EMail Data Entry

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E-Mail Data Entry

• Entering GLOBE Data Via E-Mail

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Email Data Entry

• To Send an email data entry
• On the To line enter GLOBE_at_FSL.NOAA.GOV
• On the Subject line enter DATA
• Begin your message with //AA
• End your message with //ZZ
• Notes
• All fields are case insensitive
• Refer to the E-Mail data entry instructions for
  details
• http//www.globe.gov/hq/templ.cgi?emaildata

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Required E-Mail Format

• TO GLOBE_at_FSL.NOAA.GOV
• SUBJECT DATA
• CC
• --------------------------------------------------
  --------
• //AA
• ...MEASUREMENTS...
• //ZZ

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Message Text for Measurements
Measurement Code
School ID
Time and Date of Measurement
Measurement Values
Site Number
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School ID

• Each GLOBE school has a unique school ID
• To enter data, you must use the unique ID for
  your school
• For practice in the training, we will use a
  special training ID - Dont use this one at home
• PRACTICE SCHOOL ID ZZZZTEST
• No password is required for E-Mail data entry

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Site Number

• GLOBE allows you to define more than one study
  site for each protocol if you wish
• Each study site you define has a number
• If you have only one study site per group of
  protocols, (for example one weather station),
  then simply put a 1 for your study site number.
• If you have defined more than one study site for
  a given measurement, you would enter the number
  of the site here.

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Format for Date and Time

• All measurements must be accompanied by the time
  at which the measurement was taken (NOT the time
  at which the measurement is reported)
• Time must be reported in Universal Time (UT), in
  the format below
• YYYYMMDDHHmm, where
• YYYY calendar year (e.g. 2001)
• MM calendar month (01-12, where January 01)
• DD day of month (01-31)
• HH hour of day UT (00-23, where 00 midnight
  UT)
• mm minutes (00-59)

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Missing Data

• For any missing fields use an X. For example
• PR ZZZZTEST 1 200012101215 7 1 X X
• SWTP ZZZZTEST 1 200012101237 N X 7.5 PN

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Comments

• Use comments to indicate special circumstances
• Comments are not required
• Add comments at the end of a line
• Your comment must NOT include any of the
  measurement codes (e.g. SWTP, CO, etc), or it
  will cause an error.
• Your comment may exceed one line
• Examples
• Air temperature with no comment
• ATM ZZZZTEST 1 200101270527 12 20 8
• Air temperature with comment
• ATM ZZZZTEST 1 200101270527 12 20 8 There was a
  fire near the school today that may have affected
  the maximum temperature.

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Study Site Location

• For all GLOBE measurements, you must specify the
  location of all your study sites.
• Some schools may wish to define more than one
  study site per protocol, for example to compare
  the hydrology of different parts of a lake.
• Site Location data must be received and processed
  1 day before you can enter any other data for
  that site.
• Once you have received confirmation from GLOBE
  that your site location information was accepted,
  then you can enter site metadata, and any other
  data taken from that site.

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Format For Study Site Location

• Field1 SL
• Field2 School ID
• Field3 Site Type (ATM-dd, SWS-dd, SCS-dd,
  SMS-dd, BIO-dd, GRN-dd, PHN-dd, LIL-dd)
  Atmosphere, Hydrology, Soil Characterization,
  Soil Moisture, Biology, Green Up/Down, Phenology,
  Lilacs
• Field4 Day of Measurement in UT (YYYYMMDD)
• Field5 Data Source (GGPS, OOther, DDefault to
  School Location)
• Field6 Latitude (decimal degrees)
• Field7 Longitude (decimal degrees)
• Field8 Elevation (meters)

TO GLOBE_at_FSL.NOAA.GOV SUBJECT DATA //AA SL
ZZZZTEST ATM-01 200102171636 G 35.8223 -145.3666
1509 //ZZ
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Air Temperature Study Site Metadata

• Field1 ATSSM
• Field2 School ID
• Field3 Site Number
• Field4 Day of Measurement in UT (YYYYMMDD)
• Field5 Are you completing or correcting
  information about a site, or has something
  physically changed about the site (
  CCompleteing/Correcting, UUpdating )
• Field6 Has obstacles over 14 degrees high (
  YYes, NNo )
• Field7 Has buildings within 10 meters ( YYes,
  NNo )
• Field8 Slope angle ( degrees )
• Field9 Compass direction facing up slope ( N,
  NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW )
• Field10 Height of the top of the rain gauge (
  cm )
• Field11 Height of the bulb of the max/min
  thermometer ( cm )
• Field12 Height of the clip in the ozone
  measurement station ( cm )
• Field13 Surface Cover of Site ( PPaved, BBare
  Ground, SGShort Grass, LGLong Grass, SSand,
  RRoof )
• Example ATSSM ZZZZTEST 1 200102171636 C N Y 7
  NE 180 155 140 SG

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Air Temperature

• Field1 ATM
• Field2 School ID
• Field3 Site Number
• Field4 Time and Date of Measurement in UT
  (YYYYMMDDHHmm)
• Field5 Current Temperature (degrees C)
• Field6 Daily Maximum Temperature (degrees C)
• Field7 Daily Minimum Temperature (degrees C)
• Example ATM ZZZZTEST 1 200102181636 17.0 20.5
  11.0

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Precipitation Rain

• Field1 PR
• Field2 School ID
• Field3 Site Number
• Field4 Time and Date of Measurement in UT
  (YYYYMMDDHHmm)
• Field5 Rainfall Amount (mm, T for trace amount
  less than 0.5 mm)
• Field6 Period over which precipitation fell
  (days)
• Field7 pH of Rain
• Field8 Technique for Measuring the pH value (PP
  pH Paper, PN pH Pen, and M pH Meter)
• Example PR ZZZZTEST 1 200102181636 7 3 7.8 M We
  started using a new pH meter today.

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Cloud Observations

• Field1 CO
• Field2 School ID
• Field3 Site Number
• Field4 Time of Measurement
• Field5 Cloud cover - NNo Clouds, CClear,
  IIsolated, SScattered, BBroken, OOvercast,
  OBObscured
• Field 6 If OB, Obscuration type, 0 absent, 1
  present (If not OB, put X)
• 1st character Blowing Snow 6th character
  Volcanic Ash
• 2nd character Heavy Snow 7th character Smoke
• 3rd character Heavy Rain 8th character Dust
• 4th character Fog 9th character Sand
• 5th character Spray 10th character Haze
• Field 7 If not OB Cloud type, 0 absent, 1
  present (If OB, put X)
• 1st character Cirrus 6th character Stratus
• 2nd character Cirrocumulus 7th character
  Stratocumulus
• 3rd character Cirrostratus 8th character
  Nimbostratus
• 4th character Altostratus 9th character Cumulus
• 5th character Altocumulus 10th character
  Cumulonimbus
• Example 1 CO ZZZZTEST 1 200102181636 S X
  0110000000
• Example 2 CO ZZZZTEST 1 200102191711 OB
  0000001000 X

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Example GLOBE Email Data Entry

• TO GLOBE_at_FSL.NOAA.GOV
• SUBJECT DATA
• //AA
• ATSSM ZZZZTEST 1 200102171636 C N Y 7 NE 180 155
  140 SG
• ATM ZZZZTEST 1 200102181636 17.0 20.5 11.0
• PR ZZZZTEST 1 200102181636 7 3 7.8 M We started
  using a new pH meter today.
• CO ZZZZTEST 1 200102181636 S X 0110000000
• CO ZZZZTEST 1 200102191711 OB 0000001000 X
• //ZZ