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> Why is the pink parcel path often not shown on the sounding probe? > > When I drag the probe around it comes and goes in the display. > > For example I wish I had one in the top plot (a convective situation), > while it appears but makes no sense to be lifting parcels over Antarctica > (second plot). > > Is there a reason it disappears something like half the time/space on earth > it seems? > > Brian Brian, Which dataset were you creating those sounding images? The sounding image depends on more than 4 variables in volume and probably needs a lot of memory, did you see any memory peak when you moved the probe point? I tried on my local machine and GFS 1 degree data, not seeing this problem. Yuan > > > [cid:e93d973e-01c9-48d3-b72a-f23681dfb293@amazon.rsmas.miami.edu] > > [cid:fb5932d5-6f83-4597-a28f-db41e43b63e5@amazon.rsmas.miami.edu] > > > > Brian Mapes > address@hidden or address@hidden > > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: URS-983336 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed