February 09, 2010 08:05:58 PM MST
Welcome
VAPOR is the Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers. VAPOR provides an interactive 3D visualization environment that runs on most UNIX and Windows systems equipped with modern 3D graphics cards.
VAPOR overview ...
- A visual data discovery environment tailored towards the specialized needs of the astro and geosciences CFD community
- A desktop solution capable of handling terascale size data sets
- Advanced interactive 3D visualization tightly coupled with quantitative data analysis
- Support for multi-variate, time-varying data
- Close coupling with RSI's powerful interpretive data language, IDL.
- Support for 3D visualization of WRF-ARW datasets
VAPOR development is led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Scientific Computing Division in collaboration with U.C. Davis and Ohio State University. Support for VAPOR is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation (grants # 03-25934 and 09-06379) and through a TeraGrid GIG award.
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| VAPOR 1.5.0 georeferenced image example. |
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Current News
16 November 09
Version 1.5.2 of VAPOR is available for download. A number of critical bugs introduced in version 1.5.0 have been fixed. It is recommended that all 1.5.0 users upgrade to 1.5.2