Consortium Beneficiary number Beneficiary name Beneficiary short name Country Project entry month Project exit month 1 (Coordinator) SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL STFC United Kingdom 1 42 2 NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS NKUA Greece 1 42 3 EISCAT SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION EISCAT Sweden 1 42 4 DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV DLR Germany 1 42 5 ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA INGV Italy 1 42 6 WATERMANN JUERGEN FRIEDRICH WILHELM JFWCONSULT France 1 42 7 CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS-IPAG France 1 42 8 ATHENA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTER IN INFORMATION COMMUNICATION & KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGIES ATHENA RC Greece 1 42 9 OULUN YLIOPISTO uOulu Finland 1 42 10 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON UCL United Kingdom 1 42 11 MET OFFICE MO United Kingdom 1 42 12 THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM UB United Kingdom 1 42 13 INSTITUT D'AERONOMIE SPATIALE DE BELGIQUE IASB Belgium 1 42 14 CENTRUM BADAN KOSMICZNYCH POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK SRC PAS Poland 1 42 15 DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET DTU Denmark 1 42 16 UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE UIT Norway 1 42 17 ILMATIETEEN LAITOS IL Finland 1 42 18 UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER ULEIC United Kingdom 1 42 19 Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ Germany 1 42 20 KONINKLIJKE STERRENWACHT VAN BELGIE ORB Belgium 1 42 21 DH CONSULTANCY BVBA DH CONSULTANCY Belgium 1 42 22 LOWELL DIGISONDE INTERNATIONAL LLC LDI United States 1 42 Summary This document is the User’s Manual of ESPAS portal. It presents a detailed description of the ESPAS portal and its functionalities with examples and screen shots for the regular user. This manual is written and edited by:
1.3.1 Forgot Password In case you have forgotten your password, then go to the “Home” page and click the LOG IN link in the top right menu bar. At the “Login” page, click the Forgot your password?link. Provide your e-mail address and click Submit. A message is presented that confirms your password reset request and an e-mail has been sent to you with instructions on how to reset your password. Check your e-mail. An e-mail from the sender “support@espas-fp7.eu” has been sent that has a link in order to reset your password. Click on that link. In the reset password page, give your new password twice in the appropriate fields and press Reset. Your password has been reset and you are automatically logged in the ESPAS and redirected to the My Account → My personal info page, in case you want to edit your information. Note the “Hello, name” that is presented in the top right menu, that confirms your logged in status.
In order to request for download of dataset files, click the Dataset files option from the Download drop down menu. You will be prompted to log in the ESPAS portal, if you are not already logged in. Note that the download always refers to the data from the Observation Collections currently presented at the “Results”/”Location Results” page. The “Dataset Files Download” page opens in a pop up window. You may give a name to your download request. If you leave it empty, the default name will be the submission date/time of the request. You should tick the box “I agree to all the Licences” and click the Download button in order to submit your download request. See also section “Download of Data Files" for an example on how to perform a download of data files request. In order to request for download of data values, click the Data values option from the Download drop down menu. You will be prompted to log in the ESPAS portal, if you are not already logged in. Note that the download always refers to the data from the Observation Collections currently presented at the “Results”/”Location Results” page.
your browser to save this file locally on your computer. In order to view/download the data values in the SOS – SWE format, click the (XML) option of the Get Data as drop down menu. The data values are presented in a new tab/window of your browser in the XML format that corresponds to the SOS response in SWE format. You can use the “Save Page as” of your browser to save this file locally on your computer. In order to view a plot of the data values, click the Linear plot option of the Get Plot Data as drop down menu. The plot of the downloaded data values open in a new pop up window. You can select any area to zoom. You can save the plot locally on your computer by clicking the button at the top left corner and then selecting the preferable format.