Can I improve the efficiency of space use while saving my figures?

Hello everyone. I am currently using matlab to generate some figures. I am using the following code:

figure
subplot(3,1,1)
contourf(Y,X, stdRVTotal3D)
hold on
axesm mercator; 
plot(coastlon,coastlat,'k', 'LineWidth', 1.5)
axis([-20 -10 23 32])
c2 = colorbar;
caxis([0, 2.8]);
xlabel('Longitude(^o)')
ylabel('Latitude(^o)')
title('4 RV')

subplot(3,1,2)
contourf(Y,X, stdRV3RV3D)
hold on
axesm mercator; 
plot(coastlon,coastlat,'k', 'LineWidth', 1.5)
axis([-20 -10 23 32])
c2 = colorbar;
caxis([0, 2.8]);
xlabel('Longitude(^o)')
ylabel('Latitude(^o)')
title('3 RV')

subplot(3,1,3)
contourf(Y,X, stdRV2RV3D)
hold on
axesm mercator; 
plot(coastlon,coastlat,'k', 'LineWidth', 1.5)
axis([-20 -10 23 32])
c2 = colorbar;
caxis([0, 2.8]);
xlabel('Longitude(^o)')
ylabel('Latitude(^o)')
title('2 RV')
sgtitle('STD wind velocity in the Y direction (m/s) nodes')

However, the resulting figure has a lot of empty space.

Can someone please give me some advice on how to get bigger subplots inside of the same figure?

Best regards.

Jaime.

Answer 1

[Voss]

You can try increasing the height of the figure, e.g., by dragging the edge of it, or by setting its Position in your code.

f1 = figure('Color','g');
make_subplots();

f2 = figure('Color','g','Position',[0 0 577 900]);
make_subplots();

f2 = figure('Color','g','Position',[0 0 577 1800]);
make_subplots();

function make_subplots()
subplot(3,1,1)
axesm mercator; 
subplot(3,1,2)
axesm mercator; 
subplot(3,1,3)
axesm mercator; 
sgtitle('STD wind velocity in the Y direction (m/s) nodes')
end