Documentation

OpenIFS help

User Guide: 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
User Forums. You can search the User Forums for answers or ask a message or question.

IFS scientific & technical documents

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 at: http://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/publications.

Scientific & technical documentation

OpenIFS is based on IFS Cycle 38r1 (operational model introduced December 2012).

Manuals (PDF)

The PDF manuals are also available for download (together with a web based
source code browser) from the OpenIFS ftp site.

The full list of IFS 38R1 manuals is available, though not all are relevant for OpenIFS.

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).

ECMWF scientific articles of interest

Numerics of physical parameterization,
Beljaars et al, Proceedings of 2004 ECMWF seminar on Advances in Numerical Techniques.

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.

GRIB & grib_api training course notes: library and tools (PDFs)
Metview visualisation tutorials: New users, GUI & macros.
Magics plotting software: Simple & advanced usage.

Software tools

MARS - Data Archive Retrieval documentation.
GRIB-API documentation.
MAGICS graphics software. Includes manuals and training course materials.
METVIEW visualisation, data processing desktop application.
DrHook instrumentation tool userguide.

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