For the Beginner
Welcome to SCENGEN Version 2.4!
Development:
SCENGEN, meaning SCENario GENerator, has been developed by the Climatic Research Unit over the period from 1994 to 2000. Version 1 of SCENGEN was released during 1995 and operated as a DOS application. During 1996, SCENGEN was re-designed and re-written as both a Windows and Unix application running under TCL/TK. SCENGEN 2.4 is compatible with the accompanying version of MAGICC (Version 2.4), also re-written to run under Windows and Unix. The other main differences between SCENGEN 1 and SCENGEN 2 are: the inclusion of nine new GCM climate change experiments; the addition of a feature to allow climate change patterns resulting from aerosol forcing to be handled; and the ability to save scenario images as eps files for importing into other Windows applications.
Funding:
SCENGEN has been funded through a number of sources since its initial development in 1994. These include:
- the US Department of Energy
- the US National Science Foundation
- the Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- the UK Department of the Environment
- DG-Research of the Commission of the European Community
- the United Nations Environment Programme
Help:
Throughout SCENGEN the user may call up Help Screens on the various options available. Click on the Help button and then make your selection from the entries listed. Other Help topics are highlighted in bold.
Warning:
SCENGEN is still under development and you may find that certain features do not always work smoothly, perhaps depending on what machine and Windows version you are using. We apologise for this, but can accept no liability for such under-performance. Neither do we accept liability for any errors in the data used by SCENGEN nor for any applications or interpretations of the climate change scenarios generated by SCENGEN. SCENGEN is not a commercial product; it is supplied to you under Licence and for a nominal handling charge only. Nevertheless, we welcome feedback from users of SCENGEN, either about how the software performs under different system configurations or about possible errors in the software or algorithms.
Licence:
SCENGEN can only be used under licence. All users must be registered with the Climatic Research Unit by completing a Licence Agreement. A copy of this Agreement will be found in the file 'licence.txt', 'licence.doc' or 'licence.pdf' in the root MAGICC directory after installation. Please print this file, read it, sign, copy and return to either: Dr Mike Hulme, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK, or Professor Tom Wigley, NCAR, P.O.Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307, USA.