defined_scientific.rst

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)

python

# Use defaults so we don't get gridlines in generated docs import matplotlib as mpl mpl.rcdefaults() mpl.use('Agg')

The following imports are necessary for the examples.

python

import regionmask import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

Giorgi Regions

python

regionmask.defined_regions.giorgi.plot(label='abbrev');

@savefig plotting_giorgi.png width=6in plt.tight_layout()

SREX Regions

python

regionmask.defined_regions.srex.plot();

@savefig plotting_srex.png width=6in plt.tight_layout()

References

• Giorgi and Franciso, 2000: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/1999GL011016
• Seneviratne et al., 2012: https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/special-reports/srex/SREX-Ch3-Supplement_FINAL.pdf