VAPOR

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.13332956.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13332956)\n[![CircleCI](https://circleci.com/gh/NCAR/VAPOR.svg?style=svg)](https://circleci.com/gh/NCAR/VAPOR) \n\n## Vapor:\n\n**VAPOR** is the **V**isualization and **A**nalysis **P**latform for **O**cean, Atmosphere, and Solar **R**esearchers.  VAPOR provides an interactive 3D visualization environment that can also produce animations and still frame images.  VAPOR runs on most UNIX and Windows systems equipped with modern 3D graphics cards.\n\nThe VAPOR Data Collection (**VDC**) data model allows users progressively access the fidelity of their data, allowing for the visualization of terascale data sets on commodity hardware.  VAPOR can also directly import data formats including WRF, MOM, POP, ROMS, and some GRIB and NetCDF files.\n\nUsers can perform ad-hoc analysis with VAPOR\u0027s interactive Python interpreter; which allows for the creation, modification, and visualization of new variables based on input model data.\n\nVAPOR is a product of the **NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research\u0027s Computational and Information Systems Lab**. Support for VAPOR is provided by the U.S. **National Science Foundation** (grants # 03-25934 and 09-06379, ACI-14-40412), and by the **Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information**\n\nProject homepage and binary releases can be found at [https://www.vapor.ucar.edu/](https://www.vapor.ucar.edu/)\n\n## Citation\nIf VAPOR benefits your research, please kindly cite [this publication](https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/10/9/488):\n```\n@Article{atmos10090488,\nAUTHOR = {Li, Shaomeng and Jaroszynski, Stanislaw and Pearse, Scott and Orf, Leigh and Clyne, John},\nTITLE = {VAPOR: A Visualization Package Tailored to Analyze Simulation Data in Earth System Science},\nJOURNAL = {Atmosphere},\nVOLUME = {10},\nYEAR = {2019},\nNUMBER = {9},\nARTICLE-NUMBER = {488},\nURL = {https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/10/9/488},\nISSN = {2073-4433},\nABSTRACT = {Visualization is an e",
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