Welcome to the VAPOR home page. VAPOR is the Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers..

VAPOR provides ...

• A visual data discovery environment tailored towards the specialized needs of the 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.

VAPOR runs on most UNIX and Windows systems equipped with modern 3D graphics cards.

VAPOR 1.2.2 Released - 1/15/08 Version 1.2.2 of VAPOR is available for download. The newest release provides support for visualization of WRF data sets. See the WRF Quick Start guide for more information.
Physical Review Letters - 11/30/07 The image at right shows the cover of the November issume of Physical Review Letters. The cover image and feature article were produced by Yannick Ponty, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France
VAPOR 1.2 Released - 10/26/07 Version 1.2 of VAPOR is now available for download. This is a major new release of the software with lots of new capability.

The 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 via an NSF Information Technology Research grant.