ecFlow Quickstart

Let's get started with ECFLOW! This is a repo with an extremely condensed tutorial on how to get started with ECFLOW. It is meant as a starting point for new users, from users to users.

In terms of complexity, the examples are very simple. The examples are ordered by complexity as follows:

• suite_no_family
• suite_with_families
• suite_ecf_collected

Please find the full tutorial on how to use ecFlow here provided by ECMWF.

ecFlow Terms

ecFlow operates with suites. A suite is a collection of families and tasks. One suite could be a configuration of a model that one wants to run. Families could then be steps in the model (like preprocessing, forecast and postprocessing), and tasks could be the actual jobs that are run.

• suite
  • family1
    • task1
    • task2
  • family2
    • task3
    • task4

Prerequisites

• ecflow
• python

Install ecflow using conda

In these examples an installation from a conda environment was used. The yaml file was defined as follows:

name: ec
channels:
    - conda-forge
dependencies:
    - python
    - pip
    - ecflow

And the environment was created as follows:

conda env create -f ec.yaml