NAME

       psvelo - Plot velocity vectors, crosses, and wedges on maps


SYNOPSIS

       psvelo  files  -Jparameters  -Rwest/east/south/north  [  -Btickinfo ] [
       -Dsigma_scale ] [ -Fred/green/blue ] [ -Ered/green/blue ] [ -Gfill ]  [
       -H ] [ -K ] [ -L ] [ -N ] [ -O ] [ -P ] [ -Ssymbol/scale/conf/font_size
       ] [ -U[/dx/dy/][label] ] [ -V ] [ -Wpen ] [ -Xx-shift ] [ -Yy-shift ] [
       -: ] [ -ccopies ]


DESCRIPTION

       psvelo  reads  data values from files [or standard input] and generates
       PostScript code that will plot velocity arrows on a map.  Most  options
       are  the  same as for psxy, except -S The PostScript code is written to
       standard output. The previous version (psvelomeca) is now obsolete.  It
       has been replaced by psvelo and psmeca.



ARGUMENTS

       files  List  one or more file-names. If no files are given, psvelo will
       read standard input.

       -J     Selects the map projection. Scale is  UNIT/degree,  1:xxxxx,  or
              width  in  UNIT  (upper case modifier).  UNIT is cm, inch, or m,
              depending on the MEASURE_UNIT setting in .gmtdefaults, but  this
              can  be overridden on the command line by appending the c, i, or
              m to the scale/width value.

              CYLINDRICAL PROJECTIONS:

              -Jclon0/lat0/scale (Cassini)
              -Jjlon0/scale (Miller)
              -Jmscale (Mercator - Greenwich and Equator as origin)
              -Jmlon0/lat0/scale (Mercator - Give meridian and standard paral-
              lel)
              -Joalon0/lat0/azimuth/scale   (Oblique   Mercator  -  point  and
              azimuth)
              -Joblon0/lat0/lon1/lat1/scale (Oblique Mercator - two points)
              -Joclon0/lat0/lonp/latp/scale  (Oblique  Mercator  -  point  and
              pole)
              -Jqlon0/scale  (Equidistant  Cylindrical  Projection (Plate Car-
              ree))
              -Jtlon0/scale (TM - Transverse Mercator, with Equator as y = 0)
              -Jtlon0/lat0/scale (TM - Transverse Mercator, set origin)
              -Juzone/scale (UTM - Universal Transverse Mercator)
              -Jylon0/lats/scale (Basic Cylindrical Projection)

              AZIMUTHAL PROJECTIONS:

              -Jalon0/lat0/scale (Lambert).
              -Jelon0/lat0/scale (Equidistant).
              -Jflon0/lat0/horizon/scale (Gnomonic).
              -Jglon0/lat0/scale (Orthographic).
              -Jslon0/lat0/[slat/]scale (General Stereographic)

              CONIC PROJECTIONS:

              -Jblon0/lat0/lat1/lat2/scale (Albers)
              -Jdlon0/lat0/lat1/lat2/scale (Equidistant)
              -Jllon0/lat0/lat1/lat2/scale (Lambert)

              MISCELLANEOUS PROJECTIONS:

              -Jhlon0/scale (Hammer)
              -Jilon0/scale (Sinusoidal)
              -Jk[f|s]lon0/scale (Eckert IV (f) and VI (s))
              -Jnlon0/scale (Robinson)
              -Jrlon0/scale (Winkel Tripel)
              -Jvlon0/scale (Van der Grinten)
              -Jwlon0/scale (Mollweide)

              NON-GEOGRAPHICAL PROJECTIONS:

              -Jp[a]scale[/origin] (polar (theta,r)  coordinates,  optional  a
              for azimuths and offset theta [0])
              -Jxx-scale[l|ppow][/y-scale[l|ppow]]  (Linear,  log,  and  power
              scaling)
              More details can be found in the psbasemap manpages.

       -R     west, east, south, and north specify the Region of interest.  To
              specify boundaries in degrees and minutes [and seconds], use the
              dd:mm[:ss] format. Append r if lower left and  upper  right  map
              coordinates are given instead of wesn.  -SSelects the meaning of
              the columns in the data file and the figure to be plotted.


       -Sevelscale/confidence/fontsize.  Velocity ellipses in
              (N,E) convention.  Vscale  sets  the  scaling  of  the  velocity
              arrows.   This  scaling  gives  inches  (unless c, i, m, or p is
              appended).
                Confidence sets the 2-dimensional  confidence  limit  for  the
              ellipse,  e.g.,  0.95  for 95% confidence ellipse. Fontsize sets
              the size of the text in points. The ellipse will be filled  with
              the color or shade specified by the -G option [default transpar-
              ent]. The arrow and the circumference of  the  ellipse  will  be
              drawn  with  the  pen  attributes  specified  by  the -W option.
              Parameters are expected to be in the following columns:

       1,2    longitude, latitude of station (-: option interchanges order)

       3,4    eastward, northward velocity (-: option interchanges order)

       5,6    uncertainty of  eastward,  northward  velocities  (1-sigma)  (-:
              option interchanges order)

       7      correlation between eastward and northward components

       8      name  of  station  (optional).  The bug which previously wrote a
              garbage string if this argument was omitted has been fixed.


       -Snbarscale.
              Anisotropy bars. Barscale sets the  scaling  of  the  bars  This
              scaling gives inches (unless c, i, m, or p is appended).  Param-
              eters are expected to be in the following columns:

       1,2    longitude, latitude of station (-: option interchanges order)

       3,4    eastward, northward components of anisotropy vector  (-:  option
              interchanges order)


       -Srvelscale/confidence/fontsize.  Velocity ellipses in
              rotated  convention.  Vscale  sets  the  scaling of the velocity
              arrows. This scaling gives inches (unless  c,  i,  m,  or  p  is
              appended).
               Confidence  sets  the  2-dimensional  confidence  limit for the
              ellipse, e.g., 0.95 for 95% confidence  ellipse.  Fontsize  sets
              the size of the text in points.  The ellipse will be filled with
              the color or shade specified by the -G option [default transpar-
              ent].  The  arrow  and  the circumference of the ellipse will be
              drawn with the  pen  attributes  specified  by  the  -W  option.
              Parameters are expected to be in the following columns:

       1,2    longitude, latitude, of station (-: option interchanges order)

       3,4    eastward, northward velocity (-: option interchanges order)

       5,6    semi-major, semi-minor axes

       7      counter-clockwise  angle,  in  degrees,  from horizontal axis to
              major axis of ellipse.

       8      name of station (optional)


       -Swwedge_scale/wedge_mag. Rotational wedges.
              Wedge_scale sets the size of the wedges in inches (unless c,  i,
              m,  or p is appended). Values are multiplied by Wedge_mag before
              plotting. For example, setting Wedge_mag to 1.e7 works well  for
              rotations  of the order of 100 nanoradians/yr. Use -G to set the
              fill color or shade for the wedge, and -E to set  the  color  or
              shade for the uncertainty.  Parameters are expected to be in the
              following columns:

       1,2    longitude, latitude, of station (-: option interchanges order)

       3      rotation in radians

       4      rotation uncertainty in radians


       -Sxcross_scale  Strain crosses. Cross_scale sets the
              size of the cross in inches (unless c, i, m, or p is  appended).
              Parameters are expected to be in the following columns:

       1,2    longitude, latitude, of station (-: option interchanges order)

       3      eps1,  the  most  extensional  eigenvalue of strain tensor, with
              extension taken positive.

       4      eps2, the most compressional eigenvalue of strain  tensor,  with
              extension taken positive.

       5      azimuth of eps2 in degrees CW from North.



OPTIONS

       No space between the option flag and the associated arguments.

       -A     Arrow_width/Head_length/Head_width  Size  of  arrow  in  inches.
              [Default is 0.03/0.12/0.09].

       -B     Sets map boundary tickmark intervals. See psbasemap for details.

       -C     Offset  focal mechanisms to the latitude and longitude specified
              in the last two columns of the input file.

       -D     Sigma_scale can be used to rescale the uncertainties of  veloci-
              ties (-Se and -Sr) and rotations (-Sw). Can be combined with the
              confidence  variable.

       -Ffill Sets the color or shade used for frame and annotation.  [Default
              is 0/0/0 (black)]

       -Efill Sets  the  color  or  shade  used for filling uncertainty wedges
              (-Sw) or velocity error ellipses (-Se or -Sr).  [If  -E  is  not
              specified, the uncertainty regions will be transparent.]

       -Gfill Select  filling  of  ellipses,  wedges, and focal mechanisms. By
              convention, the compressional quadrants of the  focal  mechanism
              beach  balls  are shaded. Set the shade (0-255) or color (r/g/b)
              [Default is 0/0/0].  Optionally,  specify  -Gpicon_size/pattern,
              where  pattern  gives  the number of the image pattern (1-32) OR
              the name of a icon-format file. icon_size sets the unit size  in
              inches.   To  invert  black and white pixels, use -GP instead of
              -Gp. See pspatterns for information on individual patterns.

       -H     Input file(s) has Header record(s). Number of header records can
              be  changed  by  editing  your  .gmtdefaults  file. If used, GMT
              default is 1 header record.

       -K     More PostScript code will be appended later [Default  terminates
              the plot system].

       -L     Draw  lines.  Ellipses and fault planes will have their outlines
              drawn using current pen (see -W).

       -N     Do NOT skip symbols that fall outside the frame boundary  speci-
              fied by -R.
               [Default plots symbols inside frame only].

       -bo    Selects binary output. Append s for single precision [Default is
              double].

       -P     Selects Portrait plotting mode [GMT Default  is  Landscape,  see
              gmtdefaults to change this].

       -U     Draw  Unix System time stamp on plot. User may specify where the
              lower left corner of the stamp should fall on the page  relative
              to  lower  left corner of plot. Optionally, append a label, or c
              (which will  plot  the  command  string.).  The  GMT  parameters
              UNIX_TIME  and  UNIX_TIME_POS can affect the appearance; see the
              gmtdefaults man page for details.

       -V     Selects verbose mode, which will send progress reports to stderr
              [Default runs "silently"].

       -W     Set  pen  attributes  for velocity arrows, ellipse circumference
              and fault plane edges.
               [Defaults: width = 1, color = 0/0/0, texture = solid].

       -X -Y  Shift origin of plot by (x-shift,y-shift).  Prepend a for  abso-
              lute coordinates; the default (r) will reset plot origin.

       -:     Toggles  between  (longitude,latitude)  and (latitude,longitude)
              input/output. [Default  is  (longitude,latitude)].   Applies  to
              geographic coordinates only.

       -c     Specifies the number of plot copies. [Default is 1]


EXAMPLES

       The  following should make big red arrows with green ellipses, outlined
       in red. Note that the 39% confidence scaling will give an ellipse which
       fits inside a rectangle of dimension Esig by Nsig.

       psvelo   <<  END  -H2  -R-10/10/-10/10  -W1/255/0/0  .br  -G0/255/0  -L
       -Se0.2/0.39/18 -B1g1 -Jx0.4/0.4 .br -A0.1/0.3/0.3 -P -V >! test.ps
         Long. Lat. Evel Nvel Esig Nsig CorEN SITE
         (deg) (deg) (mm/yr) (mm/yr)
          0. -8. 0.0 0.0 4.0 6.0 0.500 4x6
         -8. 5. 3.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.500 3x3
          0. 0. 4.0 6.0 4.0 6.0 0.500
         -5. -5. 6.0 4.0 6.0 4.0 0.500 6x4
          5. 0. -6.0 4.0 6.0 4.0 -0.500 -6x4
          0. -5. 6.0 -4.0 6.0 4.0 -0.500 6x-4
       END
       The example should plot some residual rates of rotation in the  Western
       Transverse Ranges, California. The wedges will be dark gray, with light
       gray wedges to represent the 2-sigma uncertainties.

       psvelo  <<END  -Sw0.4/1.e7  -W3  -G60  -E210   -H1   -D2   -Jm2.2   .br
       -R240./243./32.5/34.75 -Bf10ma60m/WeSn -P >! test.ps
        lon lat spin(rad/yr) spin_sigma (rad/yr)
       241.4806 34.2073 5.65E-08 1.17E-08
       241.6024 34.4468 -4.85E-08 1.85E-08
       241.0952 34.4079 4.46E-09 3.07E-08
       241.2542 34.2581 1.28E-07 1.59E-08
       242.0593 34.0773 -6.62E-08 1.74E-08
       241.0553 34.5369 -2.38E-07 4.27E-08
       241.1993 33.1894 -2.99E-10 7.64E-09
       241.1084 34.2565 2.17E-08 3.53E-08
       END



SEE ALSO

       gmt(GMTMANSECTION), psbasemap(GMTMANSECTION) psxy(GMTMANSECTION)


REFERENCES

       Bomford, G., Geodesy, 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1980.


AUTHORS

       Kurt Feigl
       CNRS UMR 5562
       Toulouse, France
       (Kurt.Feigl@.cnes.fr)
       Genevieve Patau
       CNRS UMR 7580
       Seismology Dept.
       Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
       (patau@ipgp.jussieu.fr)



                                  1 Jan 2004                         PSVELO(l)

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