Researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Helsinki describe OpenIFS, a version of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), as an “invaluable” tool for research and training.
For more information about this article on the 2015 OpenIFS user workshop, please follow this link:
http://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2015/openifs-user-meeting-focuses-uncertainty-nwp
Registration and call for abstracts is now open for the OpenIFS workshop 2015.
Organised by the University of Oxford, the meeting will be held at ECMWF headquarters in Reading, UK.
Dear colleagues,
A date for your 2015 diary.
The third OpenIFS user workshop will be from 10-12 June 2015.
It will be organised by the University of Oxford and held at ECMWF.
More information about the workshop will be posted on the OpenIFS meetings page next year: see Meetings and events
Dear all,
We would like to inform you that the registration for the ECMWF
education and training programme, which covers Numerical Weather
Prediction (NWP) and the use of the ECMWF forecast products and computer facilities, is still open.
The deadline for registration is *14th November 2014*.
We hoping to be able to notify applicants within a couple of weeks after the closing date.
Please visit the following link to register! Feel free to forward this
message to colleagues who may be interested in the training activities.
http://www.ecmwf.int/en/learning/training
We are sending this message via different channels, sorry for cross-posting.
Kind regards
Anna
The 2014 OpenIFS user workshop was held in Sweden at the University of Stockholm. The meeting was a chance for the small but growing OpenIFS user community to get together with ECMWF scientists, learn about the model and exchange information.
An article on this workshop has now been published in the summer 2014 edition of the ECMWF newsletter available here
I'd like to draw your attention to our new series of science 'webinars' given by ECMWF staff and this years ECMWF training courses. Webinars last approx 1hr on specific topics and are free to watch using a web browser. Forthcoming talks include:
27th Jan : Understanding the model climate (L. Magnusson)
Monthly forecasting (L. Ferranti)
28th Jan : Forecasting extreme events (I. Tsonevsky)
Extra-tropical cyclone tracking (T. Hewson)
Model errors and diagnostic tools (M. Rodwell)
30th Jan : Clouds and precipitation: (R. Forbes)
Registration is required, for more details please see:
https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/OPTR/ECMWF+Training+activities
ECMWF training courses take place at ECMWF between March and May on topics such as data assimilation, advanced methods for Earth-System modelling, parametrization of physical processes and predictability. The courses are free and places are limited. Registration deadline is Friday 24th January.
Dr Victoria Sinclair, from the University of Helsinki, presented a paper entitled 'Moisture transport to Antarctica by extra-tropical cyclones' at the recent 13th European Meteorological Society annual meeting, September, in Reading, UK. Her study is one of the first to use the ECMWF OpenIFS model. The abstract and presentation are available from the EMS conference website.
An OpenIFS user meeting is being organised by the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. The draft programme is now available. Please see the call announcement for more details.
An oral presentation on the OpenIFS project and model was given at EGU 2013. For details of the session and link to the abstract see: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/orals/12394
An OpenIFS user meeting is being organised by the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
Please see the first call announcement for more details.
OpenIFS is based on CY38R1 of IFS - the current operational cycle.
Full documentation for this cycle is now available from the ECMWF eLibrary for Cycle 38r1.
Note that as OpenIFS does not include any observation processing or data assimilation, not all of the chapters are relevant.
A new HowTo on adding or changing the OpenIFS code can be found here:
It describes how to use the FCM make command to only copy the files you alter rather than the entire source directory and gives some examples as starting points.
Glenn
The OpenIFS website is now open with no viewing restrictions. Anyone can view the pages. Licensed users are given write access to the wiki pages to make comments, host their own pages and so on.
The website is at:
https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/OIFS
Glenn Carver
We welcome new users of OpenIFS from:
- University of Helsinki, Finland.
- StonyBrook University, New York, USA.
- University College Dublin, Ireland.
- University of Reading, UK.
- University of Manchester, UK.
- University of Ghent, Belgium.
- Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Hungary.
Licenses for these institutions are being processed and we look forward to working with these groups.