Hydrology and Earth System Sciences www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net 1027-5606 1607-7938 4 4 2000 10.5194/hess-4-669-2000 http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/4/669/2000/ http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/4/669/2000/hess-4-669-2000.html http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/4/669/2000/hess-4-669-2000.pdf 669 679 0000-00-00 Appendix: Data management and data archive for the HYREX Programme A. M. Roberts I. D. Cluckie L. Gray R. J. Griffith A. Lane R. J. Moore M. A. Pedder 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 </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>