1. Each data series should have at least three files associated with it; a Station Attribute Inventory file containing all attributes associated with every station in the data series, a Data Series file containing all monitored time series or climatology data, and at least one Citation file listing a bilbliographic reference for the data series. All of these files need to be plain ASCII files. The Station Attribute Inventory file and the Data Series files also need to have all data fields tab delimited and all character strings delinated by double quotes.

2. Below you will find a series of tables and examples which list all appropriate fields and formats for each of the above mentioned files. TABLE I. lists the fields that need to be contained within the Station Attribute Inventory file. Example 1. lists a portion of a properly formatted Station Attribute Inventory file. TABLE II lists the fields that need to be contained within the Data Series file. Example 2. lists a properly formatted Data Series file. Example 3. lists a properly formatted Citation File. Example 4. lists the necessary naming conventions for the above files.

3. Data should represent the years from 1967 - present. If data are not available for a particular station over all of these years, please give all data that were reported (as in the example shown in TABLE II).

4. Please fax a copy of the Station Description File for our records to this telephone fax number in the USA: (+1) 603-862- 0188 in c/o Michael Routhier.

5. Data may be transferred to the R-Hydronet Database in one of the following manners:
   1. Via ftp
      

      ftp r-hydronet.sr.unh.edu
      login: anonymous
      password: your email address
      cd /pub/incoming/r-hydronet
      put yourfile
      

   2. In ASCII file format on 1.4 megabyte (HD) 3-1/2" floppy disk, formatted for either PC or MacIntosh, and mailed to:

      R-HydroNET Database
      c/o Michael Routhier
      Complex Systems Research Center, Rm. 452, Morse Hall
      39 College Rd.
      University of New Hampshire
      Durham, NH, 03824
      USA
      

   3. Directly via the WWW page

   Please send an e-mail message to mike.routhier@unh.edu to notify us when you have sent the data, by either ftp or regular mail, and we will notify you when we have received the data. Please include your name, address, phone and fax numbers, and e- mail address. We may need to contact you if there are problems with the data or data files.

Example 1: Portion of a Station Attribute Inventory file for discharge stations in Brazil.

"BRA01"	"qa"	"Time Series"	"UNESCO"	"Obidos"	"Brazil"	"Amazonas"	-1.91	-55.55	37	4618746	1928	1983	55
"BRA02"	"qa"	"Time Series"	"UNESCO"	"Porto Formoso"	"Brazil"	"Parnaiba"	-3.43	-42.40	20	282000	-9999	-9999	-9999
"BRA03"	"qa"	"Time Series"	"UNESCO"	"Itupiranga"	"Brazil"	"Tocantins"	-5.13	-49.35	-9999	727900	-9999	-9999	-9999

Example 2: Portion of a properly formatted Data Sieres file.
"BRA01"	"pr"	1980	187	98	337	244	290	210	106	123	111	215	198	141
"BRA01"	"pr"	1981	215	251	273	302	240	182	123	153	150	119	156	186
"BRA01"	"pr"	1982	150	-9999	-9999	-9999	250	165	110	140	100	-9999	178	164
"BRA01"	"ta"	1981	25.4	25.2	26.1	26.2	24.6	25.8	25.0	25.9	25.6	26.7	26.2	26.3
"BRA01"	"ta"	1982	25.9	25.9	26.0	25.5	25.4	26.1	27.7	26.5	26.0	26.2	26.9	26.2
"BRA01"	"cl"	1979	-9999	-9999	-9999	91.3	88.0	73.2	56.3	74.2	67.3	89.7	83.8	87.4
"BRA01"	"cl"	1980	82.4	67.3	92.1	85.1	84.3	74.3	69.5	66.6	74.0	85.7	87.6	81.1
"BRA01"	"qa"	1980	120233	147443	171238	194071	210292	210538	199425	174971	137581	102505	93663	100921

Example 3: An example of a properly formatted Citation File.

Vorosmarty, C.J. and Fekete, B.M. and Tucker, B.A. River Discharge Database,
     Version 1.0 (RivDIS v1.0), Volumes 0 through 6.  A contribution to
     IHP-V Theme 1, Technical Documents in Hydrology Series. Paris, UNESCO,
     1986.

Example 4: Examples of a properly named uploadable files.