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

Monday, 16 May
08:30 → 09:10
Registration opens

ECMWF

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40m
09:10 → 09:30
Welcome, course overview
Speakers: Andy Brown (ECMWF), Sarah Keeley (ECMWF)
20m
09:30 → 10:15
Introductions

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45m
10:15 → 10:40
Ice breaker

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

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1h 5m
11:45 → 11:55
Comfort break

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10m
11:55 → 13:00
Getting started with OpenIFS
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)

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1h 5m
13:00 → 14:00
Lunch break and Chat

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1h
14:00 → 15:05
Introduction to Parallel Programming
Speaker: Iain Miller (ECMWF)

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1h 5m
15:05 → 15:20
Coffee break

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15m
15:20 → 16:50
Submitting our first experiment
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)

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1h 30m
Tuesday, 17 May
09:00 → 10:15
Introduction to ecCodes and GRIB, converting to netCDF
Speaker: Paul Dando (ECMWF)

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1h 15m
10:15 → 10:40
Coffee break

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

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1h 5m
11:45 → 11:55
Comfort break

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10m
11:55 → 13:00
Introduction to Metview and Python API
Speakers: Sandor Kertesz, Iain Russell (ECMWF)

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1h 5m
13:00 → 14:00
Lunch break and Chat

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1h
14:00 → 15:05
Plotting our results
Speakers: Sandor Kertesz, Iain Russell (ECMWF)

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1h 5m
15:05 → 15:20
Coffee break

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15m
15:20 → 17:05
Designing perturbation experiments
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)

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1h 45m
Wednesday, 18 May
09:00 → 10:15
Spectral transform method
Speaker: Andreas Müller (ECMWF)

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1h 15m
10:15 → 10:40
Coffee break

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

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1h 5m
11:45 → 11:55
Comfort break

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10m
11:55 → 13:00
Changing model code
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)

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1h 5m
13:00 → 14:00
Lunch break

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1h
14:00 → 15:05
A day in the life of a model developer

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1h 5m
15:05 → 15:20
Coffee break

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15m
15:20 → 16:50
A day in the life of a model developer

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1h 30m
17:15 → 19:15
Social dinner (Shinfield Arms) (tbc)

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2h
Thursday, 19 May
09:00 → 10:15
Analysing experiments - visualisation and understanding
Speaker: Marcus Koehler (ECMWF)

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1h 15m
10:15 → 10:40
Coffee break

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

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35m
11:15 → 13:05
Radiative processes - ECRAD
Speaker: Robin Hogan (ECMWF)

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1h 50m
13:05 → 14:00
Lunch break

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55m
14:00 → 15:05
Changing the boundary conditions - SST experiments
Speaker: Sarah Keeley (ECMWF)

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1h 5m
15:05 → 15:20
Coffee break

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15m
15:20 → 16:50
Group work on results

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1h 30m
Friday, 20 May
09:00 → 10:15
ERA5 Overview
Speakers: Edward Comyn-Platt, Hans Hersbach (ECMWF)

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

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

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20m
11:45 → 11:55
Comfort break

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10m
11:55 → 13:00
Presentations and discussions

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1h 5m
13:00 → 13:15
Course wrap-up and certificates

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15m

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