Dear Jonathan,
Frank Bryan at NCAR was requesting "Indo-Pacific" for a region, which I
guess is commonly used for calculating northward ocean heat transport in
those basins.
cheers,
Karl
Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear Karl
>
>
>>Is there a CF-compliant way to combine official regions (e.g., a region
>>that includes both North America and South America)?
>
>
> I don't think so. We can either invent one, or introduce additional names for
> combined regions. I would prefer the latter, as it involves no new machinery,
> if it's practical. I think it would work if the combined regions requiring
> names are a finite set, which I guess would be the case e.g. I suspect you will
> not want a region name for Afghanistan plus Zimbabwe.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
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Received on Wed Mar 31 2004 - 15:35:17 BST
