MATLAB Limiting Map Boundaries in Matlab for Scientists

[Frank Einstein]

Hello everyone. I have generated a world map by plotting coastlat and coastlon. I have done it because I want to plot some data that I have over said map. The problem is that my data goes only from 70N to 40 S and from 45E to 125W, thanks to that, I have a figure which looks like in the adjoint image (made with token data instead of the actual one).

Is there a way to limit the map to the colored area or do I have to manually crop it with paint?

Thanks for your answers.

 

[Orodruin]

How are we to help you if you don’t show us your code?

 

[Frank Einstein]

How are we to help you if you don’t show us your code?

My code is as follows:

    figure
    contourf(Y,X, proxy_data_1)
    hold on
    axesm mercator;
    plot(coastlon,coastlat,'k','LineWidth',2)

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While X and Y are defined as: [X,Y] = meshgrid(70:-0.25:-40,-125:0.25:45);

Proxy data is a matrix of size X*Y.

 

[Orodruin]

Did you look up the help for the axesm function?

 

[Frank Einstein]

I am afraid it doesn't work since i am workng with plot instead of plotm; however, you gave me an idea, I have tried to use axis instead of axesm and it does the job. Thank you very much.