Data Analysis Services Group - November 2013

News and Accomplishments

VAPOR Project

Project information is available at: http://www.vapor.ucar.edu

KISTI Award:
The end of the PoP for the Year Three KISTI award is approaching  (Dec. 15) and most of the team's efforts are focused on completing deliverables in the form of a 2.3.0 VAPOR release candidate. Development efforts were halted near the end of November. Regression testing and bug fixing are currently under way.

Scott continued work on the vdcwizard data translation GUI:

  • Modified wrf command line tools to be object oriented, enabling shared use between the command line tools and the VDCWizard.

  • Added WRF support

  • Added progress bar for VDC creation
  • Added cancel option for VDC creation
  • Fixed numerous bugs
  • Testing with a variety of data sets.
  • Added “Data Conversion with VDCWizard” page under “VAPOR Data Preparation” documentation website, and modified 12 other documentation pages to refer to it.

John wrote and submitted the Year Three final report to KISTI.

2.x Development:

Preparation for a 2.3.0 release candidate continues:

  • Support for the new vdcwizard GUI was added to the installers for Mac, Linux and Windows platforms.
  • A regression test plan was developed.
  • Numerous "severity 6" bugs were fixed.
  • Alan made numerous GUI usability improvements, most notably simplifying control of data refinement using a single parameter.

Scott worked on creating user defined annotations.  ~60% complete, but the effort was shelved to put focus on regression testing for 2.3.

Miles added version update capability to vaporgui.

John started researching GRIB data and the effort needed to support it inside of VAPOR. GRIB is the native output format of the ECMWF weather model, and the Korean GRIMS model.


3.x Development:

Scott created a mockup for a tab-based approach for laying out renderer preferences in vaporgui.  This consolidation results in less vertical scrolling for the user.

Alan completed a simplified working prototype of the re-factored vaporgui based on the 3.0 specifications. The effort is on hold until after the 2.3 release.

Administrative:

Education and Outreach:


John gave a CISL "Work in Progress" talk entitled: Intelligent data storage for structured grids.

John attended the ECMWF 14th annual workshop on Meteorological Operational Systems and gave an invited talk and a poster on using VAPOR for NWP data.

 

Professional growth:

Alan and Scott attended SC13 in Denver.

Web site:
Miles installed required security patches on the vapor web site.

Software Research Projects

Feature Tracking:

Climate data compression:

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Test Clusters

Storage Usage Statistics

NWSC+GLADE+Usage+Report

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