Citation and License

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 de pendent 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 S, Jaroszynski S, Pearse S, Orf L, Clyne J. VAPOR: A Visualization Package Tailored to Analyze Simulation Data in Earth System Science. Atmosphere. 2019; 10(9):488. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10090488

• Visualization & Analysis Systems Technologies. (2023) Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers (VAPOR version 3.9.3) [Software]. Boulder, CO: UCAR/NCAR - Computational and Information System Lab. doi:10.5281/zenodo.13332956

Link to zenodo DOI:

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

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