IFS manuals for all model cycles

IFS manuals are available here.

The manuals on 'Dynamics & Numerical Procedures', 'Physical Processes' and 'Technical & Computational Procedures' are the ones most appropriate for OpenIFS.

Additional ECMWF documentation

• Numerics of physical parameterization,
    Beljaars et al, Proceedings of 2004 ECMWF seminar on Advances in Numerical Techniques.
• Ocean wave model output parameters (Jean-Raymond Bidlot - 2016).
• Radiation quantities in the ECMWF model (Robin Hogan)

Diagnostics

Manuals provided by GmapDoc website (MeteoFrance)

FULLPOS 'In-model' post-processing

Cycle 43r3

• FULLPOS scientific doc (PDF)

Cycle 38r1/40r1

• FULLPOS scientific doc  (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

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 user guide.

ECMWF produce online, freely available, e-Learning courses on a range of topics.

Please visit the ECMWF e-Learning portal for the full list.  Courses include for example:

• Parametrization of diabatic processes.
• Parametrization of sub-grid processes.
• Ensemble forecasting.