Jonathan,

I'm happy either way. The acronym CONUS is in widespread use within the CONUS, but I am fine with a more explicit form.

Jim

On 9/9/2011 12:09 PM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
Dear Jim

I have a need for a region standard_name of "conus".  This is for the  
contiguous United States.  I don't see any other way to specify this region.   Can we add 
this please?
I think it would be fine to give it a standardised region name to add to the
list in
http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/standardized-region-names
but could it avoid abbreviation in order to me more self-explanatory e.g.
contiguous_united_states[_of_america]? "conus" is not an acronym that I've ever
seen before although I expect it is familiar to inhabitants of conus.

Best wishes

Jonathan
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