SCCWRP is a publicly funded agency and aims to make its data available to other scientists and the general public in an expeditious manner. Data is one of our main products at SCCWRP. We perform extensive quality assurance checking on our data and try not to release it until we are confident that it is free of errors. If you find an error in our data, please let us know so we can correct it. We hope you find the type of data for which you are looking. If you need assistance contact Larry Cooper.
Data Philosophy:
We feel that data without its accompanying metadata are not very useful. The metadata explains the methods used, nature, and quality of the data. We provide these files, zipped into the data files so you will be able to get them automatically. Please read these files before using the data. Often they contain caveats about suggested data usage.
Data Structures:
We strive to make our data conform to the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Project standard file transfer formats in their document dated July 12, 1995.
What is in the files?
The data files are zip files created in version 2.04 of pkzip. These files can be unzipped by various programs available on the web for the variety of platforms that currently exist. The files contain data files and metadata files. If there have been changes to the original data, the changes will be in the current version of the file, accompanied by a file called "CHANGES.TXT" which documents changes made through time.