The following page provides some information on how to use our digital library portal. If the information provided does not answer your question, or you would like to provide feedback or even make a suggestion then you can send us an email using our online contact form.

Overview: Data sets are grouped into categories, and these are listed on the front page of the portal. The data sets available within each category can be viewed by clicking on the category title - this brings up the data set view page. This page provides a more detailed description of the category, and lists the available data sets. Clicking on a data set name will bring up the search view page. This page lists all the files contained within a data set: you can specify which data set attributes to display; you can sort on these attributes; and specify search criteria based on these attributes.

You can collect links (OPeNDAP URLs) from various searches into a links collection (which behaves much like an online retailer's shopping cart). The links can be stored from many searches and later downloaded as a single file. This allows easy insertion of the URLs into scientific applications such as Matlab or Ferret.