Advanced User's Guide

For those wanting to take advantage of PEcAn's more advanced features and customizations, this section will provide in-depth information. Here are the topics covered in this section:

• PEcAn Workflow
  • Overview
  • Load Settings
  • Query Database
  • Meta Analysis
  • Write Configuration Files
  • Start Runs
  • Get Model Output
  • Ensemble Analysis
  • Sensitivity Analysis, Variance Decomposition
• Connection to a remote server
  • SSH to remote machines
  • public/private keypairs
  • machine authentication
  • ssh tunnels
  • Configuring PEcAn to execute remotely
  • config.php for PEcAn web interface
  • pecan.xml for PEcAn command line runs
  • Running PEcAn code for modules remotely
  • geo.bu.edu
• Remote Execution
• PEcAn Configuration
  • PEcAn folders
  • Database Access
  • BETY Database Configuration
  • Brown Dog Configuration
  • PFT Selection
  • Meta Analysis
  • Ensemble Runs
  • Sensitivity Runs
  • Model Setup
  • ED2 specific tags
  • Run Setup
• Upgrading PEcAn/VM
  • Version 1.3.5 to 1.3.6
  • Version 1.3.4 to 1.3.5
  • Version 1.3.3 to 1.3.4
  • install postgresql
  • set ability to trust instead of peer for all
  • create user
  • download database
  • Version 1.3.1 to Version 1.3.2
  • Updating PEcAn
  • Updating BETY
• ED2 Configuration
  • ED2IN configuration variables
  • ED Computation HPC
• SIPNET-configuration
• DART data assimilation
  • Running with current folders in PEcAn
  • Adjusting the workflow
  • Initial conditions file
  • Observations files
  • State variable vector in DART
• Updating BETY database
• Database-Synchronization
  • How does it work?
  • Fetch latest data
  • Sharing data
  • Tasks
• Troubleshooting PEcAn
  • cookies and pecan web pages
  • Warning:... No such file or directory
  • `Can't insert workflow : Incorrect integer value: ''
  • After creating a new PFT the tag for PFT not passed to config.xml in ED