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6.2.2.1 Polar Stereographic Map

In our first example we will let the projection center be at the north pole. This means we have a polar stereographic projection and the map boundaries will coincide with lines of constant longitude and latitude. An example is given by 




gmtset PLOT_DEGREE_FORMAT ddd:mm:ss
pscoast -R-30/30/60/72 -Js0/90/4.5i/60 -Ba10g5/5g5 -Dl -A250 -Gblack -P > GMT_stereographic_polar.ps




Figure 6.7: Polar stereographic conformal projection.
\begin{figure}\centering\epsfig{figure=eps/GMT_stereographic_polar.eps}\end{figure}

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Paul Wessel 2004-10-01