Is there a list of the human readable names for the "area" field?

[justdave]

Many of the API calls have a field called "area" which is state or marine area codes. The specification only gives a list of valid 2-letter codes for this field, but I can't find anywhere that explains what they stand for. The ones that are states are obvious, but there's a bunch at the end which aren't states (presumably marine zones, etc).

It would be nice if there were an API call that would return a list of the valid area codes and their human readable descriptions (but I guess that's a feature request).

I could just hard-code them for now, if only I knew what they all were. :-)

Thanks!

[StephenClouse]

The marine codes are defined in NWS Directive 10-302. We have added these definitions to the OpenAPI documentation in the next release:

• AM: Western North Atlantic Ocean and along U.S. East Coast south of Currituck Beach Light NC following the coastline into Gulf of Mexico to Ocean Reef FL including the Caribbean
• AN: Western North Atlantic Ocean and along U.S. East Coast from Canadian border south to Currituck Beach Light NC
• GM: Gulf of Mexico and along the U.S. Gulf Coast from the Mexican border to Ocean Reef FL
• LC: Lake St. Clair
• LE: Lake Erie
• LH: Lake Huron
• LM: Lake Michigan
• LO: Lake Ontario
• LS: Lake Superior
• PH: Central Pacific Ocean including Hawaiian waters
• PK: North Pacific Ocean near Alaska and along Alaska coastline including the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska
• PM: Western Pacific Ocean including Mariana Island waters
• PS: South Central Pacific Ocean including American Samoa waters
• PZ: Eastern North Pacific Ocean and along U.S. West Coast from Canadian border to Mexican border
• SL: St. Lawrence River above St. Regis