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Model description paper |
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OpenIFS@home version 1: a citizen science project for ensemble weather and climate forecasting
Sarah Sparrow
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Oxford e-Research Centre, Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Andrew Bowery
Oxford e-Research Centre, Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Glenn D. Carver
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading,
UK
Marcus O. Köhler
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading,
UK
Pirkka Ollinaho
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Helsinki, Finland
Florian Pappenberger
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading,
UK
David Wallom
Oxford e-Research Centre, Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Antje Weisheimer
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading,
UK
National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), Physics department, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Short summary
This paper describes how the research version of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts’ Integrated Forecast System is combined with climateprediction.net’s public volunteer computing resource to develop OpenIFS@home. Thousands of volunteer personal computers simulated slightly different realizations of Tropical Cyclone Karl to demonstrate the performance of the large-ensemble forecast. OpenIFS@Home offers researchers a new tool to study weather forecasts and related questions.
This paper describes how the research version of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather...
