VAPOR – interactive 3D visualization environment

VAPOR (Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers) is an interactive 3D visualization environment for scientific data.

It is designed particularly for Earth system science and lets researchers explore large datasets, create animations and generate still frame images. Its VAPOR Data Collection data model provides progressive access to different levels of data fidelity, helping users visualize terascale datasets on commodity hardware.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Interactive 3D visualization of scientific data.
• Create animations and still frame images.
• Visualize terascale datasets on commodity hardware.
• Progressively access different levels of data fidelity using the VAPOR Data Collection data model.
• Directly import WRF, MOM, POP and ROMS data.
• Support for some GRIB and NetCDF files.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis using an interactive Python interpreter.
• Create, modify and visualize variables derived from input model data.
• Designed for ocean, atmospheric, solar and wider Earth system research.

Website: github.com/NCAR/VAPOR
Support:
Developer: NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
License: BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License

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