• Did you ever want to create a greenhouse gas emissions pathway yourself?
• Have you been wondering how much emission reductions it takes up to 2050 to stabilize at 400 ppm CO2 concentrations, or limiting warming to 2°C?
• And did you ask yourself how big of an influence a different climate sensitivity assumption might have?
• Or what might happen to the climate if we wait another ten years before bringing emissions down significantly?

SiMCaP’s EQW-PATHFINDER might be the tool that you were looking for.

You are welcomed to test the SiMCaP module EQW-PATHFINDER beta1.0. We appreciate any feedback on the software to feedback@simcap.org. And please don't hesitate to send an email to our bug predator department at ifoundabug@simcap.org. Thank you.

System Requirements

a) Standalone version (no MATLAB license required):

• Windows 2000/XP
• 512 MB RAM or higher
• 300 MB free hard disk space
• 1.6GhZ Pentium, equivalent or higher

b) Source-code version (MATLAB 7.01 or higher required):

• Windows 2000/XP
• 512 MB RAM or higher
• 200 MB free hard disk space
• 1.6GhZ Pentium, equivalent or higher
• MATLAB 7.01 or higher, including a couple of toolboxes, such as the statistics, spline, optimization toolboxes (and possibly others).
  

Licence Agreement

This beta version of software is brought to you under a “Attribute; Non-commercial; Share Alike” license agreement, as specified under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/. By downloading or using the software you agree to these license terms. You are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works, under the following conditions:

1. Attribution. You must give the original authors credit. In this case cite the publication when using any derivatives of this program:
   Meinshausen, M., Hare, B., Wigley, T.M.L., van Vuuren, D., den Elzen, M.G.J. and Swart, R.: 2005, 'Multi-gas emission pathways to meet arbitrary climate targets', Climatic Change, pp.44., DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-9013-2.
2. Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. If you want to use this software or derivatives of it for commercial stuff contact us under: somemoneyinvolved@simcap.org
3. Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.
   

Installation Instructions, if you don't have MATLAB

Note: If you don’t have MATLAB, no problem. You will be able to use the graphical user interface of SiMCaP’s EQW-PATHFINDER and SiMCaP’s VIEWER.

1. You will need two files for the installation process: MCRinstaller.exe and simcapeqw.exe.
2. You first need to install the Matlab Component Runtime (MCRinstaller.exe) machine. Double click on MCRinstaller.exe. Follow the instructions on the screen.
3. Double click on simcapeqw.exe and unpack the archive to a folder of your choice, e.g. C:\simcapeqw\
4. Start SiMCaP by double clicking on simcap_eqw_start.exe, which is located in your SiMCaP folder, e.g. C:\simcapeqw\. Be patient: a black screen will appear for a minute or two during which another set of files is unpacked.
5. SiMCaP will now start. Future start-ups will be much quicker. Always start SiMCaP by double clicking on simcap_eqw_start.exe
   

Installation Instructions, if you do have MATLAB (7.01 or higher)

Note: If you have MATLAB 7.01 or higher you will be able to use both, the graphical user interface as well as the command line version of SiMCaP’s EQW-PATHFINDER.

1. You will need one file for the installation process: simcapeqw.exe.
2. Double click on simcapeqw.exe and unpack it to a folder of your choice, e.g. C:\simcapeqw\
3. Start your MATLAB program and set the working directory to your SiMCaP folder, e.g. C:\simcapeqw\
4. Start SiMCaP by calling the function simcap_eqw_start.m.