The European Meteorological Society's annual conference was held in Trieste, Italy, from 12-16 September 2016.

There were several presentations on OpenIFS:

• Oleg Stepanyuk, Jouni Räisänen, Victoria Sinclair, and Heikki Järvinen,
  
  Factors affecting atmospheric vertical motions as analyzed with a
  generalized omega equation and OpenIFS model: a statistical study
  Abstract (PDF)
• Victoria Sinclair and Jennifer Catto,
  

  Do tropical sea surface temperatures affect polewards moisture transport

  and precipitation in the extra-tropics?
  Abstract (PDF),  Presentation (PDF)