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.
Detailed instructions on how to install, compile and OpenIFS, including accompanying software, are available on the Install pages.
Online manuals, useful links
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 relevant to OpenIFS
- Scientific and technical documentation for IFS - Cycle 37r2. (available as PDF files).
OpenIFS is based on Cycle 38r1 (operational model as of December 2012). Documentation for Cy38r2 will be available in 2013, however much of the Cy37r2 documentation is still valid. - Diagnostics: manuals provided by GmapDoc website (MeteoFrance)
- 'In-model' post-processing on different vertical levels (FULLPOS user guide)
- 'In-model' budgets on user-defined domains (DDH user guide).
- MARS - Data Archive Retrieval documentation.
- GRIB-API documentation.
- MAGICS graphics software. Includes manuals and training course materials.
- METVIEW visualisation, data processing desktop application.
Useful links
- Model climate: plots and statistics for control integrations of the various model cycles.
See IFS wiki for more detailed information about IFS Cycles and release notes.
Tutorials
ECMWF provide a number of tutorials useful for learning about aspects of OpenIFS related. Please see Publications on main ECMWF website and follow links.