User Interface

This version is a BETA RELEASE. The official version will be released at a later date.

This page highlights some key aspects of the VCDAT 2.0 user interface.

The VCDAT development team created VCDAT 2.0 as a JupyterLab extension so it makes use of all the generic features available via the JupyterLab interface, but adds additional functionality needed to perform VCDAT functions like selecting a subset of data from a NetCDF file and plotting that subset of data.

When you first launch JupyterLab for the first time, you will likely see several Python icons in the Launcher tab of the JupyterLab interface as shown below. Depending on how you launched the JupyterLab interface (on your own computer/network or via Cori, acme1 or crunchy) you may or may not see files in the lefthand pane. The screenshot from acme1 below does not show any files in the left panel.

To dive right in and open the VCDAT tools, ignore all the Python icons and items in the Launcher tab and click on the CDAT logo (a blue C) on the left side of your screen. This will open the VCDAT controls. If you want to plot some data right away, see the Access Data and Plot Data pages.

For more detailed information on the user interface, see the JupyterLab interface documentation.