License and Citation¶
License¶
PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT (“LICENSE”) CAREFULLY BEFORE DOWNLOADING THE SOFTWARE. BY DOWNLOADING THE SOFTWARE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO DOWNLOAD THIS SOFTWARE.
Vapor 3 is released under the permissive Apache v2.0 license.
Third Party Software¶
Vapor 3 makes use of the third party software listed below. In addition to the license above, users agree to the licenses outlined by the following libraries, frameworks, and source files:
| Library/Framework | License |
| GLEW | Custom |
| IrrXML | Custom |
| OpenImageDenoise | Apache v2.0 |
| assimp | Custom |
| embree | Apache v2.0 |
| Freetype | Custom |
| geotiff | Custom |
| glfw3 | Custom |
| h5bzip2 | Custom |
| hdf5 | Custom |
| jpeg | Custom |
| Microsoft Redistributable dll’s | Custom |
| netCDF | Custom |
| NSIS | CPL v1 |
| ospray | Apache v2.0 |
| png | Custom |
| proj | Custom |
| python | python |
| Qt | LGPL v3 |
| sqlite3 | Public Domain |
| SZIP (szlib) | HDF License |
| TBB (threading) | Apache v2.0 |
| tiff | Custom |
| udunits | Custom |
| Source code | |
| patchelf | Custom |
| nanoflann.hpp | Custom |
| SWT (wavelets) | GPL v2.1 |
| Trackball.cpp | LGPL v2 |
| geodesic.h | MIT |
| geo_ctrans.h | MIT |
| GetGitRevisionDescription.cmake | Boost V1 |
Citation¶
VAPOR is developed as an Open Source application by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. Continued support for VAPOR is dependent on demonstrable evidence of the software’s value to the scientific community. You are free to use VAPOR as permitted under the terms and conditions of the license. We kindly request, however, that you cite VAPOR in your publications and presentations. We suggest the following citations as appropriate:
For journal articles, proceedings, etc., we request:
Li, Shaomeng; Jaroszynski, Stanislaw; Pearse, Scott; Orf, Leigh; Clyne, John. 2019. “VAPOR: A Visualization Package Tailored to Analyze Simulation Data in Earth System Science.” Atmosphere 10, no. 9: 488.
@Article{atmos10090488,
AUTHOR = {Li, Shaomeng and Jaroszynski, Stanislaw and Pearse, Scott and Orf, Leigh and Clyne, John},
TITLE = {VAPOR: A Visualization Package Tailored to Analyze Simulation Data in Earth System Science},
JOURNAL = {Atmosphere},
VOLUME = {10},
YEAR = {2019},
NUMBER = {9},
ARTICLE-NUMBER = {488},
URL = {https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/10/9/488},
ISSN = {2073-4433},
DOI = {10.3390/atmos10090488}
}
For presentations, posters, etc., we suggest:
Imagery produced by VAPOR (www.vapor.ucar.edu), a product of the Computational Information Systems Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research
or simply the URL when space does not permit otherwise:
www.vapor.ucar.edu