Credits

The OpenIFS team is: Adrian Hill (project manager) and Marcus Köhler in the Research Department at ECMWF.

We thank our former OpenIFS team colleagues:  Glenn Carver (OpenIFS project manager until 2021), Gabriella Szepszo, and Filip Vana. 

We thank our colleagues in ECMWF's forecast department for their assistance in preparing Metview macros & case studies for OpenIFS workshops, and in developing the virtual machines, in particular: Sandor Kertesz, Iain Russell, Linus Magnusson, Stephan Siemen.

We also thank our colleagues in ECMWF's research department for providing help and advice, some of whom have contributed significantly to this project, in particular: Peter Bauer, Peter Bechtold, Anton Beljaars, Nick Benson, Paul Burton, Mats Hamrud, Elizabeth Joyce, Simon Lang, Martin Leutbecher, Sylvie Malardel, George Mozdzynski, Deborah Salmond, Daniel Varela Santoalla, Peter Towers, Agathe Untch, Nils Wedi and Tomas Wilhelmsson. Thanks also go to Rob Hine for designing the OpenIFS logo & artwork.

We thank our colleagues at Météo-France for their support for the project. We gratefully acknowledge their permission to include the DDH and FULLPOS software in OpenIFS for which they own the intellectual property rights.

Thanks are due to our colleagues at the UK Meteorological Office for their assistance with FCM: David Matthews and Matt Shin.

A final thanks to those early users of the OpenIFS code who provided valuable feedback and technical assistance and for established OpenIFS users for their feedback and contributions.