VECTOR ‐ A Computer Program That Utilizes SURFER or GRAPHER to Plot a Vector Field

Abstract

VECTOR is a Fortran 77 program that enables SURFER or GRAPHER to rapidly convert a two‐dimensional field of vectors into graphical form. SURFER and GRAPHER are both DOS format commercial graphics packages. The resulting graphical output can be plotted on‐screen or as hardcopy. Vector arrows and the size of the plot can be either manually or automatically scaled. For input, VECTOR requires only four pieces of data for each point: the x and y coordinates of the point and the x and y components of the vector's magnitude. VECTOR is an interactive program with defaults and on‐screen menus to simplify use.

Using Surfer 8® to Interpret Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid Monitoring Data: A Case Study

“…Various editions of Surfer 8@ have been applied to modeling and evaluation of groundwater contamination and other environmental data (Konderla and Hawrysz, 1994;Otvos, Pazmandi, and Tuba, 2003;Shan and Stephens, 1994;Vigneresse, 1994;Woodard, Harris, and Breazeale, 1996). Also, reported applications have typically used Surfer 8@ as an interface with other software rather than as a stand-alone analytical tool (Lu and Amter, 1992;Marschallinger, 1991;Yan, Landry, and Tate, 1994). The authors' experience suggests that Surfer 8@ is widely used, but this use is not well documented, with only limited reference to its application to environmental data existing in the scientific literature.…”