plotting second y axis with pcolor command

Is it possible to prodce a pcolor plot with 2 yaxis?

Consider the following example:

clear all
temp =  1 + (20-1).*rand(365,12);
depth = 1:12;
time =1:365;

data2 = 1 + (60-1).*rand(12,1); 
time2 = [28,56,84,124,150,184,210,234,265,288,312,342];

figure;
pcolor(time,depth,temp');axis ij; shading interp
hold on 
plot(time2,data2,'w','linewidth',3);

Instead of plotting the second dataset on the same y axis I would like it to placed on its own y-axis, similar to the plotyy command. How can this be achieved?

Answer 1

[Aaditya Kalsi]

You can do this by creating another axis on top of the existing one in the same position. You can then play with transparencies.

Ex.:

 figure;
 temp =  1 + (20-1).*rand(365,12);
 depth = 1:12;
 time =1:365;
 data2 = 1 + (60-1).*rand(12,1); 
 time2 = [28,56,84,124,150,184,210,234,265,288,312,342];
 % create the first axis
 pcolor(time, depth, temp'); axis ij;
 % get axis position
 axPos = get(gca, 'Position');
 axLim = get(gca, 'XLim');
 % Create a new axis that is transparent where data is not present
 newAx = axes('Position', axPos);
 plot(newAx, time2,data2,'linewidth',3);
 set(newAx, 'color', 'none');
 set(newAx, 'XLim', axLim)