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Meridional x-section of zonal avg temp and u-wind

Caption:
+Zonally averaged meridional cross section (1000 hPa to 10 hPa) taken from 30N to 90N.
+Zonal average air temperature (solid black contours every 5 deg C).
+Zonal average u-comp of the wind (shaded according to the colorbar and thin white contours every 5 m/s). Warm colors are westerly flow (out of the page) while cool colors are easterly flow (into the page).
+Image was generated from 0.5x0.5^o NCEP-GFS data.