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.
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 38r1. (available as PDF files).
OpenIFS is based on Cycle 38r1 (operational model as of December 2012) but does not include any data assimilation capability. - 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 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.