Garden with Insight v1.0 Help: Simulation options window: weather panel
In the simulation options window, the weather panel contains the
following items. Click on the Weather button at the bottom of the window to see the weather
panel.
Climate
The first items in the weather panel are two radio buttons labeled
Keep current weather and Choose new climate for weather. To change the climate that
is used to generate the weather, click the Choose new climate for weather radio button, then
click on the drop-down list box below the radio button, and choose a new climate from the list. To open the templates
window and import climates from an outside library, click the ellipse  button.
Weather controls
The group of drop-down list boxes on the weather panel controls how the daily weather variables are simulated. Normally, all daily weather variables
are simulated in a way that attempts to represent real weather, using randomly varying values based on the climate averages in the climate data.
However, you can change any or all of these variables to control the weather for your own experiments.
For each of the variables listed (temperature, precipitation, radiation, relative humidity, wind speed, and
wind direction), you can select from one of these four choices:
Simulated: Generated values will vary randomly around
climate long-term averages, simulating normal weather as closely as
the program can. This is the default choice.
Always (some number): Generated values will be constant at the value shown. This is especially
useful if you want to stop it from raining to control the water balance of the soil.
Smoothed: Generated values will exactly equal climate long-term averages, smoothed between
months to make a gradual curve, and without any daily random
variation. This option is useful if you want your gardening to be less affected by the vicissitudes of
variable weather, but still want something like normal temperatures for your area.
Unchanging: Generated values will be constant at whatever value the values held the last time
they were simulated. For example, if you change all the weather control choices to unchanging on the
warmest day in summer, it will stay exactly like that day until you change the controls again. This is
useful to create a greenhouse-like atmosphere.
The simulation options window with weather panel
See also:
How to change the climate
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