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VAPOR Documentation

Installation

Installing from source
Describes the installation process for building VAPOR from source code

Installing from binaries
Describes the installation process for installing VAPOR from pre-compiled binaries

VAPOR Release Notes
Important information regarding a particular release of VAPOR

Usage

Manual Pages

An Overview of VAPOR Data Collections
Presents VAPOR's model for data storage and provides information on converting data to this format.

VAPOR Quick Start Guide
A quick introduction to getting started with the VAPOR environment.

VAPOR User Interface Reference Manual
The reference guide to the VAPOR Graphical User Interface

VAPOR IDL Extension Reference Manual
The reference manual for all VAPOR provide IDL language extensions

VAPOR Spherical Data Instructions
Describes how to prepare data for use with VAPOR's prototype spherical grid volume renderer

Using VAPOR with WRF

Getting Started with VAPOR and WRF
A quick-start guide for using VAPOR with WRF model data

VAPOR Support for Converting and Visulizing WRF Data sets
Describes how to prepare and visualize netCDF data generated by the Weather Research Forecast (WRF) model for VAPOR

Visualization of WRF Data using VAPOR: A Georgia Weather Case Study

Using VAPOR at NCAR

Getting Started with VAPOR in the NCAR VisLab
Describes how to run VAPOR on NCAR VisLab systems. This service is only available to UCAR computing account holders.

 

 

White Papers, Publications and Posters

 

Publications

pdficon Clyne, J., Mininni, P., Norton, A., and Rast, M. A Prototype Discovery Environment for Analyzing and Visualizing Terascale Turbulent Fluid Flow Simulations, New Journal of Physics, 9, 301 (2007)
pdficon Clyne, J. and Rast, M. A prototype discovery environment for analyzing and visualizing terascale turbulent fluid flow simulations, in proceedings of Visualization and Data Analysis 2005, pp. 284-294 (2005)
pdficon Clyne, J. The Multiresolution Toolkit: Progressive Access for Regular Gridded Data, in proceedings of Visualization, Images, and Image Processing 2003, pp. 152-157 (2003)

 

Posters

pdficon Norton, P., Mininni, A., Clyne, J., and Pouquet, A. "Analysis and Visualization of Small-Scale Structures Occuring in High Resolution MHD Simulations ", AGU 2006

Reports

2006-07 Annual Report