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PAVE User's Guide - Version 2.3
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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction and where to obtain software
  2. Installation instructions
  3. Types of plots produced by PAVE
  4. Getting your data into PAVE
  5. Using formulas
  6. Spatial and temporal data subsetting
  7. Navigating through PAVE's menu items
  8. Configuring plots
  9. Printing and exporting images, animations, and data
  10. Driving PAVE using scripts
  11. Optional Environment Variables
  12. Requirements for use
  13. Quick PAVE Jumpstart
  14. Known bugs and workarounds
  15. Run time errors
  16. History of new features
  17. PAVE FAQ
  18. Future PAVE Development

1. Introduction and where to obtain software

This document describes how to use the Package for Analysis and Visualization of Environmental data (PAVE). PAVE is a flexible and distributed application to visualize multivariate gridded environmental datasets. Features include (1) baseline graphics with the option to export data to high-end commercial packages, (2) access and manipulation of datasets located on remote machines, (3) support for multiple simultaneous visualizations, (4) an architecture that allows PAVE to be controlled by external processes, (5) low computational overhead, and (6) no software distribution cost.

PAVE version 2.3 was released on October 18, 2004. See New Features in PAVE 2.3.0 for more information on the improvements made in this version. The last public release of PAVE was version 2.2 in June, 2004. For information on the improvements in version 2.2, please see New Features in PAVE 2.2.0 . Binary executables for the latest version of PAVE are available for IRIX 6.5 (SGI), Solaris 2.7 (Sun), Linux 2, and Windows 2000/XP (on PCs with Microsoft SFU (Services for Unix) and an X11 server such as Exceed or Cygwin/X with Lesstif installed). Operating system versions later than the ones specified should also work in most cases. Older versions of PAVE are available for HP-UX, AIX, and OSF1. PAVE can be recompiled for later versions of these operating systems by installing the libraries from older versions and then compiling the latest source code from the PAVE source code distribution. For information on obtaining and using PAVE, see the on-line PAVE Resources listed below.

PAVE is a product of the Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development at the University of North Carolina.

We hope you enjoy your PAVE visualizing experience!

On-line PAVE Resources
Download PAVE
PAVE FAQs
PAVE User's manual as a single HTML page
Page for submitting bug reports, suggestions, and questions
Getting started with PAVE

2. Installation instructions

To install Version 2.3 of PAVE, expand the tar or zip file into a directory, then type "pave" to run the PAVE script within that directory. If you put the directory containing the PAVE script in your path, the program will run if you type "pave" from any location on your system. On Linux systems, if PAVE doesn't run by just typing "pave" try "sh pave".

3. Types of plots produced by PAVE

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From left to right, these are examples of a smoothed tile plot, a 3D mesh plot, a time series line plot, and a time series bar plot.

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From left to right, these are examples of a tile plot of a vertical cross section, a wind vector plot, and a scatter plot.

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