[IDV #IDE-963744]: Trouble overlaying wind vectors on wind speed color shaded plan view

Stephanie,

There is some nuanced reasoning here. The vectors are in the horizontal plane
*only*. They have no z component and do not follow the slopes of the isosurface
of the color filled contours. So some vectors point into the color-filled
contours depending on what is happening with the sigma levels of the other
layer.  Does that make sense?

Best,

Unidata IDV Support

> Hi Yuan,
> 
> I tried your advice but it didn't seem to work.  I still have a situation
> where some of the wind vectors are not visible while others are. It doesn't
> seem to make any sense!  Any other ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > > Full Name: Stephanie Phelps
> > > Email Address: address@hidden
> > > Organization: University of Virginia
> > > Package Version:
> > > Operating System: Mac
> > > Hardware:
> > > Description of problem: Hello,
> > >
> > > I want to make two identical figures for 1) 10 m level and 2) my 0.993
> > sigma level using WRF output.
> > >
> > > I want to overlay the wind vectors on wind speed.  I can successfully do
> > this using the 2d derived 10m wind speed and vector variables (shown in
> > 0z_10m attachment).
> > >
> > > When I try to make an identical plot for the 0.993 level using the 3d
> > grid derived wind speed and vector variables it doesn't work.  The problem
> > is that when I select the wind speed and vectors to be 'on' in the plot,
> > for some reason about half the wind vectors disappear.  When I turn the
> > wind speed 'off' in the plot, all of the wind vectors appear to be there.
> > It seems like for some reason the wind speed layer is covering up some wind
> > vectors and I can't figure out why.  What it seems like I should do is
> > somehow 'bring to the top' the layer that contains the wind vectors so they
> > are overlaid and not somehow becoming covered up by the shaded wind speed
> > layer.  I have tried a couple of different layers and this is happening
> > with all of them.  I also played around with the transparency of the wind
> > speed layer and that makes the 'missing' vectors somewhat visible, but they
> > seem to be a different color compared to the other vectors?  Not sure why.
> > Has anyone else ever had thi
> >  s issue?  Thanks in advance for the help!
> > >
> > >
> > Stephanie,
> >         Use "Bring to the front" is the correct approach. Normally, you
> > create the display of color filled or color shaded plan view first, and then
> > the vector display, the later will be on the top. Sometime, you will have
> > to use the bring to the front feature to get what you wanted since
> > the IDV is 3D application and the rendering order might be the issue here.
> >
> > Yuan
> >
> >
> > Ticket Details
> > ===================
> > Ticket ID: IDE-963744
> > Department: Support IDV
> > Priority: Normal
> > Status: Closed
> >
> >
> 
> 


Ticket Details
===================
Ticket ID: IDE-963744
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed