About cmocean

Click here or a detailed description of cmocean and plenty of examples of the colormaps in action.

Function documentation

Click here for online documentation that shows how to use the cmocean function. You'll find the documentation under the Examples tab.

To access documentation from within Matlab, type

showdemo cmocean_documentation

into your command window.

Citing cmocean

If cmocean is useful for you, please consider citing our paper:

Thyng, K.M., C.A. Greene, R.D. Hetland, H.M. Zimmerle, and S.F. DiMarco. 2016. True colors of oceanography: Guidelines for effective and accurate colormap selection. Oceanography 29(3):9–13. https://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.66