pcolor/m_pcolor cannot create world map correctly
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Hello all,
I have an issue to create world mean temperature map correctly with pcolor/m_pcolor. There are strips on the map created. Please see the first map.
h1 = pcolor(lon,lat,statTa(:,:,i)); set(h1,'edgecolor','none'); colorbar;
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/150564/image.png)
When I use imagesc, it shows pretty well. Please see the second map. But I think I prefer to use pcolor/m_pcolor to create map since they are more powerful on creating maps. Please help me on what happened when I was using pcolor here. Thank you very much!
h2 = imagesc(lon,lat,statTa(:,:,i)); set(gca,'ydir','normal'); colorbar;
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/150566/image.png)
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Mike Garrity
on 9 Jun 2015
What version of MATLAB are you using? That looks like an issue that was fixed in R2014b. Is your version older than that, or newer?
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Chad Greene
on 9 Jun 2015
This question has been answered in the comments above, but in case anyone else runs into this problem again, here's an easier-to-find version of the solution. This is a rendering issue in Matlab versions pre-R2014b. Type
set(gcf,'renderer','opengl')
If that doesn't work, try
set(gcf,'renderer','painters')
and if that doesn't work, try
set(gcf,'renderer','zbuffer')
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Chad Greene
on 9 Jun 2015
Rong, if this solution worked for you, please click "Accept this answer" so it'll get top-posted.
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Chad Greene
on 8 Jun 2015
I see that when you use pcolor your axis values are not lat,lon values. Looks like linear indices of rows and columns. Are you sure you're plotting lat and lon?
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