General Structure

The monitoring tool has a defined workflow: At the end of each leg, using EC-Earth output, it creates relevant diagnostics. These diagnostics are then visualized in an expressive manner. Both the selection of diagnostics as well as the desired visualization might vary between experiments and are thus configurable. The software consists of two different task types:

Processing tasks process input from the model output and the runtime environment. With this, they create diagnostics and save them in a file, the diagnostic on disk. The tool so far supports four types of diagnostics:

• scalar: zero-dimensional in time & space.
• time series: zero-dimensional in space, one-dimensional in time.
• map: two-dimensional in space, zero-dimensional in time.
• temporal map: two-dimensional in space, zero-dimensional in time.

Processing tasks and the resulting diagnostics on disk should be named according to the naming scheme described here: Naming Processing Tasks.

Presentation tasks read these saved diagnostics and visualize them. Then, they present all diagnostics at a presentation outlet.