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Question 1: How would you rate our web site?
Question 2: Do you find the site easy to navigate?
Question 3: Do you find access to data and relative documentation quick and easy?
Question 4: Do you find the home page informative about the content/layout of the BADC site?
Question 5: From the list below, please state which BADC web service you use most or find most useful.
Homepage:
| "About BADC" page | 56% found it useful |
| Met Office data button on front page | 36% found it very useful |
| ECMWF data button on front page | 48% found it non-useful |
| Chemistry data button on front page | 66% found it non-useful |
| Stratospheric data button on front page | 67% found it non-useful |
| NERC data button on front page | 56% found it non-useful |
| CAST | 73% found it non-useful |
Services:
| Trajectory service | 61% never used it |
| Browse archive | 47% found it very useful |
| Dataset documentation web pages | 56% found it very useful |
| Dataex Nasa Ames file format checker | 70% found it non-useful |
| Highlighted sites | 48% found it non-useful |
| Help page | 45% found it useful |
| BADC news | 43% found it non-useful |
| Conferences calendar | 57% found it non-useful |
| Contact BADC | 74% found it useful |
| Contact data suppliers | 52% found it non-useful |
| Registration | 37% found it useful |
Searching catalogues
| Search BADC datasets catalogue | 48% found it very useful |
| Search for Met Office stations | 62% found it very useful |
| Search links | 41% found it non-useful |
Question 6: If you have any other comments and suggestions, please write them below.
-The trajectory stuff is VU - Very Useful -Anabelle menachet is very pro. -the message for new stuff is veryusefull -Less restrictions on data for registered users -More data -In general, I find the Badc site intuitive and easy to use with good quality search facilities which generally will locate the required data. Overall, I rate this site as a top site for ease of data access, once registered. -Could the page asking for your password be integrated better. At the moment you head down one patch to get to the page to put your username and password in, and then go backwards to get to a point where you can get onto the other pages. Could the page with the password be put into the path you would take to get hold of the data? -German sites try to be presented in english too -WHY don't ENGLISH sites have any translation into German ? -An excellent innovation -I have previously made suggestions and comments which have been followed up - thanks! -It has been a pleasure to work with BADC staff. -One thing I, and many other colleagues in Leeds would find extremely useful (particularly those involved in UWERN), would be an effort to bring the high-resolution UK radiosonde data archive up to date. Currently there are no data at all from many stations, and others seem never to be updated. -I am very impressed with the helpfulness of BADC support who got back to my emails promptly and supplied me with data I asked for. -I have found the four years of global radiosonde data very useful. However a longer period of radiosonde ascents would help me a lot -Keep up the good work. I've always found the BADC very helpful and the access to data makes life so much simpler! -It should be useful a data extraction through date in the Met Office Stations utility, i.e., "choose all the data in Britain from 2000-10-21 at 12:00" -Anabelle is particularly helpful in responding to queries and getting the data that we need. Thank you very much! -When I tell colleagues about the datasets available they are often amazed and have never heard of it. I work in a Groundwater Protection group in a Civil Engineering department. -Never having used huge datasets before, i signed up to BADC and another unrelated one - with BADC I am now a high-speed whizz at the data I use, but the other site I struggle desperately with - your site is simple, but with all the data I need. -the data selection and download should be made easier -I was trying to download 25 years worth of weather info (from three types of file) into excel format. This took quite a long time as I couldn't find any way to do this other than to download each file individually. My problem would have benefited from the ability to select files and years at the web site and then start and leave the downloads running while I did something else -I would just like to say that in the past I have asked the staff at BADC to get some ECMWF data for me I found them extremely helpful and friendly. Therefore a big thankyou to the staff. -Finding which data is approprita takes time the first time -BADC is a fantastically useful site. Much of my research totally depends on its contents. -The "bulk download" of datasets for a given Met. Station is a very useful feature. -I am very happy with the BADC service. -I have found that the site is not particularly easy to navigate. this is probably because I am not a frequent visitor to the site and I forget which page I need. When I first started using the site, I found myself going from page to page until I eventually got to where I wanted to be. -The site wold be greatly improved by asking for the visitor to log on somewhere on the home page (In big bold letters that even I couldn't miss). One good aspect of the web site is that once logged on, I can easily access the data I require because there are pages that remind me which data I am allowed to view. -he data made available by the BADC is useful to those working in a vatriety of disciplines, not just meteorology, it would therefore be useful to have simplified explanations of the services supplied. I found that accessing the correct data was extremely easy and straight forward. However, it was slightly annoying that I had to look up the type of units used, because they were not displayed as column headings. For example, land surface data supplied by the Met Office did not tell me whether the units for wind speed were in mph, metres per second or knots. -it's a very good site, very easy to use for many purposes, without being intefered by cosmetic complications - congratulations! -Could you please indicate the source of the data set available and make a link to this source ? I regard that not all sources are included and sometimes, mainly when the data are gathered from the GTS system, we can not contact directly the organisation (whatever) who provide the data for questions about the data and other issues. -not too easy - less techy look and feel - and real orientation in terms of levels of information -understanding where I am and how to get to where I want to go for solar radiation in any particular county -This may be an "old" statement, but the last time I did look at the News section it was very out of date. But generally I find the service first class -It is a great service -especially for our MSc and PhD students -The web interface to download data could be improved (useful if when click on filename, automatically appears in fetch box) - A sort of calendar showing data availability at one glance would be useful -The BADC site serves my purposes well and although a 'light' user my job would be made inestimatably harder if the site did not exist. -As a quite recent user, I have never used most of what is proposed by BADC. But I found the site potentially useful, clear and complete in informations. -This is an excellent service and an excellent website - one of the easiest to use that I have encountered. Keep up the good work! -It seems BADC is in charge of many unique datasets. It will be very usefull for the community that you provide some DIF describing those dataset to IDN. I found only four DIF on the french node of IDN (http://idn.cnes.fr) . UK Meteorological Office UARS Assimilated Data Held at the British Atmospheric Data Centre . UARS, MST-Radar, TOMS, and TOVS/SSU Data from the British Atmospheric Data Center, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory via WWW . Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Data held at the British Atmospheric Data Centre . Improved Stratospheric And Mesospheric Sounder via WWW I noticed the great effort you made around AMES format (checker and viewer). Do you plan to give free access to users like me to those softwares ? Your site is for me the most userfriendly I have to use. As datasubmitter, I really appreciate working with you. -When searching for sites in the Met Office land surface dataset, it would be helpful if the user could indicate points on larger scale maps. It would also help if the boundaries of the search box were indicated. It is quite difficult to use the current system to find relevant sites in the uplands of Scotland. -It's not always clear where one should go to find the information required, or where to find the logon page. This is probably just me being slow! -Once I'm in the system I DO find it easy to find the information but if one needs data from several years it can take ages to download the relevant files. I'd like to see a facility for stating what data one requires and having the relevant files compiled by the system for download. e.g.: if I want temperature for Oxford for 1983-1993, it would be good if I could type that somewhere and have the data presented. -I think the BADC service is one of the most valuable facilities I have come across in years. It saves me a lot of time and effort in my research. -It did take me a while of using the web site before I understood how to find data sets easily. - Met data - quite a lot of the sites have sections of data missing (whole months for example), and some have not been updated with data from the end of 2000 and 2001. This can make getting the relevant data difficult. However (as mentioned before) Anabelle Menochet is very helpful in sorting out any difficulties! A very useful addition to the site would be a clickable map of the country with all the available met stations marked on it. -I could not select the records that I wanted from the met office records (sunshine, temp, rainfall, soil temp) without going into every single location. so I downloaded all the data and edited it myself. -I'm interested in radiosonde data of a single month from a larger region, so it would be easier for me (!) - to find the data sorted by date and less structured by country/site/year or - to have the files accessible by ftp. -I find the website to be well layed-out and very easy to navigate. All the information I require has been easy to find and access, thankyou. -Need little bit more description about the scientific programs, data avaliability and some example charts would be required
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