Hi Andreas, No, there aren't any standardized bounds. As I understand it, the idea of using region names is to get around the problem of having irregularly shaped areas that don't have a simple lat-lon extent. The details are in the CF conventions doc, section 6.1.1.
Best wishes, Alison ------ Alison Pamment Tel: +44 1235 778065 NCAS/Centre for Environmental Data Archival Email: [email protected] STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory R25, 2.22 Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K. > -----Original Message----- > From: CF-metadata [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Andreas Hilboll > Sent: 23 April 2015 16:54 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Standardized Region Names > > Hi Alison, Ros, > > just out of curiosity: Are there also standardized lat/lon bounds for > these regions? Will they be included in the XML (they're not on the > HTML version, as I see)? > > Best, > Andreas. > > > On 23.04.2015 17:50, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi Ros, > > > > > > > > No, there isn't currently an XML version of the region names (I don't > > think one has ever existed). If you do create a version and add it to > > the CF website I'd be happy to maintain it along with the XML and HTML > > versions of the standard_name and area_types tables. > > > > > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Alison > > > > > > > > ------ > > > > Alison Pamment Tel: +44 1235 778065 > > > > NCAS/Centre for Environmental Data Archival Email: > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory > > > > R25, 2.22 > > > > Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K. > > > > > > > > > > > > *From:*CF-metadata [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf > > Of *Rosalyn Hatcher > > *Sent:* 23 April 2015 16:37 > > *To:* [email protected] > > *Subject:* [CF-metadata] Standardized Region Names > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Is there a version of the standardized region names list > > (http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-standard-names/docs/standardized- > region-names.html) > > in xml anywhere? > > > > I'm in the process of getting the CF Checker to validate against the > > list of region names and it would be > > easiest if it's in xml format like the area_types and standard_name > > tables. Am happy to create one if > > one doesn't exist. > > > > Regards, > > Ros. > > > > > > -- > > > > Rosalyn Hatcher > > > > NCAS Computational Modelling Services > > > > Dept. of Meteorology, University of Reading, > > > > Earley Gate, Reading. RG6 6BB > > > > Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Tel: +44 (0) 118 378 5429 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CF-metadata mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > > > > > -- > -- Andreas. > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
