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Welcome to the help pages for the "Classic" climateprediction.net model interface.
When the programme starts it launches a window similar to the one displayed below (see
Figure 1). This window contains several features:
Figure 1. Client screenshot showing menus, status and progress information
Menus in the climate prediction.net client
Our client has the following set of menus that can be used for an easy
navigation through the client's capabilities and extensions.
- My Experiment
- Visualisation
- Settings
- Help
My Experiment
This menu allows you to stop and start the model running on your machine.
The client can be restarted or resumed using the menu options.
When the client stops running it will return to the last check point.
During the experiment check points will be created every 3 days (of model
time). Should any of the data not be saved correctly the client will return
to the first day of the month to start the calculation. Options are:
- Halt - Stops the model running. When the model is next run it automatically
searches for the most recent check point file and begins its simulation
from there.
- Restart - Restarts the model after a halt.
- Pause - Pauses the model, allows it to continue from the most recent
timestep calculated.
- Resume - Unpauses the model, which carries on from the point at which
it was paused.
- Upload my results - choose this option if you have had to interupt the normal upload of results at the
end of an experiment - for example if you had to close your internet connection for a while.
- Exit - Closes down the program.
Visualisation
The visualisation package included in the test version of climateprediction.net
allows you to view your globe as the model evolves. When the package starts
it will give you 5 viewing options to choose from:
- Smoothed snow and cloud coverage
- Unsmoothed snow and cloud coverage
- Temperature Cell Map
- Precipitation Cell Map
- Pressure Cell Map
The choices given will give you some idea about how the model is progressing.
Options 2, 3, 4 and 5 give a good idea of how the model "looks"
in the sense that it shows grid box resolution. Option 1 appears more
like the real world and the contours have been calculated using smoothing functions
applied to the grid style data output from the model seen in option 2.
Right click for options within the visualisation. Left click, hold and move the mouse pointer to rotate the globe.
Visit the visualisation pages for more help.
Settings
Here you can change your registered e mail address, with instant effect, or look at your registered profile
(via your personal web page at www.climateprediction.net)
This menu option allows you to set up a proxy server if you normally
use one to connect to the internet. If you leave this blank the client
will connect to the internet in the usual way. If you are unsure about
whether you use a proxy server it is best to leave the server prompt blank.
Check Central Server Connection - tests your internet connection to the project's servers.
The climateprediction.net experiment runs in a client you have
downloaded and installed on your computer. Your client can be in various
states depending on the circumstances. The status information in your client
interface tells you the current status of the program - whether it is setting
itself up (e.g. when you've just rebooted your computer), whether it is
running, paused, stopped, etc. Altogether, there are ten possible states
here - we briefly describe each of them for an easy orientation clustered
into colours:
- Status colour is GREEN
- Model is running
- Model is being launched
- Model is being closed
- Model is uploading results
- Model is downloading climate files
- Status colour is ORANGE
- Model is conducting 'inter-phase' processing
- Model is doing post-processing
- Status colour is RED
- Model is paused
- Model is halted
- Model requires your registration/attention
Generally speaking, if the status messages are GREEN they indicate
that the model is either launching, running or connecting to servers.
If messages are ORANGE then the program is processing files it has previously
created. If messages are RED then the model is either stopped, paused
or requires you to register or connect to the internet before it can do
anything else.
A similar strategy for showing the importance of messages is used for the information
on the server link status. The 'link' in this case means that your client wants to
communicate with one of our server computers. This will not happen too frequently, but
if it does, it may be from one of the following reasons:
- Status colour is GREEN
- Model is running. No internet connection needed.
- Model is successfully connected to server
- Status colour is RED
- Model is paused.
- Model is halted
- Model wants to upload some files. Needs you to connect to the Internet.
- Model requires your registration/attention
As a general rule, if the server link messages are GREEN then the model
is 'happy' and usually working without any user's intervention. If the
message is RED then the program needs user intervention.
Progress
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