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 . 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. VenueDepartment of Meteorology, MISU Arrhenius Laboratory, 6th Floor Svante Arrhenius Väg 16C Frescati Campus. Information on how to reach MISU is available. Workshop dinnerThe dinner has been arranged for Weds 11th at the Cafe Corniche (http://cafecorniche.se/).
If you have any special dietary needs (e.g. vegetarian), please let the meeting organiser know in advance: a.hannachi@misu.su.se. PracticalsThe theme of the practicals this year is convection and we will be looking at case studies of tornado formation in the USA and convection over Africa. To get the most benefit from these practicals we recommend some revision on convective theory. A good starting point is the ECMWF training course notes by Peter Bechtold on 'Atmospheric Moist Convection' found here: http://old.ecmwf.int/newsevents/training/lecture_notes/LN_PA.html. The practicals will take place in the computer classrooms at the Dept. of Meteorology If anyone would like to work through the practicals with their laptop, wireless access at the Department can be provided. To run the practicals you will need the latest version of the VirtualBox or VMplayer software installed. 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 | 