MATLAB: Plotting lat, lon, altitude, variable

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I have 3 vectors of latitude, longitude, and elevation respectively. I also have a corresponding 3d matrix of size latitude*longitude*elevation which contains some data (Temperature). I want to display the Temperature data in 3d space. What is the best way to do this? Note: I don't want to use trisurf because it requires reshaping the matrix into 3 separate vectors, with which I found difficulty in tracking the data points.
Many thanks.
-Sagar

Best Answer

You can try pcolor3, although it does not work for Matlab 2014b.
% Some data: 
[lon,lat,z] = meshgrid(-180:3:180,-90:2:90,0:50:1000); 
T = 20 - .1*abs(lat) - .01*z + sind(lon); 
% Plot dataset: 
pcolor3(lon,lat,z,T); 
% Add labels: 
xlabel('longitude')
ylabel('latitude')
zlabel('elevation (m)') 
title('temperature or something') 
axis tight
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