create masks of geographical regions¶
regionmask is a Python module that:
- contains a number of defined regions, including: countries (from Natural Earth), a landmask and regions used in the scientific literature (the Giorgi regions [1] and the SREX regions [2]).
- can plot figures of these regions (tutorial) with matplotlib and cartopy
- can be used to create masks of the regions for arbitrary longitude and latitude grids with numpy (tutorial) and xarray (tutorial)
- arbitrary regions can be defined easily (tutorial)
Usage¶
Please have a look at the tutorials.
Contents¶
License¶
regionmask is published under a MIT license.