The NCAR/Earth Observing Laboratory has been given resources by NSF & NPRB to act as the archive for BEST & BSIERP datasets. We are prepared to accept your datasets and documentation. Note that we have provided guidelines for the data formatting and documentation that can be found as one of the data links listed above. There is specific information below on how to get the data to EOL and also notifying us that you have sent information. EOL will also facilitate the transmission of final datasets to the appropriate long-term archive for permanent archival.

Metadata Submission Form

There is a new metadata submission form located at: http://data.eol.ucar.edu/bersea/ Please use this form to submit the metadata associated with your dataset. After you've submitted this form, you'll need to ftp your data files to our server (see instructions below). The form will soon be updated to collect both data and metadata but at this time, use the form for the metadata and ftp your data files.

Data Submission Instructions

For FTP, you must be using an ftp client capable of passive mode and have that mode activated for this transfer to work.

For ftp instructions from a windows machine, click here.

UNIX Instructions:

ftp ftp.eol.ucar.edu                  (initiate connection)
anonymous                             (login as anonymous, no password required)
cd pub/data/incoming/[best|bsierp]    (must change to best or bsierp subdirectory before you can view files)
bin                                   (sets to binary mode for transfer)
passive                               (sets to passive mode; make sure this turns passive mode ON, not OFF)
put "filename"                        (transfer file, repeat as needed)
quit                                  (exits FTP)	
  

If the files are larger than 100MB each, we generally recommend that you send us a CD- ROM, tape, Exabyte or DAT would be preferred, with the data and documentation. Remember that a CD normally holds about 600MB of data. This process avoids potential problems with large file transfers across the Internet. If you are using a modem link on your computer, files larger than 20MB should be transferred via CD or tape.

It is very important that you include documentation with your data. Please upload this file separately from your data to keep confusion to a minimum.

Notification of Submission

Please send an e-mail to Don Stott (stott@ucar.edu) to confirm that you have submitted data and documentation to our ftp site or have shipped other media to us. Data submissions will be checked over for completeness of metadata and then added to the archive. The program manager will be notified when data have been received and are in the process of archival.

Further Information

Please e-mail Don Stott (stott@ucar.edu), Jim Moore (jmoore@ucar.edu) or Greg Stossmeister (gstoss@ucar.edu) if there are any other questions.