This five-day course has a strong practical component and 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). It is an opportunity to learn about: the building blocks of the NWP model (physics and dynamics); how to work with the output and input GRIB data and visualise it; technical aspects of compiling ...