[Wrf-users] RE: IDV and VAPOR

Wed Jun 4 01:43:17 MDT 2008

I have been using IDV from a couple of years
and I agree with the previous replies, that's to say,
IDV is really powerful, but it is also very "memory consuming".
In my opinion, a very interesting "added value" of IDV is
the opportunity to plot both models and observations, overlaying them.
Is it possible to do the same also with VAPOR? (So far I'm not using it...)
I take the opportunity of this e-mail also to ask an opinion to IDV users:
IDV can ingest directly the WRF netcdf output, but do you think it is
better to postprocess it with WRF-post anyhow?

Thanks a lot!
kind reagrds

guido pirovano

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   1. IDV and VAPOR (Mark Stoelinga)
   2. RE: IDV and VAPOR (Bridgham Christopher J TSgt 36 OSS/OSW)
   3. Re: IDV and VAPOR (Leigh Orf)
   4. Re: IDV and VAPOR (Josh M. Gelman)
   5. wind observation height (jagan TNAU)

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:40:15 -0700
From: "Mark Stoelinga" <stoeling at washington.edu>
Subject: [Wrf-users] IDV and VAPOR
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Cc: 'Alan Norton' <alan at ucar.edu>, 'Tom Baltzer'
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I'm curious about IDV and VAPOR, two relatively new visualization and
analysis packages from UCAR (IDV from Unidata, first released in 2004, and
VAPOR from NCAR/CISL, first released in 2006).  I admit I haven't tried
either of them, but from the web pages, they both look like great software
packages, with much effort poured into them.  I have seen a increasing
discussion on the users' email list about both of these packages recently.

My first question is from a policy perspective: Why is UCAR developing two
major visualization/analysis packages that, at first glance, seem to have
many of the same capabilities?

I'm also curious about WRF users' experiences with these two packages.  How
seamless are each of these packages with ingesting native WRF system data?
What are users' experiences with using these two packages for analyzing and
displaying WRF system data?  Has anyone used both, and has an opinion on
relative strenghts and weaknesses?

Mark

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From: wrf-news-bounces at ucar.edu [mailto:wrf-news-bounces at ucar.edu] On Behalf
Of Alan Norton
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 3:47 PM
To: wrf-news at ucar.edu
Subject: [Wrf-news] VAPOR 1.3 released

VAPOR 1.3 has been released (http://www.vapor.ucar.edu) with several new 
capabilities useful in visualizing WRF-ARW datasets.
Includes:
     Image based flow visualization:  You can see and animate the wind 
motion and direction in the probe, for interactive exploration of the 
wind field.
     Isosurfaces can be colored by mapping another variable onto the 
isosurface
     A new user preferences panel helps customize the app to individual 
users and platforms.

For more information, see the release notes at
http://www.vapor.ucar.edu/doc/release-notes/index.shtml
For questions or problems, contact: vapor at ucar.edu

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