VAPOR - Visualization and Analysis Platform

Example of VAPOR visualization software output
Click to enlarge. Visualization of hydrodynamic turbulent flow around a vortex tube. Flow seeded by rake shown in scene. Data courtesty of Pablo Mininni, Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.
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. The newest release (version 1.2.2) provides support for visualization of WRF data sets.

For more information, downloads and an image gallery of visualizations, see the VAPOR website.


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