Data from this table was submitted to Denise Steigerwald (MCM LTER data manager) by Bruce Vaughn on a floppy disk. The file was in ascii text, tab delimited format, and can be found in the data manager's home directory on INSTAAR's Unix system. Once submitted, the data manager used Microsoft Excel and Access to fine-tune the file and get it in more of a relational mode. Changes made include the following:
* The 'YR/ID' field was renamed to 'sample#', and had the year portion removed. Information for sample year is represented in the date field.
* The 'Type' field was renamed to 'sample type', and written out as "snowpit" rather the abbreviation "P".
Once the above changes were made, the file was exported into comma delimited ascii format and MS-DOS text format for presentation on the web page. The resulting files (snptistp.dat and snptistp.txt) contain a link to this page.
Metadata was completed in 2016