Note

This tutorial was generated from an IPython notebook that can be downloaded here.

Create your own region

Note

In version 0.5 the Regions_cls has been renamed to Regions and it’s call signature has changed. All arguments (except outlines) are now optional.

Creating own regions is straightforward. Import regionmask and check the version:

import regionmask
regionmask.__version__

'0.5.0'

Import numpy

import numpy as np

Assume you have two custom regions in the US, you can easily use these to create Regions:

US1 = np.array([[-100., 30], [-100, 40], [-120, 35]])
US2 = np.array([[-100., 30], [-80, 30], [-80, 40], [-100, 40]])

regionmask.Regions([US1, US2])

2 'unnamed' Regions
r0 r1

If you want to set the names and abbrevs yourself you can still do that:

names = ['US_west', 'US_east']
abbrevs = ['USw', 'USe']

USregions = regionmask.Regions([US1, US2], names=names, abbrevs=abbrevs, name='US')
USregions

2 'US' Regions
USw USe

Again we can plot the outline of the defined regions

ax = USregions.plot(label='abbrev')

# load cartopy
import cartopy.crs as ccrs
# fine tune the extent
ax.set_extent([225, 300, 25, 45], crs=ccrs.PlateCarree());

and obtain a mask:

import numpy as np

# define lat/ lon grid
lon = np.arange(200.5, 330, 1)
lat = np.arange(74.5, 15, -1)

# for the plotting
lon_edges = np.arange(200, 331, 1)
lat_edges = np.arange(75, 14, -1)

mask = USregions.mask(lon, lat)

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

ax = plt.subplot(111, projection=ccrs.PlateCarree())

# pcolormesh does not handle NaNs, requires masked array
mask_ma = np.ma.masked_invalid(mask)

h = ax.pcolormesh(
    lon_edges,
    lat_edges,
    mask_ma,
    transform=ccrs.PlateCarree(),
    cmap='viridis',
)

ax.coastlines()

# add the outlines of the regions
USregions.plot_regions(ax=ax, add_label=False)

ax.set_extent([225, 300, 25, 45], crs=ccrs.PlateCarree());

Use shapely Polygon

If you have the region defined as a shapely polygon, this also works:

from shapely.geometry import Polygon, MultiPolygon

US1_poly = Polygon(US1)
US2_poly = Polygon(US2)

US1_poly, US2_poly

(<shapely.geometry.polygon.Polygon at 0x7fef04ca5128>,
 <shapely.geometry.polygon.Polygon at 0x7fef04ca53c8>)

USregions_poly = regionmask.Regions([US1_poly, US2_poly])

USregions_poly

2 'unnamed' Regions
r0 r1

Create Regions with MultiPolygon and interiors

Create two discontiguous regions and combine them to one. Add a hole to one of the regions

US1_shifted = US1 - (5, 0)
US2_hole = np.array([[-98., 33], [-92, 33], [-92, 37], [-98, 37], [-98., 33]])

Create Polygons, a MultiPolygon, and finally Regions

US1_poly = Polygon(US1_shifted)
US2_poly = Polygon(US2, holes=[US2_hole])

US_multipoly = MultiPolygon([US1_poly, US2_poly])

USregions_poly = regionmask.Regions([US_multipoly])

USregions_poly.plot()

# polygon interiors are not yet plotted by default
plt.plot(*US2_hole.T, color="k", transform=ccrs.PlateCarree())

[<matplotlib.lines.Line2D at 0x7fef04c43278>]

Create a mask:

mask = USregions_poly.mask(lon, lat)

and plot it:

ax = plt.subplot(111, projection=ccrs.PlateCarree())

mask.plot(transform=ccrs.PlateCarree(), add_colorbar=False)

ax.coastlines()

<cartopy.mpl.feature_artist.FeatureArtist at 0x7fef04c24d68>