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OpenIFS user meeting, 4-6 June 2013, Helsinki

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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.

Programme

The 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 19 May 2013.

The programme consists of a day of presentations with a keynote presentation by Prof Erland Kallen, ECMWF, and two workshop days using OpenIFS to run and visualize case studies of Hurricane Sandy.

Venue

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

The seminars will be held in the Finnish Meteorological Institute (Dynamicum building) and the practicals in the University of Helsinki, Department of Physics (Physicum building). On Tuesday 4th, please come directly to Dynamicum.

The locations of the buildings are shown on this map: http://www.helsinki.fi/kumpula/kuvat/Kumpulakartta.pdf

Travel

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

The 6 and 8 trams stop very close to the Campus (tram stop: Kyläsaarenkatu, marked "A" on the above map). Numerous buses from the city centre also serve the campus (closest bus stop: Kumpulan kampus, marked E,F,G,H on the above map). Additional information about public transport in Helsinki can be found here: http://www.hsl.fi/EN/Pages/default.aspx

Enquiries

Programme

Meeting programme (PDF)

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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7th OpenIFS User Meeting: 13-15th May 2024 
Virtual online meeting.

6th OpenIFS User Meeting: 22nd-26th May 2023 
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain.

5th OpenIFS User Meeting: 17th-21st June 2019
University of Reading, UK.

ENM/OpenIFS Workshop: 18-21th June 2018
École Nationale de la Météorologie, Toulouse, France.

4th OpenIFS User Meeting: 5-9th June 2017
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

ENM/OpenIFS Workshop: 15-19th May 2017
École Nationale de la Météorologie, Toulouse, France.

ENM/OpenIFS Workshop: 7-9th June 2016
École Nationale de la Météorologie, Toulouse, France.

3rd OpenIFS User Meeting: 10-12th June 2015.
Venue: ECMWF. Organised by the University of Oxford, UK.

2nd OpenIFS User Meeting: June, 2014.
University of Stockholm, Sweden.

1st OpenIFS User Meeting : June 2013.
University of Helsinki, Finland. Blog on OpenIFS user meeting.

Workshop case study exercises

The case study exercises, all data files and Metview plotting macros, for all the previous workshops are available from the OpenIFS ftp site.
Please see OpenIFS Education and training resources for more details.

ECMWF workshops and seminars

See these pages for more details of the workshops and seminars at ECMWF:

• • ECMWF workshops
  • ECMWF seminars