Dear Alison and all,
I have not objection to adding the region. I also favor the Standard
Names Committee (and you) be responsible for the region names. Finally,
I would ask the committee to consider adding any CMIP5 region
identifiers to the official list, unless of course those names seem
inappropriate.
thanks,
Karl
On 1/11/12 7:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Dear Jonathan,
In September Jim Biard requested a standardized region name for the contiguous
United States. Several people commented and there was general agreement that
contiguous_united_states would be a suitable string to add to the list of
region names.
Before I proceed, however, I note that the file on the CF website which
contains the region names also contains the following introductory text:
"This list was based on the NASA GCMD keyword list for locations which was valid on
12 December 2002. We retained only the names of geographical regions from the GCMD list,
changing them to lower case and replacing the separators within the names by underscores
to be consistent with the style used for CF standard names. We excluded (a) countries
(these could be added if required), (b) regions that could be specified by coordinate
ranges in CF (e.g. western hemisphere), (c) ill-defined regions (e.g. west Africa), (d)
names for layers and surfaces of the Earth (e.g. mantle, sea floor), which are or would
be included in standard names if required. We have also added names shown like this. Our
intention is to keep this list consistent with GCMD."
I wonder if this list has ever been updated since December 2002 (I certainly
haven't made any changes). Does the list need to be reviewed? Also, strictly
speaking, the region list is separate from the standard name table, so do we
want it to be maintained along with standard names (I'm happy to keep it up to
date if the answer is 'yes') or should it be regarded as the domain of the
conventions committee? I'd appreciate it if we can clarify who should be
maintaining the list before I go ahead and start making modifications. I think
there may be some CMIP5 related region names that are also not currently part
of the list.
Best wishes,
Alison
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NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre Email: [email protected]
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
R25, 2.22
Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:cf-metadata-
[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gregory
Sent: 16 September 2011 16:55
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Request for a region standard_name
Dear Jim
Following Don's comment, if you'd be happy with a standard region name
of
contiguous_united_states, and since no-one else has objected, I think
we
should agree to that. (We can omit of_america; I would expect people to
know
where the united_kingdom is without
of_great_britain_and_northern_ireland!)
I expect Alison will comment and/or add it to the table when she is
able to.
Cheers
Jonathan
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