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VAPOR
Description
VAPOR is the Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmposphere, and Solar Researchers: a desktop platform for exploring geosciences CFD data sets.

Obtaining an account
Before using VAPOR on a Lab resource you need to have a DASG user account and have HPRGS installed on your workstation for remote rendering. Information on obtaining an account may be found in the Quick Start Guide. Information on running HPRGS may be found in the HPRGS Quick Start Guide

Running VAPOR
VAPOR is installed on the Lab's storm cluster, storm{0,1,2,3,4,5}.scd.ucar.edu, and is run from the convenience of your office, via the HPRGS remote rendering service.

  1. Log on to one of the storm cluster's using the HPRGS remote console.

  2. Source the vapor setup file:

source /fs/local/bin/vapor-setup.csh # for c-shell users

or

. /fs/local/bin/vapor-setup.sh # for bourne shellusers

  1. Invoke the vapor gui:

vaporgui

VAPOR IDL example scripts may be found in the directory ${VAPOR_HOME}/share/examples/idl.

Complete documenation on VAPOR may be found on the VAPOR web site: http://www.vapor.ucar.edu.