ProgrammeThis 3 day meeting consists of a day of presentations by OpenIFS/IFS users, with keynote presentations by Prof Erland Kallen (Director of Research) and Dr Peter Bechtold from ECMWF. The meeting will continue with two days of hands-on practicals and discussion session led by ECMWF staff on using OpenIFS and other ECMWF software tools. This year, the focus of the hands-on practicals will be convection. There will also be opportunities to discuss OpenIFS and Metview with ECMWF staff. The programme for the meeting is available as a PDF by clicking this link. On arrival, please go to the lecture room, C609, 6th floor Arrhenius Laboratory, Department of Meteorology where the meeting will take place on the first day. The workshop dinner will be on Weds 11th June. Anyone with special dietary requirements is asked to let the meeting organisers know. VenueDepartment of Meteorology, MISU Arrhenius Laboratory, 6th Floor Svante Arrhenius Väg 16C Frescati Campus. Information on how to reach MISU is available. EnquiriesFor more information, please contact: openifs-workshop@ecmwf.int or the local organiser; Dr Abdel Hannachi (a.hannachi@misu.su.se). AccommodationStockholm has a wide variety of hotels and hostels and the standard is very good. Websites like www.hotels.com or ww.lastminute.com are useful for searching hotels.
For hostels/guesthouses there is : http://www.hostels.com/stockholm/sweden/. Some suggestions are: Elite Hotel Arcadia is one subway stop from the University with good rates and recommended.
http://www.elite.se/eng/node/1403 Zinkensdamm has both a hotel part and a less expensive hostel part for those looking for lower price accommodation.
http://www.zinkensdamm.com/en/ Comfort Hotel
https://www.nordicchoicehotels.se/comfort/comfort-hotel-stockholm/ Central Hotel
http://www.profilhotels.com/centralhotel/ Hotel Oden
http://www.hoteloden.se/ Hotel Columbus
http://www.columbushotell.se/index.aspx?languageID=6 Rex Hotel
http://rexhotel.se/en/Rex_hotel |