<div dir="ltr">I'm not quite sure how the name came to be, but I believe the wind barb line width is actually controlled by BLW, whose documentations states the following: "Sets the line width used for drawing wind barbs.". Easy to miss because all the other wind barb specific resources start with 'W'.<div><br></div><div>It's default value is 1.0, which suggests that like most NCL line width resources, it is actually a scaling factor, in which case 2.5 might be a reasonable value. </div><div><br></div><div>VCW sets the line width for 'vectors', which have arrow heads and usually vary in length depending on the magnitude.</div><div> -dave</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Rick Brownrigg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Ed,<br><br></div>I don't know for sure, but my reading of the WMAP docs indicates the correct parameter might be "WBS". And a value of 2.5 would be way too big. (.025 perhaps?). In any case, you might want to check out Ch. 9 of:<br><br><a href="http://www.ncarg.ucar.edu//supplements/wmap/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.ncarg.ucar.edu//supplements/wmap/index.html</a><br><br></div>Hope that helps...<br>Rick<br><br><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Yang Yang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yang123yang@yahoo.com" target="_blank">yang123yang@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span></span></div><div><br>Dear Sir/Madam:</div><div style="display:block"><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div> </div><div>I just resumed my ncl_talk membership. I sent the question below to ncl_talk but not sure if it really has been broadcasted by ncl_talk. Pardon me if you receive the question
twice.</div><span><div> </div><div>I used wmbarb to plot windbarbs. I want to increase the linewidth of the wind barbs and set <br> wmsetp("vcw", 2.5)<br> </div></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent">However, it does not work no matter what value I set for VCW. Can you please tell me how to do this right? Thanks!</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent"> </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent">Regards</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent">Ed<br></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><br><br></div></div><span class="">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Yang Yang <<a href="mailto:yang123yang@yahoo.com" target="_blank">yang123yang@yahoo.com</a>><br>To: "<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a>><br>Cc: <br>Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:58:30 -0700<br>Subject: how to set the linewidth for windbarbs<br></span><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span class=""><div>Dear Sir/Madam:</div><div> </div><div>I used wmbarb to plot windbarbs. I want to increase the linewidth of the wind barbs and set <br> wmsetp("vcw", 2.5)<br> </div></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent">However, it does not work. Can you please tell me how to do this right?</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent"> </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent">Regards</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent">Ed<br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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