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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