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Scientific and technical documentation for IFS - Cycle 38r1

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OpenIFS is based on IFS Cycle 38r1 (operational model introduced December 2012).

• Manuals (PDF)
  • Dynamics & Numerical Procedures
  • Physical Processes
  • Technical & Computational Procedures

The PDF manuals are also available for download (together with a web based
source code browser)

from the OpenIFS ftp site.

The full list of IFS 38R1 manuals is available, though not all are relevant for OpenIFS.

Diagnostics

Manuals provided by GmapDoc website (MeteoFrance)

• FULLPOS 'In-model' post-processing on different vertical levels (FULLPOS user guide)
• DDH 'In-model' budgets on user-defined domains (DDH user guide).

Selected ECMWF scientific articles of interest

Numerics of physical parameterization,
Beljaars et al, Proceedings of 2004 ECMWF seminar on Advances in Numerical Techniques.

Other technical documentation:

• MARS - Data Archive Retrieval documentation.
• GRIB-API documentation.
• MAGICS graphics software. Includes manuals and training course materials.
• METVIEW visualisation, data processing desktop application.
• DrHook instrumentation tool userguide.

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Tutorials

ECMWF provide a number of tutorials useful for learning about aspects of OpenIFS related software. Please see Publications on main ECMWF website and follow links or follow specific links below.

• GRIB & grib_api training course notes: library and tools (PDFs)
• Metview visualisation tutorials: New users, GUI & macros.
• Magics plotting software: Simple & advanced usage.