HESS Hydrology and Earth System Sciences HESS Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 1607-7938 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/hess-4-669-2000 Appendix: Data management and data archive for the HYREX Programme Roberts A. M. 1 5 Cluckie I. D. 2 Gray L. 3 Griffith R. J. 2 Lane A. 2 Moore R. J. 1 Pedder M. A. 4 Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, UK University of Bristol, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TR, UK British Atmospheric Data Centre, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxon, OX11 0QX, UK University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading, RG6 6BB, UK e-mail for corresponding author: rm@ceh.ac.uk 31 12 2000 4 4 669 679 Copyright: © 2000 A. M. Roberts et al. 2000 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ This article is available from https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/4/669/2000/hess-4-669-2000.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/4/669/2000/hess-4-669-2000.pdf

</b>Since the mid 1980s, changes in political imperatives plus technological changes in computer hardware and software have heightened the awareness of the economic value and importance of quality datasets to scientific research. The Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC) interdisciplinary Thematic and Special Topic Programmes have highlighted the need for a coherent data management policy to provide and preserve these quality datasets for posterity. The Hydrological Radar EXperiment (HYREX) Special Topic Programme brought together multi-disciplinary researchers from UK public sector laboratories and universities. In this paper, the HYREX data management strategy, its problems and its solutions are discussed. The HYREX data archive, situated at NERC’s British Atmospheric Data Centre, is described.</p> <p style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Keywords: </b>radar, data, archive, web, storm, flood</p>