Rignot2011Ice
This example shows how to mimic Figure 1 of Rignot, Mouginot, and Scheuchl's 2011 Science paper titled Ice Flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Contents
Requirements
This example requires
Define a color map
First we define a color map using rgbmap. The colors I'm picking here are just a guess, but I am colorblind, so you'll probably do better picking colors yourself:
cmap = rgbmap('pinkish brown','tan','light yellow','light grass green',... 'aqua','dark blue','magenta','red');
Plot ice speed
The measures function plots ice easily:
measures('speed','colormap',cmap,'colorbar','northoutside')

Overlay drainage basins
This step is pretty straigtforward:
basins

Overlay a graticule
Rignot et al. use a gray graticule every 10 degrees latitude on the fives, and every 30 degrees longitude:
antmap('graticule','lats',-85:10:-65,'lons',0:30:150,... 'color',[.5 .5 .5],'linewidth',.2,'frame','off','linestyle',':')

Format colorbar
Tweaking the colorbar on a log scale plot can be a little tricky. First we get the handle of the current colorbar, then set its location and tick marks. Then add a label.
cb = findobj(gcf,'tag','Colorbar'); set(cb,'location','north','position',[.15 .85 .3 .04],... 'xtick',[log10(1.5) 1 2 3]','xticklabel',{num2str([1.5 10 100 1000]')}) xlabel(cb,'velocity magnitude [m/yr]')

Author Info
Chad Greene wrote this example file. Chad claims absolutely no credit for the underlying data. See the measures function documentation for proper data citation.