huracanpy.info.continent

huracanpy.info.continent(lon, lat, resolution='10m', crs=None)

Detect the continent each point is over

Parameters:

• lon (float or array_like)

• lat (float or array_like)

• resolution (str) –

  The resolution of the Land/Sea outlines dataset to use. One of

  • 10m (1:10,000,000)

  • 50m (1:50,000,000)

  • 110m (1:110,000,000)

• crs (cartopy.crs.CRS)

Returns:

Array of continent names (or empty string for no continent) for each lon/lat point. Should return the same type of array as the input lon/lat, or a length 1 numpy.ndarray if lon/lat are floats

Return type:

array_like