cd ../uncompressed fn='calus200_fltW.nc' %open float file, get coordinates of trajectories nc=netcdf(fn); x=nc{'x'}(2:end,:); %last index for for the number of floats released y=nc{'y'}(2:end,:); close(nc); x_=nc_varget(fn,'x'); x=x_(2:end,:); y_=nc_varget(fn,'y'); y=y_(2:end,:); %open his.nc file to get coordinates of computational grid nc=netcdf('tmpnc34.nc'); Xgrd=nc{x_rho}(:,:) Ygrd=nc{y_rho}(:,:) close(nc) cd ../analout figure %blank grid pcolor(Xgrd,Ygrd,Xgr*NaN); hold on %axis equal for i=1:length(x(:,1)), plot(x(i,:),y(i,:),'.b') pause(0.2) end