Getting Started#
Getting Started
A short orientation to CryoStack: what it is, which application fits your work, and where to go next. It does not replace any application's own setup instructions — it routes you to them.
One platform, several scientific applications.
CryoStack is the shared platform underneath CryoStack's scientific applications: identity, per-user workspaces, experiment records, and execution/result contracts that those applications reuse rather than each rebuilding. It is not itself a scientific application, and it does not impose one interface on every application built on it.
Pick by scientific task, not by platform.
CryoLauncher
Configure and run ISSM or Icepack ice-sheet models. Basic, Advanced, and Auto-config · Beta configuration experiences over the same run configuration; Remote and Cloud execution.
ICESEE
Ensemble-based state and parameter estimation for ice-sheet models. Organized as Local, Remote, or Cloud execution, with Auto-config · Beta available alongside it — a different interface shape from CryoLauncher's, by design.
Frozen Legacies
Discover and work with historical Antarctic radar observations and derived products through a manifest-driven catalog. Not organized around Local/Remote/Cloud execution.
LIVIST
Explore Antarctic englacial-temperature products inferred from radar and constrained by boreholes. Its own frontend and documentation, sharing CryoStack's deployment registry.
After setup: the User Manual.
Once you have an application open and a first example running, the User Manual is the operational reference for execution, results, and troubleshooting — how to configure a run, choose Local/Remote/Cloud where each is available, submit and monitor it, then retrieve and visualize results. Building or extending CryoStack itself is covered separately in the Developer Guide.