OpenIFS help
Information specific to OpenIFS can be found on the following pages. See sections below for other useful documentation including detailed scientific and technical documentation about IFS and accompanying software.
- Guide to using FCM to build OpenIFS
- HowTos: find out how to do a number of things such as altering the code, changing model output, visualizing the output, debugging and so on.
- Frequently Asked Questions
- User Forums. You can search the User Forums for answers or ask a message or question.
See the Install pages for detailed instructions on how to install, compile and OpenIFS, including accompanying software.
IFS scientific & technical manuals and related scientific documents
ECMWF have 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 online at: http://www.ecmwf.int/publications.
Manuals/guides relevant to OpenIFS | Selected scientific articles | |
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| 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.
Related material & documents from other IFS-based models
Related material | Other IFS based models | |
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| Arpege-ALADIN-AROME (MeteoFrance) |