Browsing

Web Browse Tree structure is an alternate way of getting the data by a narrow down approach. Here, you have set of predefined hierarchical structures Example: Parameter/Source/Site, Site/Sensor/Parameter... etc  By clicking on the ‘plus’ image, a search is made for that particular value of the field. Example: by clicking on Parameter/Source/Site you would initially see a list of all Parameters(ABSORBTION, ACID DEPOSITION...), by clicking on any one of these parameter values a search is made to the next field i.e ‘Source’.  In this way by narrowing the options one can get to the desired dataset.

View All

View All take you to the brief page. It gives all the metadata records avaialable for the selection made.

Browse Tree screenshot

Obtaining Data

The full documentation at the data supplier's site will also contain a link(s) to the data files themselves, or to ftp areas where you can download data sets directly from the data supplier.  If your browser understands the format of the file (e.g., a GIF file) it will open it, and you can save it.  If the browser does not know the format of the file (a SAS(R) file) you can save it directly without opening it. 

If the supplier's machine is down, you will have to wait to retrieve the data set(s).