user meeting, 4-6 June 2013, Helsinki

Second call

Please register by 19 May 2013 by e-mailing  victoria.sinclair@helsinki.fi

OpenIFS is an ECMWF led project to provide an easy-to-use and exportable version of the IFS forecast model. Use of the OpenIFS is gradually increasing in research and academic groups in Europe. This meeting will bring together OpenIFS users and developers to share experiences, discuss plans, and learn more of the OpenIFS in practical sessions.

This user meeting is organised by the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

Programme

The programme will include presentations about OpenIFS by ECMWF staff and users, practical tutorials, and discussion sessions. The meeting will start 4th June, 9 am, and end 6th June, 4 pm. The dinner will be on Tuesday evening. The detailed program will be announced early May (the 2nd call). User presentations are most welcome, please e-mail the presentation The draft programme is at the end of this message. User presentations  are most welcome, and can be included into the programme. Please send the title to victoria.sinclair@helsinki.fi by the end of April.
Confirmed participation (programme drafting committee):
- ECMWF: Erland Källen, Glenn Carver, Filip Vana
- Stockholm University: Abdel Hannachi
- Finnish Meteorological Institute: Pirkka Ollinaho
- University of Helsinki: Victoria Sinclair, Marja Bister, Jouni Räisänen, Heikki Järvinen 19 May 2013.

Venue

University of Helsinki, Department of Physics and Finnish Meteorological Institute (Kumpula Campus; www.helsinki.fi/kumpula).

Travel support

Support to cover local costs (accommodation, meals, local travel) is available on request.

Enquiries

Victoria Sinclair (victoria.sinclair@helsinki.fi)
Heikki Järvinen (heikki.j.jarvinen@helsinki.fi)

Programme

Tuesday, 4 June 2013
9:30 Erland Källen: ECMWF research activities and the academic perspective
10:30 Heikki Järvinen: User perspective to OpenIFS
Coffee/tea
11.15 Victoria Sinclair: Research perspective to OpenIFS
11.45 Abdel Hannachi : OpenIFS experiences at Stockholm University
12.15 Glenn Carver: Status of the OpenIFS project
Lunch
14.00 Erland Källen: First hand experiences in predicting hurricane Sandy
14.30 Glenn Carver: Sandy as a case study for practical sessions
Coffee/tea
15:30 Practical session 1(computer room): Simulating hurricane Sandy
Buffet dinner starting at 18:00

Wednesday, 5 June 2013
9:00 Sandor Kertesz: Introduction to Metview as a visualization tool
9:45 Filip Vana: OpenIFS single column model
Coffee/tea
10:30 Practical session 2 (computer room): Visualize the Sandy simulations
Lunch
14:00 Practical session 3 (computer room): Further inspection of the  
simulations
16:00 Discussion session of user perspectives on OpenIFS development
17:30 Informal trip to Suomenlinna castle island

Thursday, 6 June 2013
9:00 Group presentations
11:00 Formulation of the user view on further development of OpenIFS.
Lunch
14:00-17:00 Time reserved for informal discussion and questions, and  
planning of future events

This user meeting is organised by the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

Past meetings & events

EGU 2013

A paper on 'The ECMWF OpenIFS model' was presented at EGU 2013, Vienna. See EGU website for more details of session orals and abstracts. Other papers from ECMWF were presented at EGU.

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