The length of the arrows also corresponds to the horizontal speed. Points along the profile are used as seeds for the streamribbon integration. The visualization for the profile marked 2 can help illustrate the upper air characteristics of the predicted vortex shedding described earlier. This can be further illustrated in animation . Figure 5 shows another approach in which five different surface variables have been selected in a combined visualization.
Precipitable water is shown as pseudo-color.
Wind velocity is illustrated as streamlines, colored by speed, using the same technique as in Figure 3. Colored line contours of cloud top heights in increments of 1000 m are shown. Each of these planar representations are deformed vertically by mean sea level pressure to create a shaded surface. Finally, temperature values at discrete locations are also shown by value on the surface. One can see the distinctions between the leeward and windward sides of the islands in this representation, particularly for the large island of Hawaii.