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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi, NCL-talk!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there a way to make the wind barbs in a given plot (specifically in the Skew T plot) thicker for easier visibility in a publication-sized image?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have tried the following, based on what I¡¯ve found online, but nothing seems to work:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> dataOpts@vcWindBarbLineThicknessF= 4.0
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> dataOpts@WindBarbLineThicknessF = 4.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have also attempted to muck with this bit of code in the skew t background:<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> gsOpts = True
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> gsOpts@gsLineColor = "Foreground"
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">gsOpts@gsLineThicknessF = 1.5</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> gsOpts@gsLineDashPattern = 0
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> gsOpts@gsMarkerIndex = 4 ; "hollow_circle"=> std pres<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> gsOpts@gsMarkerColor = "Foreground"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> gsOpts@gsMarkerIndex = 16 ; "circle_filled" -> Pibal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">gsOpts@gsMarkerSizeF = 0.007 ; 0.007 is default</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">gsOpts@gsMarkerThicknessF= 1.0 ; 1.0 is default</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">but the markers referred to are the circles along at P & h levels along the y-axis. The line referred to is the axis itself.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I can edit the thickness of every other line and marker I need, with the exception of the wind barb.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In some of the supplemental Fortran documentation ( <a href="http://www.ncarg.ucar.edu/supplements/wmap/index.html#HEADING1-139">
http://www.ncarg.ucar.edu//supplements/wmap/index.html#HEADING1-139</a> ) there is this from WMAP:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">¡°WBS specifies the size of the wind barb shaft; WBT specifies the length of a wind barb full tick mark; BLW specifies the line width scale factor to use in drawing wind barb lines.¡±<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Is there any way to access this functionality in NCL?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Attached are my script, an updated skewT background script, and the current image output.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kacie<o:p></o:p></p>
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