Project information is available at: http://www.vapor.ucar.edu
KISTI Award:
Scott's CAM data importing code was reviewed, and all reviewer comments were addressed. Scott is now working on a memory leak, and then hopefully checking in a final version of the code.
2.4 Development:
All five of Scott's FTGL action items from May 2014 were completed, listed as follows:
1) The need for an object oriented implementation of the draw functions.
2) A way to draw the text glyphs onto a solid black background.
3) A way to color the text and background according to user-input.
4) The ability to rotate and transpose the text within the scene.
5) The need to use a public domain .ttf font file.
Miles completed all development tasks for the GLFlow tube renderer:
Assorted debugging in glflow
Restructured glflow API
Full support for stride, arrowstride in glflow
Investigation of post-execution memory errors in glflow (still ongoing)
John put together a project plan for the 2.4 release
Miles also completed development of a new vaporgui splash screen.
3.0 Development:
Administrative:
John was on interview committees for a new Admin 1, and administrative assistant position.
Education and Outreach:
We presented a vapor/wrf mini-tutorial at the WRF 2014 Workshop. This went very well, with help from Scott, Miles, and Sunni. The attendees were quite enthusiastic
Mel Shapiro and Tom Galerneau are interested in a 1918 storm, “Bjerkes”, that was the subject of early weather modeling research. The question is whether the theoretical understanding agrees with modern simulation results. Tom ran a simulation, Alan has converted the data and performed some initial visualizations.
Scott presented Vapor’s capabilities in a science team meeting at the EOL to about 20 scientists from NCAR, NOAA, NASA, and other institutions. The pitch was to apply Vapor to their WRF-CHEM forecasts to better plan their flight trajectories. However it was expressed that Vapor would be a better candidate for post analysis given their already crowded daily routines.
Feature Tracking:
Climate data compression:
Scott combined Vapor’s Fortran code for writing raw data with Peter Sullivan’s model output reader. Two modifications were made. One was to write an entire 3D volume to a file (as opposed to the default of horizontal slices); and the other was modifying the code on our website to re-define the record length variable used to allocate output file size.
John and Shawn collaborated with Larry Frank (UCSD) on an NIH proposal, led by UCSC, and entitled:
Wavelet-based progressive Access and Retrieval Protocol for Data Representation and Integration in Visualization Environments (WARP-DRIVE)
John reviewed proposals for the NSF Big Data review panel.