Colorbar and m_contourf.m: Setting user-defined color ranges
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I'm using m_contourf.m to produce contour maps (lat, lon) of a scalar field, e.g. surface temperature. I'm struggling to produce a colorbar that can do all of the following. Can someone help me out here?
- horizontal colorbar for a map plot
- red: if value < -0.1
blue: if larger than 0.1
white: if in between -0.1 and +0.1
white: if value is NaN
grey: if value is -999
- limits and all ticks can be set freely (e.g. -1 -0.2 -0.001 0 0.3 5)
- colorbar sections should have equal length (i.e. same distance between all tick marks)
Ideally, I'd like to define the colors myself, e.g. like so:
if -3< value <= -2, color=[0.8 0 0]
if -2< value < -1.8, color=[0.6 0 0]
.. if value == -999, color=[0.3 0.3 0.3]
if isnan(value), color=[1 1 1]
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Star Strider
on 19 Sep 2014
Note that ‘NaN’ values will not plot (at least they do not in my experience), so you will have to replace them with some defined quantity, and account for that in your colormap and colorbar.
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