Project information is available at: http://www.vapor.ucar.edu
XD Vis Award:
Efforts to refactor code to ease extensibility and improve maintainability continued. A specialization of the NetCDFCollection class, developed last month, capable of reading NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Conventions data was written. The implementation is incomplete, but has sufficient capability to support MOM and ROMS ocean data. The extant MOM data translators were migrated to the new CF reader class and tested. Most of the deficiencies of the previous implementation have been addressed, and a much broader set of MOM outputs can now be processed.
KISTI Award:
Seunghoon Lee returned to KISTI after a two month visit. While at NCAR Seunghoon collaborated with VAPOR staff to visualize WRF weather data combined with ROMS regional ocean model data using VAPOR. This was a substantial effort due to a number of limitations in VAPOR (data from the two models was required to be synchronized in time, and resampled onto a single computational grid). Seughoon also spent much of his time learning about VAPOR, and analyzing data from various WRF and ROMS runs (Seunghoon is a weather researcher by training). The visit provided VAPOR staff with much feedback on how to improve VAPOR to better meet the needs of weather and ocean modelers.
Development:
Version 2.2.0 of VAPOR was released in early February, and over 500 copies of the software have been downloaded. The major focus of the 2.2.0 release was the addition of support for ocean model data. This work was funded in part by KISTI. Significant areas of work this month included:
John and Alan had several planning meetings to discuss CY2013 efforts, which will focus on improved usability, and further architectural refactoring aimed at improving maintainability and extensibility.
All of VAPOR test data sets and support project data was successfully migrated to the new glade.
Administrative:
A number of applicants for our Student Assistant position were interviewed, and a winning candidate was selected: Miles Rufat-Latre, a CS student at CU, will join the VAPOR team on March 18.
At the request of Scott Raider a one-page mini proposal was provided seeking NSF funds to improve VAPOR usability.
Education and Outreach:
Two abstracts for talks submitted by John and Alan were accepted by EGU for the April genera assembly meeting in Vienna.
Alan and Rick Brownrigg (in 2012) proposed a Siparcs project involving visualization of WRF data in Google Earth. This month three intern candidates applied for this position, we reviewed their applications and found two of them to be well-qualified.
Feature Tracking:
Climate data compression:
John provided Peter Ireland with new imagery to be used in an NSF funding proposal.