%** this script produces maps of earth surface elevation for the present % and as reconstructed for the Last Glacial Maximum % % globaltopo.mat Earth surface elevation, meters % topoE present-day 180 x 360 matrix, 1 degree grid % geoidE present-day geoid height 180 x 360 matrix, 1 degree grid % IceAge last glacial maximum as computed by Peltier (ICEG4) % 180 x 360 matrix, 1 degree grid % maplat maplon: latitude and longitude, degrees % % reference % Peltier, W. R., Ice Age Paleotopography, 1994, Science, v. 265, % pp. 195-201. load globaltopo load coast % Matlab native file wind=[min(maplon) max(maplon) min(maplat) max(maplat)]; % plot window Cmint=-9000; % minimum surface elevation for color Cmaxt=7000; % maximum surface elevation %****** % Earth surace elevation %****** figure(1) clf pcolor(maplon, maplat, topoE) shading flat axis equal axis(wind) hold on caxis([Cmint Cmaxt]) plot(long, lat, 'k-') colorbar('horiz') title('Earth surface elevation (m) on a 1x1 grid') xlabel('longitude') ylabel('latitude') figure(2) clf pcolor(maplon, maplat, IceAge) shading flat axis equal axis(wind) hold on caxis([Cmint Cmaxt]) plot(long, lat, 'k-') colorbar('horiz') title('Peltier Earth surface elevation at LGM (m) on a 1x1 grid') xlabel('longitude') ylabel('latitude') figure(3) clf pcolor(maplon, maplat, IceAge-topoE) shading flat axis equal axis(wind) hold on plot(long, lat, 'k-') colorbar('horiz') title('change in surface elevation at LGM to present-day (m)') xlabel('longitude') ylabel('latitude') figure(4) clf pcolor(maplon, maplat, geoidE) shading flat axis equal axis(wind) hold on title('geoid height (m)') colorbar('horiz') hold on plot(long, lat, 'k-')