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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Oh and I add a fourth question to the three below: how could I convert the m/s values (the arrow size) into km/h?<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: mino-98@hotmail.it<br>To: gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>Subject: RE: [gradsusr] wind vectors<br>Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:50:39 +0200<br><br>

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<div dir="ltr">Thank you all very much! There are few other thing I would like to understand:<div>1)So I could skip either the U Component or the V component, it would be the same, wouldn't it?</div><div>E.g.&nbsp;'d skip(UGRD10m,5,5);VGRD10m' is the same as&nbsp;'d skip(VGRD10m,5,5);UGRD10m'?</div><div><br></div><div>2)What is exactly the skip function?</div><div><br></div><div>3)To use 'gxout shaded' I should use the same code or should I use a squareroot to extract the scalar value?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br><div>&gt; From: TAlHosary@ncms.ae<br>&gt; To: gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>&gt; Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:57:08 +0000<br>&gt; Subject: Re: [gradsusr] wind vectors<br>&gt; <br>&gt; Hi,<br>&gt; If the components of wind are u &amp; v<br>&gt; You can use the following commands and 6 is the distance between grid and you can change as you like<br>&gt; <br>&gt; 'set gxout vector'<br>&gt; 'd skip(u,6,6);v'<br>&gt; <br>&gt; or<br>&gt; 'set gxout barb'<br>&gt; 'd skip(u,6,6);v'<br>&gt; <br>&gt; Regards,<br>&gt; alhosari<br>&gt; <br>&gt; -----Original Message-----<br>&gt; From: gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org [mailto:gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org] On Behalf Of Chorley Weather<br>&gt; Sent: 17/ربيع&nbsp;الأول/2015 12:21 م<br>&gt; To: GrADS Users Forum<br>&gt; Subject: Re: [gradsusr] wind vectors<br>&gt; <br>&gt; On 15-08-2015 03:39, giacomo tricarico wrote:<br>&gt; &gt; Hi, how could I plot 10m wind vectors on grads 2.0.x?<br>&gt; &gt; I only have U and V components, respectively UGRD10m and VGRD10m.<br>&gt; &gt; <br>&gt; &gt; I've tried this:<br>&gt; &gt; 'd UGRD10m;skip(VGRD10m,5)'<br>&gt; &gt; but I don't know if it's correct.<br>&gt; &gt; <br>&gt; &gt; Thanks in advance,<br>&gt; &gt; Giacomo<br>&gt; &gt; <br>&gt; &gt; _______________________________________________<br>&gt; &gt; gradsusr mailing list<br>&gt; &gt; gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>&gt; &gt; http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br>&gt; Hi Giacomo,<br>&gt; <br>&gt; Try this bit of script and just adjust the value (2,2) to make it fit on your map projection. Hope this helps.<br>&gt; 'set gxout vector'<br>&gt; 'set ccolor 1'<br>&gt; 'd skip(ugrd10m,2,2);vgrd10m'<br>&gt; 'set cint 5'<br>&gt; 'set clab masked'<br>&gt; <br>&gt; Regards,<br>&gt; Stuart.<br>&gt; --<br>&gt; Chief Forecaster &amp; Owner<br>&gt; _______________________________________________<br>&gt; gradsusr mailing list<br>&gt; gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>&gt; http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br>&gt; <br>&gt; _______________________________________________<br>&gt; gradsusr mailing list<br>&gt; gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>&gt; http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></div>                                               </div></div>                                               </div></body>
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