Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP)
- Instructions to Data Providers

• Preliminaries
  
  To upload your data files on the BADC computer, you will need
  1. to have registered as a BADC user and got a password — if you are not a BADC registered user, please register here; if you are a BADC registered user but have forgotten your user ID and/or password, please ask help from the BADC support desk at badc@rl.ac.uk;
  2. to have been granted access to the CSIP archive — if you do not yet have access to the CSIP archive, please apply here.
  
  
• File structure
  
  

  The BADC is encouraging all UFAM projects and campaigns to deliver data in either NetCDF (binary) or NASA Ames (ASCII) format. NetCDF data should conform to the Climate and Forecasts (CF) Metadata Convention. Information on the inclusion of metadata is also provided.

  Advice on standardising filenames is provided on the file-naming convention page along with a list of common names used for instruments, locations etc. in filenames.

  
  

• Uploading data
  
  Data providers can upload their data files directly from their home computer into the BADC incoming directory, via the BADC Web based file uploader. This device can also be used to submit software and text files containing metadata or any relevant information on the project deliverables. Please have your BADC user ID and password handy. You will be asked to select the appropriate subdirectory.
  
  File transfer by FTP is also available for files that have been checked by the NetCDF format checker or NASA-Ames format checker. Please email badc@rl.ac.uk for details.
  

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