Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Sweden
10-12th June 2014
OpenIFS
OpenIFS is an ECMWF project that provides an easy-to-use academic version of the IFS forecast model. Use of OpenIFS for research and education is increasing across Europe.
This user meeting brings together OpenIFS/IFS users and interested parties from Universities, National Met Services and other organisations.
For information about last year's user meeting, please see: 1st OpenIFS user workshop (University of Helsinki)
Programme
This 3 day meeting consists of a day of presentations by OpenIFS/IFS users, with keynote presentations by Prof Erland Kallen (Director of Research) and Dr Peter Bechtold from ECMWF.
The meeting will continue with two days of hands-on practicals and discussion session led by ECMWF staff on using OpenIFS and other ECMWF software tools. This year, the focus of the hands-on practicals will be convection. There will also be opportunities to discuss OpenIFS and Metview with ECMWF staff.
The programme for the meeting is available as a PDF by clicking this link.
On arrival, please go to the lecture room, C609, 6th floor Arrhenius Laboratory, Department of Meteorology where the meeting will take place on the first day.
Venue
Department of Meteorology, MISU Arrhenius Laboratory, 6th Floor Svante Arrhenius Väg 16C Frescati Campus.
Information on how to reach MISU is available.
Enquiries
For more information, please contact: openifs-workshop@ecmwf.int or the local organiser; Dr Abdel Hannachi (a.hannachi@misu.su.se).
Accommodation
Stockholm has a wide variety of hotels and hostels and the standard is very good. Websites like www.hotels.com or ww.lastminute.com are useful for searching hotels.
For hostels/guesthouses there is : http://www.hostels.com/stockholm/sweden/.
Some suggestions are:
Elite Hotel Arcadia is one subway stop from the University with good rates and recommended.
http://www.elite.se/eng/node/1403
Zinkensdamm has both a hotel part and a less expensive hostel part for those looking for lower price accommodation.
http://www.zinkensdamm.com/en/
Comfort Hotel
https://www.nordicchoicehotels.se/comfort/comfort-hotel-stockholm/
Central Hotel
http://www.profilhotels.com/centralhotel/
Hotel Oden
http://www.hoteloden.se/
Hotel Columbus
http://www.columbushotell.se/index.aspx?languageID=6
Rex Hotel
http://rexhotel.se/en/Rex_hotel
Registration deadline is 15th May 2014. Registration is free.
We invite oral presentations from users of IFS, OpenIFS or related topics in NWP.
Please note: space is limited in the practical sessions (days 2 & 3). Registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis.