Dear Heinke, Frank, Karl and Jonathan, The CMIP5 regions I was thinking of were the names of various sea channels and straits. We added a lot of physical oceanography standard names for CMIP5 and among them were ocean mass and heat transports due to a number of processes and calculated in a number of locations such as:
barents_opening bering_strait denmark_strait drake_passage english_channel equatorial_undercurrent faroe_scotland_channel florida_strait fram_strait iceland_faroe_channel indonesian_throughflow mozambique_channel scotland_iceland_channel taiwan_and_luzon_straits windward_passage. These were discussed as far back as 2008 and I don't think there were any objections to having them as region names but they have never been added to the list. Karl and Jonathan (offlist) have both responded to say that they would like the region names to be maintained as a controlled vocabulary along with the standard name and area type tables. I'm happy to do this and I will update the region list to add the above names and contiguous_united_states at the same time as the next standard name table update. I don't know about the region requirements of projects such as CORDEX - I think the region names are all intended to be geographical areas rather than areas covered by particular projects. If you need to add any further geographical regions please let me know via the mailing list. According to the text in the current document there are no countries in the list but they can be added. Is there an active need to include all the countries in the ISO list? I assume that you are suggesting adding the country names, rather than the short codes. Best wishes, Alison ------ Alison Pamment Tel: +44 1235 778065 NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory R25, 2.22 Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heinke Hoeck Sent: 12 January 2012 10:58 To: Karl Taylor; [email protected] Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Request for a region standard_name Dear Karl and all, for CMIP5 we presently have no information about certain regions (observations?). Do you mean the subregions as defined in follow up projects as, e.g., CORDEX? As far as countries are concerned we strongly recommend to use the ISO normalization as explained, e.g., here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2 This probably also will us enable to solve the "GB/UK problem". Best wishes Heinke & Frank On 01/12/2012 02:36 AM, Karl Taylor wrote: 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]<mailto:[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 ------ Alison Pamment Tel: +44 1235 778065 NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory R25, 2.22 Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:cf-metadata- [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gregory Sent: 16 September 2011 16:55 To: [email protected]<mailto:[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. 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