Welcome to the Electronic Rothamsted Archive

Note: the information here is freely available to anyone, but remains the copyright of the Lawes Agricultural Trust. The data held within ERA is password-protected. If you are not an employee of Rothamsted Research then access to most of the data held in ERA is subject to guidelines laid down by The Standing Committee on Unpublished Data.

Further information about ERA can be obtained from the Rothamsted ERA Curator res era@bbsrc.ac.uk

Classical Experiments available through ERA:

• The Park Grass Experiment.  Park Grass yields updated November 2005.
• Broadbalk Continuous Wheat.  Broadbalk wheat yields updated November 2005.
• Bibliography of papers relating to the Classical Experiments. (Public access - no password needed).

Other sets of data held in ERA:

• Meteorological data for three RRes sites in England (Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Suffolk).
  • RRes staff only can access recent Rothamsted meteorological records without needing their own ERA account.
  • Rothamsted Meteorological Records.
  • Woburn Meteorological Records.
  • Brooms Barn Meteorological Records.
• Data collected for the Environmental Change Network (ECN).
• see also the Environmental Change Network's WWW pages.
• and a graphical interface to the ECN meteorological data held at Rothamsted.
• WWW interface to the GCTE SOMNET database.
• Rothamsted Insect Survey Store Catalogue
• Integrated Disease Risk Projects (ADAS/LARS)
  • IDR4 - ADAS wheat ear disease data
  • IDR4 - ADAS foliar disease data
  • IDR4 - ADAS stem disease data
  • IDR4 - ADAS growth and green leaf area data
  • IDR4 - ADAS harvest data
  • IDR4 - ADAS met. data
  • IDR - LARS leaf data
  • IDR - LARS lesion proximity data
  • IDR - LARS met. data
• ADN - Appropriate Dose Network
  • Introduction and data access links

Further information:

• Program for extracting ERA definitions and data using a data dictionary.
  • This program is described in a paper presented at the EFITA conference.
• The EU ADDA Project (Agricultural Data Dictionaries and Analysis)
• A non-technical overview of the ERA project.
• ERA software user guides.
• Information for ERA developers (private to Bio-Informatics and ERA developers).