[R] How to plot wind direction and strength field

[Jenny Barnes]

Hi Jim,

I would like to plot something like figure 2 on this webpage:
http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/storm_summaries/jan1997storms.php

My data is very large - covering the whole globe at 2.5deg resolution so 
longitude=144 girds, latitude=73 grids and time=32 years - hard to give 
you that data......Would it help to give you a couple of grid squares 
worth of data for one year?

Thanks,

Jenny

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Jim Lemon wrote:

> Jenny Barnes wrote:
>> Dear R-help community,
>> 
>> I have searched through the archives and not been able ot find any advice 
>> on how to plot a wind field with one arrow per grid square with the arrow 
>> pointing in the direction of the wind and it's size proportional to the 
>> wind strength.
>> 
>> I have the wind speed data in arrays of [lon,lat,uwind] and [lon,lat,vwind] 
>> so it is broken down into u and v components. How do I plot it though?!?!
>> 
>> Any suggestions very wecome indeed - I seem to have hit a brick wall.....
>
> Hi Jenny,
> Some time ago, there was a request for a direction field plot. I programmed a 
> basic function, but perhaps the person found another solution, for I never 
> heard any more of it. However, this is not too hard to do in R, even adding 
> the arrows to a geographical plot. Could you post some data and perhaps a 
> link to an example of what output you would like?
>
> Jim
>
>