Scientific Regions

The following regions, used in the scientific literature, are already defined:

  • Giorgi Regions (from Giorgi and Franciso, 2000)

  • SREX Regions (Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) from Seneviratne et al., 2012)

The following imports are necessary for the examples.

In [1]: import regionmask

In [2]: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

Giorgi Regions

In [3]: regionmask.defined_regions.giorgi.plot(label='abbrev');

In [4]: plt.tight_layout()
_images/plotting_giorgi.png

SREX Regions

In [5]: regionmask.defined_regions.srex.plot();

In [6]: plt.tight_layout()
_images/plotting_srex.png