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

Monday, 16 May
8:30 AM → 9:10 AM
Registration opens

ECMWF

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40m
9:10 AM → 9:30 AM
Welcome, course overview
Speakers: Andy Brown (ECMWF), Sarah Keeley (ECMWF)
20m
9:30 AM → 10:15 AM
Introductions

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45m
10:15 AM → 10:40 AM
Ice breaker

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25m
10:40 AM → 11:45 AM
Building blocks of the forecast systems at ECMWF
Speaker: Sarah Keeley (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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1h 5m
11:45 AM → 11:55 AM
Comfort break

ECMWF

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10m
11:55 AM → 1:00 PM
Getting started with OpenIFS
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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1h 5m
1:00 PM → 2:00 PM
Lunch break and Chat

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1h
2:00 PM → 3:05 PM
Introduction to Parallel Programming
Speaker: Iain Miller (ECMWF)

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1h 5m
3:05 PM → 3:20 PM
Coffee break

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15m
3:20 PM → 4:50 PM
Submitting our first experiment
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)

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1h 30m
Tuesday, 17 May
9:00 AM → 10:15 AM
Introduction to ecCodes and GRIB, converting to netCDF
Speaker: Paul Dando (ECMWF)

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1h 15m
10:15 AM → 10:40 AM
Coffee break

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25m
10:40 AM → 11:45 AM
Introduction to Physical Processes in the IFS
Speaker: Richard Forbes (ECMWF)

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1h 5m
11:45 AM → 11:55 AM
Comfort break

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10m
11:55 AM → 1:00 PM
Introduction to Metview and Python API
Speakers: Sandor Kertesz, Iain Russell (ECMWF)

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1h 5m
1:00 PM → 2:00 PM
Lunch break and Chat

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1h
2:00 PM → 3:05 PM
Plotting our results
Speakers: Sandor Kertesz, Iain Russell (ECMWF)

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1h 5m
3:05 PM → 3:20 PM
Coffee break

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15m
3:20 PM → 5:05 PM
Designing perturbation experiments
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)

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1h 45m
Wednesday, 18 May
9:00 AM → 10:15 AM
Spectral transform method
Speaker: Andreas Müller (ECMWF)

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1h 15m
10:15 AM → 10:40 AM
Coffee break

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25m
10:40 AM → 11:45 AM
Introduction to the dynamical core
Speaker: Michail Diamantakis (ECMWF)

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1h 5m
11:45 AM → 11:55 AM
Comfort break

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10m
11:55 AM → 1:00 PM
Changing model code
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)

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1h 5m
1:00 PM → 2:00 PM
Lunch break

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1h
2:00 PM → 3:05 PM
A day in the life of a model developer

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1h 5m
3:05 PM → 3:20 PM
Coffee break

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15m
3:20 PM → 4:50 PM
A day in the life of a model developer

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1h 30m
5:15 PM → 7:15 PM
Social dinner (Shinfield Arms) (tbc)

ECMWF

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2h
Thursday, 19 May
9:00 AM → 10:15 AM
Analysing experiments - visualisation and understanding
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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1h 15m
10:15 AM → 10:40 AM
Coffee break

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25m
10:40 AM → 11:15 AM
Surface processes, lake model and climate fields
Speaker: Margarita Choulga (ECMWF)

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35m
11:15 AM → 1:05 PM
Radiative processes - ECRAD
Speaker: Robin Hogan (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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1h 50m
1:05 PM → 2:00 PM
Lunch break

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55m
2:00 PM → 3:05 PM
Changing the boundary conditions - SST experiments
Speaker: Sarah Keeley (ECMWF)

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1h 5m
3:05 PM → 3:20 PM
Coffee break

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15m
3:20 PM → 4:50 PM
Group work on results

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1h 30m
Friday, 20 May
9:00 AM → 10:15 AM
ERA5 Overview
Speakers: Edward Comyn-Platt, Hans Hersbach (ECMWF)

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1h 15m
10:15 AM → 11:25 AM
Coffee break and networking events

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1h 10m
11:25 AM → 11:45 AM
Web based tools for OpenIFS
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)

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20m
11:45 AM → 11:55 AM
Comfort break

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10m
11:55 AM → 1:00 PM
Presentations and discussions

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1h 5m
1:00 PM → 1:15 PM
Course wrap-up and certificates

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15m

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