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Welcome to the Acycle wiki! Check the very preliminary User's Guide at: ../code/doc/AC-User's Guide.pdf

ACYCLE a time-series analysis software for paleoclimate projects 
version 0.2.1

Mingsong Li, Penn State Sept. 2018

Installation [1. MatLab version]: Unzip the Acycle software to your root directory. Directory of the Acycle folder should NOT contain SPACE, non-English or non-numeric characters. No installation is needed.

Startup [1. MatLab version]: (1) Startup MatLab (2) Change the MatLab working directory to the acycle directory (3) Type ac in MatLab’s command window, then press the enter key.

Data requirement The input file of data series can be in a variety of formats, including table- or space-delimited text (.txt), and comma-separated values files (.csv) from an Excel-type spreadsheet. Data file must contain two columns of series. The first column must be in depth or time, and the second column should be value in the corresponding depth or time. The data can be saved in any directory and is recommended to save in Acycle “data” folder. All data files, plots, and folders are displayed in the GUI list box (Fig. 1).

Functions and GUI Acycle contains the following functions. File (Save AC.fig; Open *.fig File; Open Working Directory) Edit (New Folder; New Text File, Rename; Cut; Copy; Paste; Delete) Plot (Plot; Plot PLUS; Plot Standardized; Plot Swap Axis; Sampling Rate; Data Distribution) Basic Series (Insolation; Astronomical Solution; LR04 Stack; Sine Wave; White Noise; Red Noise) Math (Sorting & Unique; Select Parts; Merge Series; Add Gaps; Remove Parts; Remove Peaks; Interpolation; Smoothing; Standardize; Principal Component; Log-transform; First Difference; Simple Function) Time series (Prewhitening; Spectral Analysis; Evolutionary Spectral Analysis; Filtering; Build Age Model; Age Scale; Sedimentary Rate to Age Model; Power Decomposition Analysis; DYNOT; ρ1 method; Correlation Coefficient; Evolutionary Correlation Coefficient; Track Sedimentation Rates) Help (Read me; Manuals; Find Updates; Copyright; Contact)

Read more at /acycle/code/doc/AC-User's Guide.pdf