Plotting a vertical wind profile (direction and intensity)
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Hi,
I am trying to plot a vertical wind profile from using quiver. For now I had little to no success and I could really use some help. Here is my problem:
I have wind comenents u and v at different heights z. For example:
u=[-3.3939, -3.3114,-3.0002,-3.569 ,-4.5501,-5.0276,-5.4330,-5.8136,-5.5932,-5.0989]
v=[0.7531, 0.9402, 1.4697, 1.1063, 1.1577, 0.7243, 0.4756, 0.3075, 0.5864, 0.6493];
z=[100,200,300,400,500,600,700,800,900,1000];
I would like to have a plot with at every height an arrow (or if it possible a wind barb but let's just stick with the arrow for now) with the direction of the arrow related to the wind speed and it direction to its wind direction. Since the quiver function wants as inputs x,y u and v I created a dummy x vector of ones.
x=[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1];
Then I try to plot using quiver as
quiver(x,z,u,v)
this -kind of work- but for the real case (more arrows) the visualization is not good. I tried to change the scale but with no better results.
Is there a smarter way that does not involve quiver to make the plot looks better, or what should I change in quiver properties?
thanks in advance
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