Felix Andrews: felix@nfrac.org.
You can download a version for Java 1.6 or download a version for Java 1.5. Both are 1.9 MB in size. To find out which one to use, type java -version in a terminal. On Windows: open Programs - Accessories - Command Prompt.
Unpack the zip file; no installation is necessary. The Java Runtime Environment version 1.5 or above is required. From windows double click on run.bat. From Unix / Linux systems, execute run.sh. This command will also work from MacOS X, but you need to run it from inside Terminal.
To open a project, select one of the directories that ends with .tambo ( SimpleExample.tambo or Murrindindi.tambo or Molonglo_Burbong.tambo ).
You can toggle which data series are visible by using the checkboxes listed at the top of the main screens. Checkboxes generally turn themselves on when needed.
Sliders control both the lower and upper bounds of the period displayed on plots. Alternatively, you can zoom in on individual plots using the mouse: drag a rectangle from top-left to bottom-right. Restore the full view by clicking the Unzoom button. The zoom scale affects the exported image but not the range of exported data. Plot images in PNG format can be exported by clicking Export Bitmap. Some more options for plot formatting are available from the submenu when right-clicking on a plot.
The underlying data of a plot can be saved to a CSV file. This could be used to calculate other performance statistics in a spreadsheet, for example.
Statistics in tables are updated when the data is updated. They can also be saved to CSV files.
Define new simulations by clicking the Set Experiment button. These could have an altered model, altered input data, or both. A descriptive name can be given to the experiment (make sure to press Enter after typing it in).
A project is just a directory containing the time series file (pqt.dat), plain-text configuration files and a picture.jpg. You can create a new one by copying and modifying an existing project.
A full implementation of the IHACRES model is also available in the hydromad package for R.
The hydrological model used in IHACRES-tambo is available as R code, and an R script for producing similar kind of results is available here: script.R
IHACRES-tambo uses the open-source graphing library JFreeChart. See http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/.