Contourm lines overlay labels (using clabelm)

I use contourm in order to make a map and I want to have labels as well. The label background color is set to none. The lines are going through the labels and this is not looking nice. In some cases it is dificult to read the labels as well.

Does anybody know how to make a small gap in where the labels are placed?

This is a part of the code!

hold on
[c,h] =contourm(flipud(aody),flipud(aodx),flipud(rot90(aod)),5:5:60,'w','LineWidth',1);
t = clabelm(c,h);
set(t,'Fontsize',14)

set(t,'Color','w')
set(t,'BackgroundColor','none')
set(t,'FontWeight','bold')

Answer 1

[Sebby RedRice]

Hello,

I personally havent done it but a co-worker had this 'work around' where she used contour instead of contourm.

The trick is to create an x and y meshgrid from matlab's domain instead of using the lat/lon coordinates that you would normally input in countourm. Here's an example where she did the countours with sea-level pressure:

%%%Code starts

%Find the matlab values of lat and longitudes. Must first create the domain, then go to graph editor and find the corresponding xlim and ylim

x1 = -0.515;

x2 = 0.52;

y1 = 0.358;

y2 = 1.032;

%Create grid data

y_file = linspace(y1,y2,Mj); %Mj and Mi are the number of grid cells in both direction

x_file = linspace(x1,x2,Mi);

[y,x]=meshgrid(y_file,x_file);

%Define pressure range

p_min = 950; % hPa

p_max = 1042; % hPa

dp = 4; % Distance between contours

%Create contour

[C,h]=contour(x,y,fld_p,p_min:dp:p_max,'k','LineWidth',1);

clabel(C,h,'FontSize',12,'FontWeight','bold')

Answer 2

[Fehmi Dilmahamod]

Hi there, I have the same issue. Did you manage to solve it?

[Platon Patlakas]

No actually. Left it like this! Sorry..

Answer 3

[David Shohami]

Not the solution you were looking for, but what I did was use

set (t, 'VerticalAlignment', 'cap');

which placed the labels just below the contour, instead of on top of it.