New User Atlantis Workflow
For brand new users of Atlantis, the typical way of getting across the topic and starting a model is to
- Join the wiki - so step 1 is already done (wink)
- Have a quick look around the wiki and read the useful reading page - which has some example papers to see if Atlantis is really what you want to do, as well as some general things that are helpful when modelling
- Check out Atlantis GitHub page for further documentation and an example model application
- If you do want to try Atlantis please go to the licence page and follow those directions (emailing the results to Atlantis support) to get access to the code
- Check out the code from the SVN repository (directions will be supplied when you send the licence agreement to Bec and Beth)
- Get the code compiling on your machine (see the developers part of the wiki for guidance on that)
- Play with the example SETas model, which also provides so useful example input files
- Read the useful tools and tips page and also the “Asking for help” page so you can start self-help (this along with asking on the google group is much faster than waiting on Beth and Bec, but also see Set-up - Software & Code)
- Use the wiki, existing documentation, the pages on Parameterising and Running Atlantis and the Atlantis User Manual (being written now, contact Beth for progress update) to see what’s needed to start building a model
- Useful tools for building the model, calibrating models and using the output for answering specific questions can be found in the tools section. A google search of GitHub for any other/new Atlantis tools is a good idea too (e.g r4atlantis).
- Looking over other Atlantis applications might also be useful
- Lastly, if you want to contribute to the extension or modification of Atlantis just let us know - the more the merrier.
If you have any other questions about how people have tackled different parts of the task don’t forget to visit the google group and ask.