Brief Instructions
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Coverage: | This database covers the 2002 Fall Meeting.
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Search Options: | Searches can be entered as natural language or Boolean expressions.
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Results: | Clicking on an item in the hit list will display the corresponding database record in full. Use the checkboxes to make selections for a subset. The fields and layout of database records are described below.
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Boolean Operators: | Keywords separated by spaces will result in a logical OR. Use AND to separate words that are both to be contained in the record, e.g. Gulf Stream will retrieve items containing either Gulf or Stream or both, which is the same result as searching Gulf OR Stream, whereas Gulf AND Stream retrieves first those records containing both Gulf and Stream.
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Truncation / Wild-card: | Use * for end-truncation, e.g. seism* will retrieve seismic, seismology, seismicity, seismogram etc.
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Authors: | To search for an author, enter the last name without initials.
To include initials, enter as a phrase (i.e. in quotes) in the form "Lastname, F M" (including comma)
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Phrase Searches: | To search for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in double quotes ("")( e.g., "coastal erosion").
To search for a hyphenated phrase, enclose the phrase in double quotes ("")( e.g., "S-wave").
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Display: | Abstracts are displayed as plain text; for a formatted (print) rendition, see the PDF.
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Types of database records
There are two types of records: (1) Abstract Entries showing details of each presentation, including time, abstract number, title, author, affiliation, phone, e-mail, abstract text, URL, section, descriptors; and (2) Session Entries, which include session code, location, day, session name, presiding session convenor, and introduction details, if any.
EXAMPLES
Fields
Field Field
Tag Name Example
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Abstract Entry search for AN = "U12A-01"
HR: Time 0840h
AN: Abstract Number U21A-01 INVITED
LO: Location MC 130
DA: Day Monday
TI: Title Needed: A Truly Interdisciplinary Approach for Assessing
Global Climate Change.
AU: Author *Kaufmann, R K
EM: E-mail Kaufmann@bu.edu
AF: Affiliation Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, 675
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215,
USA
AB: Abstract Our understanding of global climate change is enhanced by
linking theoretical and empirical models generated by
individual disciplines from natural and social sciences.
<...>
UR: URL http://www.agu.org
DE: Descriptors 1600
DE: Descriptors 6300
DE: Descriptors 6620
SC: Section U
MN: Meeting Name 1998 Spring Meeting
Session Entry: search for SS = U21A
SS: Session Code U21A
DA: Day Tues 0830h
LO: Location CC:112
SN: Session Name Incorporating Human Dimensions in Earth System Models I
PR: Presiding D Sahagian, Univ of New Hampshire; L Kohler,
Univ of Bonn
INTRODUCTION: D Sahagian,Univ of New Hampshire
MN: Meeting Name 1998 Spring Meeting
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