WRF ARW User's Guide - MMM - UCAR

5. Read the VAPOR Documentation
POST-PROCESSING
For a quick overview of capabilities of VAPOR with WRF data, see Getting started
with VAPOR and WRF,
http://www.vapor.ucar.edu/docs/usage/wrfstart/WRFGetStarted.pdf.
Several documents on the VAPOR website (http://www.vapor.ucar.edu) are provided
for visualization of WRF data. Additional resources are available in the VAPOR user
interface to help users quickly get the information they need, and showing how to
obtain the most useful visualizations:
-The Georgia Weather Case Study
(http://www.vapor.ucar.edu/docs/tutorial/georgia/GeorgiaCaseStudy.pdf)
provides a step-by-step tutorial, showing how to use most of the VAPOR features
that are useful in WRF visualization.
- Conversion of WRF data and creation of georeferenced images are discussed in
the VAPOR/WRF Data and Image Preparation Guide.
(http://www.vapor.ucar.edu/docs/usage/wrfprep/WRFsupport.pdf)
- "Using NCL with VAPOR to visualize WRF-ARW data"
(http://www.vapor.ucar.edu/docs/tutorial/wrfncl/VAPOR-WRF-NCL.pdf)
is a tutorial that shows how to create georeferenced images from NCL plots, and
to insert them in VAPOR scenes.
- Complete documentation of all capabilities of the VAPOR user interface is
provided in the VAPOR User Interface Reference Manual
(http://www.vapor.ucar.edu/docs/reference/UIRef/ReferenceManual.pdf).
- The VAPOR Users' Guide for WRF Typhoon Research
(http://www.vapor.ucar.edu/docs/tutorial/typhoon/Typhoon.pdf)
provides a tutorial for using VAPOR on typhoon data, including instructions for
preparing satellites images and NCL plots to display in the scene..
- To understand the meaning or function of an element in the VAPOR user
interface:
Tool tips: Place the cursor over a widget for a couple of seconds and a onesentence
description is provided.
Context-sensitive help: From the Help menu, click on “?Explain This”, and then
click with the left mouse button on a widget, to get a longer technical explanation
of the functionality.
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