Considerable work had been done prior to the CLIMSTAN meeting. An important by product of the is work was an assemblage of web links to related documents. These links are included below. Persons noted in parenthesis Hve been responsible for the following pre-meeting tasks:
# All participants read the original observation standards report and a report from a meeting on climate data format held by the LTER X-root group.
Climate Observation Standards http://lternet.edu/im/climate/standard86.htm
X-Roots data meeting http://lternet.edu//im/xroots/aclim.htm
Lloyd Swift has made some suggestions for variable names and data flagging based on the suggestions in the X-root report. Lloyd's suggestions may be found at: Swiftnt . The principles behind these suggestions were incorporated in the final report.
There was a pre-circulation of review of steps already taken by climate representatives and their views by Doug Goodin. Doug's report to the Climate Committee is found at SOLArept
There had also been the preparation and pre-circulation of climate variable data dictionary (Goodin) found at: Glossary
There had been the preparation and pre-circulation of the ClimDB project progress report on climate data exchange formats, update algorithms and practicality (Henshaw) and
Most Importantly the
ClimDB information and prototype which can be found at:
http://www.limnology.wisc.edu/climdb.html
There had also been a Data Managers meeting on metadata from which a paper had been produced. This paper can be found at:
http://www.computer.org/conferen/proceed/meta97/papers/jporter/jporter.html
Persons interested in seeing the CLIMDES data base which resulted from an earlier project and contains monthly temperature and precipitation data for all LTER sites can find it at:
http://lternet.edu/im/climate/climdes
In addition a useful link which was identified at the meeting was to the survey on the management of electronically collected data within the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program - 1994 which had been made by Rick Ingersoll. It may be found at
gopher://lternet.washington.edu:70/09/newsletters,
Reports/ElectronicData/Update94
A working draft of the report/document resulting from the meeting is at: