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OpenIFS help
- User Guides: please see the user guide 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 old. You can search the User Forums for answers or ask a message or question.
IFS scientific & technical documents
ECMWF 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.
OpenIFS is based on IFS Cycle 38r1 (operational model introduced December 2012).
IFS Manuals for Cycle 38r1 (PDF)
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 manuals are available, though not all are relevant for OpenIFS.
ECMWF scientific articles of interest
Numerics of physical parameterization,
Beljaars et al, Proceedings of 2004 ECMWF seminar on Advances in Numerical Techniques.
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).
Code standards for OpenIFS
Code in OpenIFS should be written to follow the conventions in use at ECMWF. Please follow this link to the document maintained by MeteoFrance: http://www.umr-cnrm.fr/gmapdoc//spip.php?article213&lang=en
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 user guide.
- Release notes (on Latest News)
- OpenIFS publications
- Email lists
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)
Other IFS based models
Arpege-ALADIN-AROME (MeteoFrance)
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