[ferret_users] Plotting Satellite Wind Vectors

[Steve Guimond <guimond@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Ferreters:
   I have been trying to plot QuikSCAT wind vectors from a file of
lat,lon,u,v.  They are of 
course on an irregular grid and thus I have been trying to use the
plot_vectors.jnl script.  
However, when I plot my vectors I seem to be unable to alter the
"thickness" of the plot 
and skip every 10th vector.  In addition, the length of the vectors are
much too large and I 
am unaware of how to alter their size.  As you can see from the attached
image, the 
vectors are very messy and oriented wrong.  I used:

yes? go plot_vectors u v lon lat 10 fill

  Has anyone had success with plotting irregular satellite winds with
FERRET?  I am aware 
of a script or two associated with the FAST deposit, but wondered if
anyone has had luck 
with these scripts.

Thanks for any responses,
Steve
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Stephen R. Guimond
Graduate Research Assistant
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies 
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