VERDI Overview

Driven by the air quality modeling community's need for a replacement to PAVE, the U.S. EPA sponsored the development of VERDI. PAVE is a Unix-based software system written in C and Motif.  While the EPA is satisfied with the functionality of PAVE and desired to keep those capabilities, they recognize that the PAVE technology is outdated and wanted an updated, more efficient, flexible, and modular visualization software system. Argonne National Laboratory developed VERDI to duplicate the functionality of PAVE in a Java program.