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

Europe/London
Description

This course was a remote event.

This training event was originally scheduled for 16-20 March 2020 and had to be cancelled due to the situation around COVID-19. It is now scheduled for 24-27 May 2021.

The course will draw on numerical weather prediction expertise from across ECMWF and provide an overview of the ECMWF model while giving hands-on sessions to give you confidence to carry out your own experimentation with the OpenIFS model (or the IFS).

Learning objectives:

  1. understand the core scientific and numerical elements of a NWP model
  2. be able to install, modify and work with the model
  3. conduct experiments using a extreme weather example and manipulate model output.  
Events team
    • 08:35 09:00
      Technical setup ready for start of course
    • 09:00 09:30
      Welcome and introduction (zoom) 30m

      https://ecmwf.zoom.us/j/95466841371

      Speakers: Andy Brown (ECMWF), Dr Sarah Keeley (ECMWF)
    • 09:30 10:15
      Introduction to NWP at ECMWF (zoom) 45m
      Speaker: Sarah Keeley (ECMWF)
    • 10:15 10:45
      Coffee break 30m
    • 10:45 12:00
      Introduction to OpenIFS for new users / Hands-on: Acceptance testing 1h 15m
      Speaker: Dr Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch break and Chat 1h
    • 13:00 13:30
      Introduction to Parallel Programming OpenMP vs MPI 30m
      Speaker: Dr Iain Miller (ECMWF)
    • 13:30 13:45
      Coffee Break 15m
    • 13:45 14:45
      Introduction to ecCodes and GRIB 1h
      Speaker: Paul Dando (ECMWF)
    • 14:45 15:00
      Coffee break 15m
    • 15:00 16:30
      OpenIFS practical NAWDEX control run 1h 30m
      Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)
    • 08:40 09:00
      Trouble shooting (optional) 20m

      Did your control experiment run?

      Speaker: Dr Glenn Carver (ECMWF)
    • 09:00 09:55
      Introduction to Physical Processes in the IFS 55m
      Speaker: Richard Forbes (ECMWF)
    • 09:55 10:25
      Coffee break 30m
    • 10:25 11:45
      Visualising model output: Introduction to Metview and MetviewPython 1h 20m
      Speakers: Iain Russell (ECMWF), Sandor Kertesz
    • 11:45 12:45
      Lunch break and Chat 1h
    • 12:45 14:00
      OpenIFS practical NAWDEX - let's look at the results 1h 15m
      Speaker: Marcus Koehler and Metview Team (ECMWF)
    • 14:00 14:15
      Coffee break 15m
    • 14:15 15:15
      OpenIFS practical NAWDEX perturbed runs 1h
      Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)
    • 15:15 15:35
      Coffee break 20m
    • 15:35 17:00
      OpenIFS practical NAWDEX perturbed runs 1h 25m
      Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)
    • 08:40 09:00
      Trouble shooting (optional) 20m

      Did your control experiment run?

      Speaker: Dr Glenn Carver (ECMWF)
    • 09:00 10:00
      The IFS dynamical core and its new features in cycle 43r3 1h
      Speaker: Michail Diamantakis (ECMWF)
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee break 30m
    • 10:30 12:00
      Introduction to Spectral transform (with practical) 1h 30m
      Speaker: Andreas Müller (ECMWF)
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch break and Chat 1h
    • 13:00 14:30
      Radiative processes ecRAD and practical 1h 30m
      Speaker: Robin Hogan (ECMWF)
    • 14:30 14:40
      Coffee break 10m
    • 14:40 15:10
      Surface processes and climate fields 30m
      Speaker: Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF)
    • 15:10 15:25
      Coffee break 15m
    • 15:25 16:40
      Creating SST forcing files 1h 15m
      Speaker: Sarah Keeley (ECMWF)
    • 08:40 09:00
      Trouble shooting (optional) 20m

      Did your control experiment run?

      Speaker: Dr Glenn Carver (ECMWF)
    • 09:00 09:40
      ERA5 Overview 40m
      Speaker: Hans Hersbach (ECMWF)
    • 09:40 10:20
      Introduction to Climate Data Store 40m
      Speaker: Edward Comyn-Platt (ECMWF)
    • 10:20 10:50
      Coffee break 30m
    • 10:50 12:00
      Model and I.C. uncertainty - How we create an ensemble 1h 10m
      Speaker: Sarah-Jane Lock (ECMWF)
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch break 1h
    • 13:00 14:05
      OpenIFS practical - looking at our perturbed runs 1h 5m
      Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)
    • 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