Documentation

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.

Scientific & technical documentation

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 and documentation for other software

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.