Re: wind vectors on irregular grid

Hi Laura,
Vectors and streamlines on unstructured grids is a major item on our to-do list, but it is not currently available. The only way to visualize such data currently is to re-grid to a structured grid first.
 -dave

On Mar 28, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Laura Fowler wrote:

> Hi all:
> Is it possible to plot wind vectors on an irregular grid? The u and v
> components of the wind are one dimensional arrays instead of
> two-dimensional arrays as required by gsn_csm_vector_map, and the
> location on the grid for the u and v components are given by:
>
> res@sfXArray = ff->lonCell * r2d
> res@sfYArray = ff->latCell * r2d
>
> where lonCell and latCell are the longitudes and latitudes of the cell
> centers. I browsed through the archive, but did not find any topic on
> that subject (well there was one, but the reply did not work.)
>
> Thanks,
> Laura
>
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