Putting a label on the colorbar in imagesc plot

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Hello helpers, How I will put a label on the colorbar in the plot to show what it is actually representing ,there is nothing about it in the help pages. thanks for your help.
figure(9) z0=-0.6;
r0=0.3;
[xx,zz]=meshgrid(3.5:0.02:5.5,0:-0.01:-1.5);
rr0=-(zz-z0).^2;
vz1=1.55-0.48*zz-0.8*exp(rr0/r0);
contour(xx,zz,vz11,'showtext','on')
ylabel('Depth(km)') ;
xlabel('Distance in the x direction (km)')
title ('Exercise 8c1');
figure(10)
vz12 = 1.55-0.48*zz;
meshc(xx,zz,vz12)
ylabel(' Depth (km)'); xlabel('Distance in the x direction (km)');
zlabel('P_velocity(km/s)')
title ('Exercise 8c'); %d
figure(11) imagesc(x,z,vz11) colorbar ylabel(' Depth (km)'); xlabel('Distance in the x direction (km)'); zlabel('P_velocity(km/s)')
title('EX 8d1')
figure(12)
imagesc(x,z,vz12)
colorbar
ylabel(' Depth (km)');
xlabel('Distance in the x direction (km)');
zlabel('P_velocity(km/s)')
title('EX 8d2')

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 10 Dec 2017
I don't know why you say that. The example is right there in the help for colorbar. Did you overlook it? Here it is again:
contourf(peaks)
colorbar('Ticks',[-5,-2,1,4,7],...
'TickLabels',{'Cold','Cool','Neutral','Warm','Hot'})
Of course you can change those labels to say whatever you want.
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F.O
F.O on 11 Dec 2017
Edited: Image Analyst on 11 Dec 2017
It worked now after I used
c=colorbar
c.Label.String='P_velocity(km/s)'
but it doesn't seem to work if I just put the label like this:
colorbar('P_velocity(km/s)')
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 11 Dec 2017
That shouldn't be necessary. Passing a cell array of several strings into colorbar() should work. That's why you should call tech support.
Other than that, your alternative way puts up only one label, not several of them. If you want several labels going up beside the colorbar, then you have to pass several string labels via a cell array.

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