Changes between Version 14 and Version 15 of doc/app/vapor

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Feb 28, 2013 10:33:34 AM (12 years ago)

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maronga

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doc/app/vapor

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 VAPOR has its own mechanism for storing field data and its associated attributes (metadata). The components of a VAPOR Data Collection (VDC) are distributed across different disk files. All metadata for a VDC are stored in a single .vdf file. See [[http://www.vapor.ucar.edu/docs/vapor-data-preparation/vapor-data-preparation|here]] for more information.\\
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-For the conversion of NetCDF data output from PALM to the VAPOR format, the tool nc2vdf has been developed at IMUK. It is based on NCL and available from r1046. In order to use the tool on any remote host, the PALM utility programs must be recompiled ({{{mbuild -u -h ...}}}). nc2vdf collects a list of parameters and uses the command line tools vdfcreate and ncdf2vdf, that come with VAPOR, to create the metadata file and populate the data collection automatically with all variables and time steps chosen by the user.\\
+For the conversion of NetCDF data output from PALM to the VAPOR format, the tool nc2vdf has been developed at IMUK. It is based on NCL and available from r1046. In order to use the tool on any remote host, the PALM utility programs must be recompiled ({{{mbuild -u -h ...}}}). In case you want to use nc2vdf on other systems than HLRN/IMUK, you need to adapt the script to your machine (it is placed in {{{../current_version/trunk/SCRIPTS}}}. There are some hints within the script how to achieve this. nc2vdf collects a list of parameters and uses the command line tools vdfcreate and ncdf2vdf, that come with VAPOR, to create the metadata file and populate the data collection automatically with all variables and time steps chosen by the user.\\
 The tool can be used in two ways, an interactive command line prompt asking for all necessary information and a non interactive mode reading all input parameters from a configuration file. The non interactive mode may be preferred for converting large data sets and can be used as a batch job at HLRN (so far only hicegate2 and bicegate2 are allowed). For large batch jobs that would exceed the wallclock time limit of the shell, you might want to submit a batch job (currently only possible on the UV systems).\\
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