EPIC DATA SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

EPIC DATA SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS



An EPIC Data Management World Wide Web (WWW) page has been created and is accessible from the EPIC "home" page or directly located at: http://www.joss.ucar.edu/epic/dm/ . This page contains relevant links to project and data documentation, distributed data access, and other collaborating projects' data sets.

An initial master list of all EPIC international data sets (with links) has been compiled to provide easy access to all EPIC data sets (both operational and research). Data sets are grouped by platform and sorted by data type (i.e., aerosol, chemistry, meteorology, radiation, etc.). This list will be updated frequently. It is linked from the EPIC data management WWW page or is available directly at: http://www.joss.ucar.edu/epic/dm/data_access_frame.html .

If you collected data for EPIC, please review this list to verify that your data set(s) are properly named with the appropriate Principal Investigators (PIs) identified. Please e-mail any corrections, additions, or deletions directly to meitin@ucar.edu. If you already have your data sets available on-line, please provide the WWW link or FTP access information. Once your data set (with metadata) is available, a link will be provided from the master list WWW page along with a submission date to track future data set upgrades or revisions (if needed).

Please submit your data set(s) (including accompanying metadata or documentation files) to the U.S. EPIC Long-term Data Archive at UCAR/Joint Office for Science Support (JOSS). Data set (and metadata) submission guidelines are available from the WWW EPIC Data Management Page or by direct link to: http://www.joss.ucar.edu/epic/dm/data_doc.html .

To expedite matters, the JOSS has established an anonymous FTP capability to accept your EPIC data set(s). The Internet address is:

It is very important to send an e-mail to meitin@ucar.edu, indicating that the data file(s) have been FTPed, along with the file(s) names, data contact information, any data restrictions, and appropriate file documentation (i.e., data formats, descriptions, acknowledgments, and metadata). Documentation files may be e-mailed to meitin@ucar.edu directly if preferred. If password protection is required for these data, please indicate this at the time of submission. You will receive a unique "user ID" and "password" that can be changed at any time upon request. For users without direct Internet access, or if your data set(s) are too large to FTP, you may send digital file(s) on magnetic or optical media (with documentation) by conventional mail to the JOSS shipping address below.

Thank you very much for your assistance in providing final data to the EPIC archive. Feel free to contact me should you encounter any problems or have any questions.

José Meitín
EPIC Data Manager

José Meitín
NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory
Telephone: (303)497-8168
Internet: meitin@ucar.edu

Mailing address:
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, Colorado, USA 80307



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Shipping Address:
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