2D wave direction Plot with Arrow

Dear All

I am trying to make a plot of 2D wave direction but I am not sure the script whether is it true or not,

Please give me some reference to plot the wave direction

Attached the script, data, and, result

my reference; https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html#download

Answer 1

[Sudharsana Iyengar]

You can use the in built quiver function which is in Matlab. For instance when you want to plot the wind direction in a given region, you can use quiver function.

What quiver does is, it takes 4 arguments. X,Y is the postions and then U and V which are the x and y component of what ever physical parameter you want to study about. For more details. https://in.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/quiver.html

The M map tool box by the https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html contains there own scripts which will add the maps to the plot.

I hope this helps. I dont have M map tool box. I just used Matlab's quiver function to get this figure attached below.

load('D.mat')
[lat,lon]=meshgrid(-60:2:0,20:2:134);
u=sind(D/6);
v=cosd((D)/6);

%m_proj('oblique','lat',[12 -60],'lon',[60 160],'aspect',.8);
%m_coast('patch',[.9 .9 .9],'edgecolor','none');
%m_grid('tickdir','out','yaxislocation','right',...
            %'xaxislocation','top','xlabeldir','end','ticklen',.02);
hold on;
quiver(lon,lat,u,v); % note I have used quiver function.

xlabel('wave direction');

[Muhammad Uswah Pawara]

Thank you for very detailed explanation