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OpenIFS main help
- Technical Description: get an overview of the parts that make up the model and some of the underlying scientific concepts (largely independent from model release)
- OpenIFS User GuideGuides: please see the user guide guides of all supported model releases for instructions on how to install and run OpenIFS.
- How-to articles: find out how to do a number of things such as altering the code, changing model output, visualizing the output, debugging and so on.
- Known issues: lists various known problems and their resolution.
- Frequently Asked Questions
- User Forums. You can search the User Forums for answers or ask a message or question.
IFS scientific & technical documents
ECMWF have has many publications online, including user manuals, tutorials, seminar proceedings, technical reports and the newsletter, amongst other documents.
The full list of ECMWF publications can be found at: http://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/publications
Scientific and technical documentation for IFS - Cycle 38r1.
OpenIFS is based on IFS Cycle 38r1 (operational model introduced December 2012).
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.
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A more general complete description of the ECMWF Integrated Forecast System (IFS) can be found in the ECMWF Forecast User Guide.
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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:
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Related documents
Model climate (login required): plots and statistics for control integrations of the various model cycles.
ALADIN IFS training workshop (some technical presentations relevant to OpenIFS)
Basics on Arpege/IFS 43r3 (from Meteo-France, some is relevant for OpenIFS 43r3)
Other IFS based models
Arpege-ALADIN-AROME (MeteoFrance)