Data Release Guidelines
BSRN data can be made available to external users for bona fide research purposes at no cost. However, use of a particular station's data and the World Radiation Monitoring Center (WRMC) must always be explicitly acknowledged. Further interaction with the originating site scientists is encouraged because of the potential benefit to the data user. BSRN data sets provided by the WRMC must not be passed to a third party without the agreement of the WRMC. The above restriction shall not apply to any BSRN data which are made public through publication, presumably with some added value, and/or are incorporated into additional project(s) for wide release. In such events all BSRN data should be clearly identified as such in that release, with information as to how to obtain the original data directly from the BSRN archive. A copy of the publication is to be provided directly to the originator or preferably via the WRMC who will forward it to the originator. BSRN data must not be used for commercial applications.
Thus, all datasets retrievable directly via this pages are subject of the data release guidelines of the BSRN. Thus, they are read account restricted. Only persons who follow the data release guidelines are allowed to use the data. Read accounts for both - Pangaea and ftp access - can be obtained from Gert König-Langlo.
Data retrieval via ftp
Data can be obtained from the ftp-server: ftp.bsrn.awi.de. The ftp-server is browser-accessible via e.g. Mozilla. The Internet Explorer may fail. Access via an UNIX ftp-tool is recommended. The former read account is still valid. New read accounts will be offered to anybody who accepts the data release guidelines. Accounts can be obtained from Gert König-Langlo.
The ftp-server contains one directory for each BSRN station named according to the event label in the station listing. Within each directory GNU-ziped station-to-archive files are accessible. The files are named XXXMMYY.dat.gz with XXX=event label, MM=Month, YY=Year.
Each file is separated into logical records described in: Hegner H., Müller G., Nespor V., Ohmura A., Steigrad R. and Gilgen H. 1998: Update of the Technical Plan for BSRN Data Management. In contrast to the ftp-server at the ETH Zürich no derived quantities or quality flags are added.
