This advanced visualisation software has been developed by Andy Heaps at the University of Reading, and uses IDL. It has been developed with the Open University short course and school teaching in mind, and allows participants to see a lot more of how their model worlds have developed.

It unfortunately will only run on the Windows NT 4.0, 2000 and XP platforms.

You must be running, or have run, a climateprediction.net model to be able to use the package and, when you install it, you must have administrative rights for your computer.

The software can be downloaded here. It is a 20Mbyte download and should be saved to your C:\Program Files\Climate Prediction directory. Double click on the file and follow the instructions in the installation window.

Double click on the 'SVI' (Student Visualisation Interface) icon that has appeared on your desktop to launch the visualisation package.

Note that the visualisation window is 1020x700 when started up - we recommend a screen resolution of 1024x768 or 1280x1024, although some people do seem to have managed to get it to work with 800x600.

We have put together a user guide for the package - please let us know if it doesn't make sense or if some information is missing.

We will maintain a list of known bugs. If you discover something in the package which doesn't work as it ought to, please check this list, and, if we don't already know about it then contact us.