TOAR Data FAQ

Contents:

• 1. General
  • 1.1. What data services are offered by the TOAR data infrastructure at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre?
  • 1.2. What data are stored in the TOAR data infrastructure at JSC?
  • 1.3. Who is working on the TOAR data infrastructure?
  • 1.4. How is the TOAR data infrastructure funded?
  • 1.5. What is the TOAR data team doing (and not doing)?
  • 1.6. What are the use conditions of TOAR data?
  • 1.7. What is the easiest way to access TOAR data?
  • 1.8. How much data can I obtain from the TOAR data infrastructure?
  • 1.9. Am I allowed to copy all TOAR data and build my own database from it?
  • 1.10. How can I engage with the TOAR initiative?
• 2. TOAR Data Portal
  • 2.1. What is the TOAR data portal?
  • 2.2. What data are available in the TOAR Data Portal?
  • 2.3. Why should I use the TOAR Data Portal?
  • 2.4. How can I register my data on the TOAR data portal?
  • 2.5. How can I report errors in the TOAR data portal?
  • 2.6. How can I access data through the TOAR data portal?
  • 2.7. What does the REST-API symbol in a repository entry stand for?
  • 2.8. How often is the TOAR data portal updated?
  • 2.9. Are you planning to list other data than ozone in the TOAR data portal?
• 3. TOAR Database user
  • 3.1. What is the TOAR database about and what are TOAR data services?
  • 3.2. From where do you get the TOAR data?
  • 3.3. What is special about the TOAR database?
  • 3.4. How much data is in the TOAR database?
  • 3.5. How can I find data in the TOAR database?
  • 3.6. What do you do in terms of data curation?
  • 3.7. What is the quality of the data?
  • 3.8. Can I filter data of specific quality levels?
  • 3.9. What is this thing about “global metadata”?
  • 3.10. What is the time resolution of the data in the TOAR database?
  • 3.11. Does the database also contain data from mobile platforms?
  • 3.12. How do I retrieve data?
  • 3.13. Who can become a registered user?
  • 3.14. What is the data format of data downloads?
  • 3.15. Under which conditions may I use the data?
  • 3.16. How can I cite the TOAR database?
  • 3.17. Do you make use of controlled vocabulary?
  • 3.18. What is the database schema underlying the TOAR database?
  • 3.19. Where can I get further support?
• 4. TOAR data providers
  • 4.1. How can I contribute data to TOAR?
  • 4.2. When will my data be inserted into the TOAR database?
  • 4.3. Where do I find the format specification for data submissions?
  • 4.4. How flexible are you with respect to the time format? Your recommendation is not exactly ISO and doesn‘t include seconds.
  • 4.5. Do you accept data in resolutions other than hourly?
  • 4.6. If we already submitted data to the GAW data centre. Do we have to resubmit this to TOAR?