Not exact matches
It would appear that respondents are seeking
information from a
much wider variety of sources than in 2010, with hospital websites featuring quite highly for the first time.
In the past, we used to do it with printed materials, but now technology provides access to a
much wider range
of learning resources available at all times and allows us to communicate
information in a
variety of media beyond word and text; so, looking up
information in the library in traditional ways is obviously not enough.
An ISCCP Web site (https://isccp.giss.nasa.gov) was created by a research group at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) to support ISCCP project functions, but it has continued to evolve to provide
much more and a
wider variety of information, data access, and illustrations
of data analysis results.
The
wide range
of studies conducted with the ISCCP datasets and the changing environment for accessing datasets over the Internet suggested the need for the Web site to provide: 1) a larger
variety of information about the project and its data products for a
much wider variety of users [e.g., people who may not use a particular ISCCP data product but could use some ancillary
information (such as the map grid definition, topography, snow and ice cover)-RSB-; 2) more
information about the main data products in several different forms (e.g., illustrations
of the cloud analysis method) and more flexible access to the full documentation; 3) access to more data summaries and diagnostic statistics to illustrate research possibilities for students, for classroom use by educators, or for users with «simple» climatology questions (e.g., annual and seasonal means); and 4) direct access to the complete data products (e.g., the whole monthly mean cloud dataset is now available online).