Welcome to the Mission Support System software for planning atmospheric research flights. This document is intended to point you into the right direction in order to get the software working on your computer.

• For Windows, go here
  • Right click on the webpage and select "Save as..." to download the file
  • Double click the downloaded file and follow further instructions
    • For fully automatic installation, open cmd and execute it with /Path/To/Windows.bat -a
• For Linux/Mac, go here
  • Right click on the webpage and select "Save as..." to download the file
  • Make it executable via chmod +x LinuxMac.sh
  • Execute it and follow further instructions ./LinuxMac.sh
    • For fully automatic installation, run it with the -a parameter ./LinuxMac.sh -a

As Beginner start with an installation of Miniforge Get miniforge for your Operation System

You must install mss into a new environment to ensure the most recent versions for dependencies (On the Anaconda Prompt on Windows, you have to leave out the 'source' here and below).

  $ mamba create -n mssenv
  $ mamba activate mssenv
  (mssenv) $ mamba install mss python

For updating an existing MSS installation to the current version, it is best to install it into a new environment. If an existing environment shall be updated, it is important to update all packages in this environment.

  $ mamba activate mssenv
  (mssenv) $ msui --update

It is possible to list all versions of mss available on your platform with:

    $ mamba search mss --channel conda-forge

For a simple test you can setup a demodata wms server and start a msolab server with default settings

  (mssenv) $ mswms_demodata --seed
  (mssenv) $ export PYTHONPATH=~/mss
  (mssenv) $ mswms &
  (mssenv) $ mscolab start &
  (mssenv) $ msui

Please read the reference documentation

Bauer, R., Grooß, J.-U., Ungermann, J., Bär, M., Geldenhuys, M., and Hoffmann, L.: The Mission Support System (MSS v7.0.4) and its use in planning for the SouthTRAC aircraft campaign, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 8983–8997, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-8983-2022, 2022.

Rautenhaus, M., Bauer, G., and Doernbrack, A.: A web service based tool to plan atmospheric research flights, Geosci. Model Dev., 5, 55-71, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-5-55-2012, 2012.

and the paper's Supplement (which includes a tutorial) before using the application. The documents are available at:

• http://www.geosci-model-dev.net/5/55/2012/gmd-5-55-2012.pdf
• http://www.geosci-model-dev.net/5/55/2012/gmd-5-55-2012-supplement.pdf

For copyright information, please see the files NOTICE and LICENSE, located in the same directory as this README file.

When using this software, please be so kind and acknowledge its use by citing the above mentioned reference documentation in publications, presentations, reports, etc. that you create. Thank you very much.