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Description

Learning objectives

• the notion of convective adjustment and the mass flux concept in particular
•  the basic concepts behind the ECMWF convection parametrization and some useful numerical tricks

Audience

Post-graduate researchers, forecasters

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CONVECTION_T2_2016.ppt

Full lecture notes (prose) to support slides
 

http://www.ecmwf.int/sites/default/files/Atmospheric_moist_convection.pdf

Description

Learning objectives

By the end of the module, participants will have an understanding of the concepts behind ensemble forecasting, sources of uncertainty and their qualification. They will also be familiar with a number of products derived from the ensemble forecasting system

Audience

Forecasters, product developer, weather providers, scientists

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Why ensemble forecasting?

Description

The extended-range forecast (also known as Monthly forecast) provide an overview of the forecast for the coming 46 days, focusing mainly on the week-to-week changes in the weather. The system is run as an extension of the ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System twice a week. It is run 51 times from slightly different initial conditions. One forecast, called the control forecast, is run from the operational ocean and atmosphere ECMWF analyses. 50 additional integrations, the perturbed members, are made from slightly different initial atmospheric and oceanic conditions, which are designed to represent the uncertainties inherent in the operational analyses. The modules will introduce the system, predictability concepts and products made available by ECMWF.

Learning objectives

By the end of the module, participants will be familiar with the sources of predictability for the extended range forecasts, the set up of the Monthly forecasting system at ECMWF and its skills, and products available on the ECMWF website.

Audience

Forecasters, product developer, weather providers

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Description

Metview is a meteorological workstation application designed to be a complete working environment for both the operational and research meteorologist. Its capabilities include powerful data access, processing and visualisation.

Learning objectives

The module introduces basics concepts and it shows how to retrieve data from MARS using Metview, perform some basic manipulations and plot the result.

Learning objectives

By the end of the module, participants will be able to retrieve data from ECMWF meteorological archive, manipulate the data and plot them.

Audience

Forecasters, product developer, weather providers

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A Quick Tour of Metview

ECMWF New Users Metview Tutorial

***** NEED TO CHOOSE *******

Description

The aim of this tutorial is to introduce ecFlow functionalities by building a simple suite. Complexity is introduced gradually.

Each page of the online tutorial introduces a new concept and provides a list of exercises to complete. Links to relevant ecFlow documentation is also provided.

Learning objectives

By the end of the module, participants will be familiar with ecFlow functionalities and will be able to build simple suites.

Audience

Technical staff, IT developers 

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ecFlow tutorial

Description

ECMWF has developed ecCodes : is an application program interface developed for decoding and encoding messages in GRIB. ecCodes relies on a useful set of command line tools to provide quick access to the messages, which will be introduced in the module.

Learning objectives

By the end of the module, participants will be familiar with a set of command line tools which provide an easy way to access and modify information contained in a GRIB messages. More specifically:

• Understanding the use of ecCodes and obtaining information about its installation

• Inspecting the content of GRIB files 

• Printing data values from GRIB messages 

• Comparing the content of GRIB messages 

• Copying GRIB messages 

• Making simple modifications to the GRIB header information 

Audience

Programmers and researchers who need to decode ECMWF data to use it in their applications

Link to module

https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/OPTR/ecCodes%3A+GRIB+and+BUFR+data+decoding+and+encoding+software?preview=/55128009/55128086/ecCodes_grib_tools.pdf

https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/OPTR/ecCodes%3A+GRIB+and+BUFR+data+decoding+and+encoding+software?preview=/55128009/55128630/eccodes-grib-tools2-2016.pdf

Practical: https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/OPTR/Solutions+for+GRIB+tools+compare+practicals

Practical: https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/OPTR/Solutions+to+GRIB+tools+modify+practicals

Description

Learning objectives

Audience

Learning objectives

By the end of the module, participants will be able to build their own data requests including simple data manipulation.

Audience

Programmers and researchers who need to retrieve ECMWF data from MARS

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Introduction to MARS

practicals: MARS example requests