Description:  This tab displays a 3D wind surface image of the current storm.  The 3D wind surface lets the user visualize the wind structure of the storm in a 3 dimensional manner.  You can "move around" the storm by moving the horizontal sliding scale.  The default "view" is from the South (180).  You can also move "up and down" by moving the vertical sliding scale.  The default elevation is 0.  There are several controls that set in the General Options which determine how this functions operates.   One which determines the density or level of detail of the graph and the other sets how the image is to be updated (with the movement of the sliding scale or by pressing the OK button.

Tab Created by: Variable tracking chart Tab, Favorite Tracking Chart Tab

Tab Close Allowed: Yes

Functions Available:

Menu/Toolbar:

Standard System Menu Functions

3D Style - Allows the user to change the 3D surface graph to a 2D “contour" analysis or back to the default surface analysis.

Send - Sends current tab’s image as a graphic or pdf via email.

Print - Prints the graph to the windows printer.

Save Image - Saves the image to a BMP file (bitmapped).

An example of a 2D contour analysis is shown below: