Visualizing only a section of the atmosphere on a SkewT

[DannySunvold]

Hi. This might be impossible / a dumb question, but I figured I'd at least try to see if it was possible.

I'm working with data that only covers a small section of the atmosphere. I've been using the SkewT function within Metpy to visualize the data, and have set the y limits so that only the pressure levels that have data are shown, but the plot ends up very squished and hard to read, like so:

Is there a way enlarge this so that the SkewT is bigger and easier to read than what it currently is? I don't want to plot the entire SkewT from 1000mb to 100mb, just the section that actually contains data. Am I missing something that can be done to do this? I tried playing with the figure size but that didn't seem to help.

[dopplershift]

The challenge here is that skewT gets challenging with changing plot shapes. SkewT in MetPy by default sets a fixed aspect of 80.5 which locks in the ratio of horizontal and vertical plot ranges and keeps things looking "like a skew-T". The knobs you have available:

1. Manually specify your x limits--for the plot above things look better if you do skew.ax.set_xlim(10, 25).
2. By default, MetPy tells Matplotlib to adjust the box to keep right aspect based on the data limits. You could change this with skew.ax.set_adjustable('datalim').
3. Override MetPy's fixed aspect ratio with skew.ax.set_aspect(new_aspect_value)--our default is 80.5. I don't recommend this, though, because it can lead to weird slopes of things on plots, though,.

[DannySunvold]

I appreciate the info, thank you so much!