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Update URLs for standard name table.
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When appropriate, the table entry also contains the corresponding GRIB parameter code(s) (from ECMWF and NCEP) and AMIP identifiers.

The standard name table is located at link:$$http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/standard-name-table/current/cf-standard-name-table.xml$$[http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/standard-name-table/current/cf-standard-name-table.xml], written in compliance with the XML format, as described in <<standard-name-table-format>>. Knowledge of the XML format is only necessary for application writers who plan to directly access the table. A formatted text version of the table is provided at link:$$http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/standard-name-table/current/standard-name-table$$[http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/standard-name-table/current/standard-name-table], and this table may be consulted in order to find the standard name that should be assigned to a variable. Some standard names (e.g. **`region`** and **`area_type`**) are used to indicate quantities which are permitted to take only certain standard values. This is indicated in the definition of the quantity in the standard name table, accompanied by a list or a link to a list of the permitted values.
The standard name table is located at
http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-standard-names/current/src/cf-standard-name-table.xml,
written in compliance with the XML format, as described in
<<standard-name-table-format>>. Knowledge of the XML format is only necessary
for application writers who plan to directly access the table. A formatted text
version of the table is provided at
http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-standard-names/current/build/cf-standard-name-table.html,
and this table may be consulted in order to find the standard name that should
be assigned to a variable. Some standard names (e.g. **`region`** and
**`area_type`**) are used to indicate quantities which are permitted to take
only certain standard values. This is indicated in the definition of the
quantity in the standard name table, accompanied by a list or a link to a list
of the permitted values.

Standard names by themselves are not always sufficient to describe a quantity. For example, a variable may contain data to which spatial or temporal operations have been applied. Or the data may represent an uncertainty in the measurement of a quantity. These quantity attributes are expressed as modifiers of the standard name. Modifications due to common statistical operations are expressed via the **`cell_methods`** attribute (see <<cell-methods>> and <<appendix-cell-methods>>). Other types of quantity modifiers are expressed using the optional modifier part of the **`standard_name`** attribute. The permissible values of these modifiers are given in <<standard-name-modifiers>>.

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[[geographic-regions, Section 6.1.1, "Geographic Regions"]]
==== Geographic Regions

When data is representative of geographic regions which can be identified by names but which have complex boundaries that cannot practically be specified using longitude and latitude boundary coordinates, a labeled axis should be used to identify the regions. We recommend that the names be chosen from the list of link:$$http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/standardized-region-names$$[standardized region names] whenever possible. To indicate that the label values are standardized the variable that contains the labels must be given the **`standard_name`** attribute with the value `region`.
When data is representative of geographic regions which can be identified by names but which have complex boundaries that cannot practically be specified using longitude and latitude boundary coordinates, a labeled axis should be used to identify the regions. We recommend that the names be chosen from the list of link:$$http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-standard-names/docs/standardized-region-names.html$$[standardized region names] whenever possible. To indicate that the label values are standardized the variable that contains the labels must be given the **`standard_name`** attribute with the value `region`.

[[northward-heat-transport-in-atlantic-ocean-ex]]
[caption="Example 6.2. "]
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