Help On Search

1. Search using any combination of the fields. Type text into the entry boxes, or choose one or more items from the lists.
2. Site searches (Coral & Sclerosponge, Ice Core, Paleocean, Paleolimnology, Plant Macrofossil, Pollen, Tree-ring) return a list of sites. GCM searches return a list of output or boundary condition files.
3. For Site Name(or Core Name) searches: do not enter wildcards; case is ignored.
4. For Calendar Year searches (e.g. Coral, Tree-ring) use negative values for years B.C. (e.g. -200 = 200 B.C.). For Calendar or Radiocarbon Year B.P. searches (e.g. Ice Core, Paleocean, Paleolimnology, Plant Macrofossils, Pollen) use negative values for years after 1950 (e.g. -40 = 1990).
5. List Box Mouse Actions:

   Click to Select

   Ctrl-Click (or Cmd-Click) to Select/Deselect

   Shift-Click (or Click-Drag) to Multiple Select

6. Use Reset Form to restore the initial or default state of the form. This can be particularly important thing to do, because selections from a previous query might influence the outcome of a new query in deceiving ways. When a query unexpectedly returns no results, you may want to Reset Form and rerun the query to verify that there truly are no matches.
7. Click on the matched site name or GCM file name to initiate an FTP transfer to your PC.
8. Examples:
   • To find sites whose name contains the letters bay: enter bay into the Site Name text box and click Start Search. This will return matches like: Abbaye d'Orval, Bayou Meto, James Bay, and Urvina Bay.
   • To find all Pollen sites for which W.A. Watts was an investigator: select Pollen from Data Type (unless you are using the Extended Pollen Search), then select Watts, W.A. from the list of Investigators. Make sure that nothing is selected in the Country list. Click Start Search.
   • To find South American Tree-ring sites with Ring Width data prior to 1500 A.D.: enter 1500 in the < textbox under Sites with Data for Calendar Years; enter 15N in the northern Latitude box; enter 30W in the eastern Longitude box; enter 90W in the western Longitude box; select Ring Width from the Measured Parameter list. Make sure that All (or nothing) is selected in the Country, Investigator, Species, and Standardization lists. Click Start Search.

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