adding tics to the colorbar

I create temperature plots using the pcolor command. I know how to add lines for certain threshold levels to my plots but I also want mark these levels with tics and a character string on the colorbar.

Any suggestion how to do this is apreciated.

Thanks in advance, Peter

Answer 1

[Paulo Silva]

Here's a general example on how to do your own ticks

axes %create a figure with one axe
set(gca,'XLim',[0 100]) %change the x axe limit
xt=linspace(1,100,10) %make a vector starting on 1 and ending in 100 with 10 elements 
set(gca,'XTick',xt) %set your own ticks from the vector xt

In your case you must do your own ticks vector from the data y you have, maybe something like you did with the threshold levels.

For the character string on the colorbar you can use the text function.