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contourfm

Project filled 2-D contour plot of map data

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Description

The contourfm function is the same as the contourm function except that the areas between contours are filled with colors. For each contour interval, contourfm selects a distinct color from the figure's colormap. You can obtain the same result by setting 'Fill','on' and 'LineColor','black' when calling contourm.

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Get geoid heights and a geographic postings reference object from the EGM96 geoid model. Load coastline latitude and longitude data.

[N,R] = egm96geoid;
load coastlines

Create a filled contour plot of the geoid data on a world map. Plot the coastline data using geoshow and display a colorbar for the contour plot using contourcbar.

worldmap('world')
levels = -120:20:100;
contourfm(N,R,levels,'LineStyle','none')
geoshow(coastlat,coastlon,'Color','k')
contourcbar

Version History

Introduced before R2006a

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