Conditions for access to the AeroCom data server:

• A short project description of the planned analysis is send to AeroCom contact (michael.schulz@met.no)
• An account is opened upon sending a request for an account to michael.schulz@met.no and jan.griesfeller@met.no
• The project description is made available to AeroCom participants via this wiki page
• Results from analysis are reported to AeroCom workshops
• Publication-Coauthorship is offered to model and data author. See data policy

At first you will get a username and a password for ftp.aerocom.met.no only. The main purpose for it is to send us data. In order to get access to the user server aerocom-users.met.no as well, you have to send us a ssh public key since password authentication is disabled for security reasons on the user server.

First, we need to check for existing ssh keys on your computer. Open up Terminal and run:

$ cd ~/.ssh
$ ls
# Lists the files in your .ssh directory

Check the directory listing to see if you have a file named either Id_rsa.pub or Id_dsa.pub. If you don't have either of those files go to step 2. Otherwise, you already have an existing keypair, and you can skip to step 3.