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> Why is the pink parcel path often not shown on the sounding probe?
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> When I drag the probe around it comes and goes in the display.
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> 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).
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> Is there a reason it disappears something like half the time/space on earth
> it seems?
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> 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
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> [cid:fb5932d5-6f83-4597-a28f-db41e43b63e5@amazon.rsmas.miami.edu]
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> Brian Mapes
> address@hidden or address@hidden
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: URS-983336
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed