Register your interest
To register your interest in the OpenIFS model(s) please complete our registration form to the right. This will be sent to the OpenIFS team who will respond as soon as possible. Please note that the OpenIFS licence covers the use of the 3D OpenIFS model, the single column model (SCM) and the off-line surface model (OSM). A separate licence for each is not required.
Any queries before completing the form can be sent to : openifs-support@ecmwf.int.
Release files
The OpenIFS model is available as tarfiles from the ECMWF ftp site along with example initial conditions and additional software. The ftp site is password protected and users are provided with the password when the license has been completed.
OpenIFS is also available as a Git repository for selected developers and users. For more details please contact: openifs-support@ecmwf.int.
Getting started
For instructions on downloading and installing OpenIFS please see: User Guide.
License
See Licensing for more details.
OpenIFS is provided free to institutes (e.g. Universities) for educational and research use but requires a license to be signed before access to the model code is provided. It is not open source nor public domain software and we do not provide personal licenses.
Licensing of OpenIFS should not be seen as a barrier to use of the model. Please contact openifs-support@ecmwf.int for any queries.
We ask interested users to send a short description of their intended use of the model.
Our aim is to work closely with new users to provide good support & training in return for feedback which we can use for reporting purposes. This may mean that from time to time we temporarily suspend new licenses in order not to overload our support capabilities.