The CSDMS Web Modeling Tool (WMT) is the web-based successor to the desktop CSDMS Modeling Tool (CMT). WMT allows users to build and run coupled surface dynamics models on a high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) from a web browser on a desktop, laptop or tablet computer.
This article gives a short tutorial on how to use WMT. For an overview of the buttonology of WMT, please see WMT Help.
Open WMT
In a web browser, go to
to open WMT.
Sign in
Sign in to WMT with an email and a password.
You have to be signed in to save and run models. If this is the first time you're signing in to WMT, you'll be prompted to repeat your password.
Select a driver for the model
To create a new model in WMT, you must start by selecting a component to act as the driver of the model.
In the Model panel, click the driver button and choose Hydrotrend from the list of components displayed.
This adds Hydrotrend as the driver of the model, as the Model panel now shows.
WMT has also given a generic Model title to the new model, based on the name of the driver component. We'll chose a more specific title when we save the model.
Get information on a model component
The Hydrotrend model component you just added now acts as a button. Clicking it displays a new menu with a set of actions that can be performed on the model component.
Let's choose to Get information on Hydrotrend. Selecting this menu item displays a pop-up window giving the component name, version, DOI, a brief summary of its functionality, the link to the component's help page at CSDMS, and the author of the component.
For detailed infomation, you can follow the link to the component help page on the CSDMS web site.
Edit a component parameter
When Hydrotrend was selected, its parameters were displayed in the Parameter panel. These are default values for the component. Change the Simulation run time parameter from 100 to 200 days by entering the value 200 in the parameter's value box. Note that you can use scientific notation: 200 could be entered as 2E2. Note the use of "E"; "e" won't work.
Save the model
Give the model a name.
Note that labels are selected: Hydrotrend and your email address. Make a new label that describes this model. (E.g., "tutorial")
Run the model
Standalone mode.
Check the status page.
Download the model output
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