MATLAB: Time series with quiver

quivertime series

Hello all
I'm trying to plot a time series of wind speed and direction using quiver but I can't figure it out. I thought it would be pretty logical but quiver requires (x,y) and I don't have that. My data is from the same wind station over a 40 year period. How would I go about plotting the data as a time series?

Best Answer

See if this does what you want:
N = 10;
wind_vel = rand(N, 1)*25;                           % Velocitoy Vector
wind_dir = randi(360, N, 1);                        % Direction Vector
wind_u = cos(wind_dir).*wind_vel;                   % Wind ‘x’ Direction
wind_v = sin(wind_dir).*wind_vel;                   % Wind ‘y’ Direction
wind_w = zeros(N, 1);                               % Wind ‘z’ Direction
x = zeros(N, 1);                                    % Station Remains Stationary 

y = zeros(N, 1);                                    % Station Remains Stationary 
t = linspace(0, 25, N)';                            % Time
figure(1)
quiver3(x, y, t, wind_u, wind_v, wind_w)
hold on
plot3(x, y, t, '-k', 'LineWidth',2)
hold off
grid on
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