Thanks for your suggestions, but neither of them work the way I want them to.  Skipping does make the barbs appear smaller relative to the background because there are fewer of them and more space between, but I want the same density of barbs, just smaller.<br>
<br>Jeff Duda<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Matt Alonso <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:matt.alonso@gmail.com">matt.alonso@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Jeff,<br><br>You want to use &#39;set arrscl&#39; to do this.<br><br><a href="http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsetarrscl.html" target="_blank">http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsetarrscl.html</a><br><br>Good luck<br>
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Huddleston, John <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Huddleston@cira.colostate.edu" target="_blank">Huddleston@cira.colostate.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">I am no expert; however, I did look back in the history and several folks have suggested using the skip function.</font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">One suggested a large number 40.</font></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 20, 2011 3:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> GrADS Users Forum<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [gradsusr] adjusting the sizes of barbs<br>
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<div>Hello,<br>
Is there a way to adjust the size of wind barbs plotted using gxout barb?<br>
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Jeff Duda<br>
Iowa State University<br>
Meteorology Graduate Student<br>
3134 Agronomy Hall<br>
<a href="http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/%7Ejdduda" target="_blank">www.meteor.iastate.edu/~jdduda</a><br>
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