Data Center Text
 
Definition
A brief description of the data center, including the types of data offered.
 
Syntax
<Data_Center_Text> Brief description of the Data Center</Data_Center_Text>
 
Specifications
  • Required field.
  • May be used only once.
  • Multiple lines of text are allowed, each line containing a maximum of 80 characters. Characters may be selected from the printable UTF-8 character set.
 
Recommendations
  • Should include background information on the data center as well as the types of data/services offered.
  • The total length could consist of approximately 30 lines.
  • Single space with blank lines separating paragraphs
  • Standard elements of style only
  • Capitalization should follow standard constructs. For readability, do not use all capital letters or all lower case letters, but use the appropriate case where applicable.
  • No right alignment
  • Acronyms should be expanded to provide understanding.
  • May contain tabular information
 
Example

<Data_Center_Text>
The Global Geophysical Fluids Center (GGFC) and the associated eight Special Bureaus (SB) have the responsibility of supporting, facilitating, and providing services to the worldwide research community, in areas related to the variations in Earth rotation, gravity field and geocenter that are caused by mass transport in the global geophysical fluids. Mass transports in the geophysical fluids will cause the following geodynamic effects on a broad time scale: (1) variations in the solid Earth's rotation (in length-of-day/universal time and polar motion/nutation) via the conservation of angular momentum and effected by torques at the fluid-solid Earth interfaces; (2) changes in the gravity field according to Newton's gravitational law; (3) motion in the center of mass of the solid Earth relative to that of the whole Earth ("geocenter") via the conservation of linear momentum; and (4) mass loading effects normally manifested in surface deformations and movements.
Website: http://bowie.gsfc.nasa.gov/ggfc/
</Data_Center_Text>

 

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This document should be cited as:
Ancillary Description Writer's Guide, 2012.
Global Change Master Directory. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. [http://gcmd.nasa.gov/User/suppguide/].