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November 20, 2023

VAPOR in Nature

This month long-time VAPOR collaborator and advisor Pablo Mininni, University of Buenos Aires, published this exciting article on volcanic lightning in Nature. Mininni et al used VAPOR to visualize millions of simulated particles that can collide and generate static electricity, which may result in intense volcanic lightning. ...

November 17, 2023

SC23 Visualization Showcase and an HPCWire award

The ViSR team had a strong showing in the Visualization Showcase at SC23 this year, the premier conference for High Performance Computing. Two entries from ViSR were accepted into the event, Visualizing the Impact of the Asian Summer Monsoon on the Composition of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere, and Visualizing Megafires: How AI Can Be Used to Drive Wildfire Simulations with Better Predictive Skill. ...

July 28, 2023

VAPOR takes home Best Visualization award at PEARC23

Watch the visualization here Recent visualization work at NCAR’s Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) and Computational & Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) has been awarded the Best Overall Visualization award at this year’s PEARC23. ...

June 28, 2023

Project Pythia Cookbook Cook-Off

One year from when Project Pythia first introduced Cookbooks, NCAR hosted Project Pythia’s first “Cookbook Cook-Off” hackathon. Pythia Cookbooks provide example end-to-end geoscientific workflows and are an important tool towards reproducible science efforts. ...