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

IFS Manuals for Cycle 38r1 (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.

IFS manuals for all model cycles

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

Diagnostics

Manuals provided by GmapDoc website (MeteoFrance)

FULLPOS 'In-model' post-processing

• FULLPOS scientific doc cycle 38 (PDF)
• FULLPOS user guide (PDF)
  This is for an older cycle but still useful introduction to FULLPOS.
• FULLPOS scientists guide (PDF)
  This for an older model cycle.

DDH 'In-model' budgets on user-defined domains

• User guide (PDF).

ECMWF scientific articles of interest

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

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.

Software tools

• 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.