Rescheduled Training course: A hands-on introduction to Numerical Weather Prediction Models: Understanding and Experimenting

Monday, 24 May
08:35 → 09:00
Technical setup ready for start of course
 25m
09:00 → 09:30
Welcome and introduction (zoom)
Speakers: Andy Brown (ECMWF), Sarah Keeley (ECMWF)
30m
09:30 → 10:15
Introduction to NWP at ECMWF (zoom)
Speaker: Sarah Keeley (ECMWF)
45m
10:15 → 10:45
Coffee break
30m
10:45 → 12:00
Introduction to OpenIFS for new users / Hands-on: Acceptance testing
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)
1h 15m
12:00 → 13:00
Lunch break and Chat
1h
13:00 → 13:30
Introduction to Parallel Programming OpenMP vs MPI
Speaker: Iain Miller (ECMWF)
30m
13:30 → 13:45
Coffee Break
15m
13:45 → 14:45
Introduction to ecCodes and GRIB
Speaker: Paul Dando (ECMWF)
1h
14:45 → 15:00
Coffee break
15m
15:00 → 16:30
OpenIFS practical NAWDEX control run
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)
1h 30m
Tuesday, 25 May
08:40 → 09:00
Trouble shooting (optional)
Speaker: Glenn Carver (ECMWF)
20m
09:00 → 09:55
Introduction to Physical Processes in the IFS
Speaker: Richard Forbes (ECMWF)
55m
09:55 → 10:25
Coffee break
30m
10:25 → 11:45
Visualising model output: Introduction to Metview and MetviewPython
Speakers: Iain Russell (ECMWF), Sandor Kertesz
1h 20m
11:45 → 12:45
Lunch break and Chat
1h
12:45 → 14:00
OpenIFS practical NAWDEX - let's look at the results
Speaker: Marcus Koehler and Metview Team (ECMWF)
1h 15m
14:00 → 14:15
Coffee break
15m
14:15 → 15:15
OpenIFS practical NAWDEX perturbed runs
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)
1h
15:15 → 15:35
Coffee break
20m
15:35 → 17:00
OpenIFS practical NAWDEX perturbed runs
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)
1h 25m
Wednesday, 26 May
08:40 → 09:00
Trouble shooting (optional)
Speaker: Glenn Carver (ECMWF)
20m
09:00 → 10:00
The IFS dynamical core and its new features in cycle 43r3
Speaker: Michail Diamantakis (ECMWF)
1h
10:00 → 10:30
Coffee break
30m
10:30 → 12:00
Introduction to Spectral transform (with practical)
Speaker: Andreas Müller (ECMWF)
1h 30m
12:00 → 13:00
Lunch break and Chat
1h
13:00 → 14:30
Radiative processes ecRAD and practical
Speaker: Robin Hogan (ECMWF)
1h 30m
14:30 → 14:40
Coffee break
10m
14:40 → 15:10
Surface processes and climate fields
Speaker: Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF)
30m
15:10 → 15:25
Coffee break
15m
15:25 → 16:40
Creating SST forcing files
Speaker: Sarah Keeley (ECMWF)
1h 15m
Thursday, 27 May
08:40 → 09:00
Trouble shooting (optional)
Speaker: Glenn Carver (ECMWF)
20m
09:00 → 09:40
ERA5 Overview
Speaker: Hans Hersbach (ECMWF)
40m
09:40 → 10:20
Introduction to Climate Data Store
Speaker: Edward Comyn-Platt (ECMWF)
40m
10:20 → 10:50
Coffee break
30m
10:50 → 12:00
Model and I.C. uncertainty - How we create an ensemble
Speaker: Sarah-Jane Lock (ECMWF)
1h 10m
12:00 → 13:00
Lunch break
1h
13:00 → 14:05
OpenIFS practical - looking at our perturbed runs
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)
1h 5m
14:05 → 14:20
Coffee break
15m
14:20 → 15:20
OpenIFS practical - summarising our results
1h
15:20 → 15:40
Coffee break
20m
15:40 → 16:25
Presentations and course wrap up
45m

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