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VAPOR

The home of the software is https://www.vapor.ucar.edu :

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titleWhat is VAPOR?

VAPOR stands for Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers. It

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is a software system providing an interactive 3D visualization environment that runs on most UNIX ,Windows and Mac systems equipped with modern 3D graphics cards. The home of the software is https://www.vapor.ucar.edu :

How to use VAPOR from within Metview?

VAPOR is designed to handle WRF output files. To It has an internal data model that  data pTo handle ECMWF GRIB output a conversion is required. Metview

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VAPOR data files

VAPOR input data is described by .vdf (VAPOR data Format) files. These are XML files containing the name and dimension all the variables and the path of the actual data files storing the data values.  VAPOR stores its actual data values in .vdc (VAPOR Data Collection) files. These are NetCDF files containing wavelet compressed 3D data. There is a separate file for each variable and timestep organized into a folder hierarchy.

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