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Note

Download and extraction of the OpenIFS 48r1 sources tarball is only required if a user has not previously done this for a general OpenIFS install.

If a user has already downloaded the OpenIFS package to install the 3D model, there is no need to extract the package again, since the SCM is packaged with OpenIFS. 

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languagebash
themeMidnight
cd $HOME
wget https://sites.ecmwf.int/openifs/openifs-data/scm/48r1/scm_openifs_48r1.1.tar.gz
tar -xvzf scm_openifs_48r1.tar.gz
Note

The untarred SCM package is small, ~45 Mb and data produced by a standard individual SCM simulation is also low. However, if I user is planning to perform many simulations and store the data, which is often the case, the disk space usage can become large. If this is the plan, then a user may need to consider installing the SCM test-case package on a larger disk area than HOME