Overlay a spectrum in contourf on top of polar (without the ticks)

Hello,

I have a question regarding a contourf plot and polar. For a current project (and I will have to do the same thing for future projects), I have a spectrum that I plotted using contourf. What I need to do is to overlay lines indicating the angles on top of the contourf plot. The problem is that when I just do a polar plot, hold it on and then add my contourf plot, I still have the annoying tick labels from polar.

There are three adjustments that I want to make to the figure for it to be what I need: 1. I need to remove the tick labels of the different angles and of the different circle radii 2. The plot needs to be square instead of circular so that the x axis and y axis match up to the plot. 3. When I save it, the color from the contourf does not save and all I get is a black and white contour plot on top of a polar plot.

figure
polar(thn,rc);
hold on;
contourf(xn,yn,psi5n,12);
hold on;
colorbar;
xminb=-r;
xmaxb=r;
yminb=-r;
ymaxb=r;
xlim([xminb xmaxb]);
ylim([yminb ymaxb]);
xlabel('k (rad/m)','fontsize',14);
ylabel('k (rad/m)','fontsize',14);
formatSpec ='Wave Spectrum time %g hours, location (%g lat, %g lon), WS %g m/s, (min 10 m)';
title(sprintf(formatSpec,tma,latp,lonp,ws),'fontsize',14);

I tried doing the following contour plot followed by hold on, then the polar plot and hold on, and finally the contourf plot. Doing that gave me a nice image, but it did not plot the lines from polar. I simply had the large contour rings with my contourf image on top as if MATLAB ignored the polar part of my code.

[C,h] = contour(xn,yn,kn,cvec,'color','k','LineStyle','--');

Fixing this problem will help me considerably as it will make the image for my project better and come in handy with research.

Thanks.

[Sean de Wolski]

If you could provide a *.mat file on a free webhosting site so that we can actually run your code, that would help a lot.

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/7924-where-can-i-upload-images-and-files-for-use-on-matlab-answers

[Colin]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/36586-wave-spectrum-radial-plot

This includes the entire code and some of the variables necessary to run it. I have submitted the larger files (the wave spectra which I refer to as psi). These files correspond to 2 dimensional wave spectra from different wind speeds. In each case, the wind speed is uniform and constant from south to north over a 3 degree longitude by 3 degree latitude grid.

[Monika]

Hi! I have a similar problem. This is how my plot looks like in Matlab:

And this is how it saves as .png file:

if true
  % code
g = figure;
subplot(1,2,1); 
h1 = polar(x,y,'o');
hold on
contourf(X,Y,Z2)
colorbar('location','southoutside')
title('FILLED CONTOUR','FontSize',10)
delete(h1)
subplot(1,2,2); 
h1 = polar(x,y,'o');
hold on
contour(X,Y,Z2)
title('CONTOUR','FontSize',10)
colorbar('location','southoutside')
delete(h1)

end

Please HELP! :]