A hint for frequent oceanloaders

You can send mail to directly

The body of the mail must be in plain ASCII in all its parts. UTF-8 characters might cause problems.
But we won't ever be able to process html-formatted mail.

Compulsory lines at the top:

From : your@email.address
Subject: Ocean Loading Tides

Compulsory text on pink background. Optional text on yellow background.
The gully separates the name part of a station from its coordinates.
The three lines give examples for geocentric XYZ and geographic longitude, latitude, height.

The text must end with a long sequence of minus-signs, at least 72 of them.
reason for change: The MyEmail line has frequently been lost in the processing

The equal-sign after a keyword must be surrounded by one whitespace left and one right.

ReplyTo = email@addr.ess is optional.
Its purpose is to distinguish the return address for results (MyEmail) and diagnostic notifications.
In the case that results are not read by human beings, the ReplyTo address would report to one.

Token = 12345_20240231256162 if you are a registered user.
You will receive a string like the above when you create a request at the portal
https://barre.oso.chalmers.se/loading/l.php
Token strings consist of a random number + underline + the date and time of your login, 20 characters altogether.
As you can see, the example's date and time are impossible to be given by the system.

The Header line must be exact (a test against spam will weed out all mail not exactly reading like this).

The Station lines:
You can follow the instructions on the web to fit the columns. Don't use TAB to delineate columns!
Observe the blank gully at position 25!
Station names can consist of alphanumeric characters and any of @ _ : %   and in the first word also decimal points
123456789012345678901234↓Stations =\n          ↓ NAME1                      coordinate1 coordinate2    coordinate3\nNAME2 Monument            coordinate1 coordinate2    coordinate3\n 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890          1         2         3         4         5         6         7         8\n in Linux shells and perl = <RET><LF> in M*@#!SoftOn a UNIX/Linux system you can use
printf "%-24s %15.3f %15.3f %15.3f\n" $name $x $y $zAn alternative, shorter column structure is:
NAME coordinate1 coordinate2 coordinate3\nABCD_DOMENUMBR -1234567.890 -1234567.890 -1234567.890\n ABCD1234567.890 1234567.890 1234567.890\n ------------------------------------------------------- 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345          1         2         3         4         5    up to 55 characters in length, parameters separated by exactly one blankspace (no TAB characters please!), and ending with a line feed.
If you need to specify a monument code, please use the underscore-character to abut it (NEWEST!!)
Reason for change: Some mail composers appear to add other kinds of ASCII codes than the standard blankspace DEC32
Some users need domes identifiers. The underscore is for decoding purposes; in the result file, the two parts are split apart.

The first station line can also appear in the keyword line, as
Stations = NAMEcoordinate1 coordinate2 coordinate3\n
You can specify XYZ in metre as in the example,
or longitude, latitude in degrees (decimal point format, not minutes' seconds"), and height in meter.
At maximum 100 sites can be processed in one request.

For Model choose any of the following:

`DTU10`	`CSR4.0`	`EOT20`	FES94.1	`FES2022b`	`GOT00.2`	`HAMTIDE`	`TPXO.10`	`TPXO.9.5a`
`AG06`	`CSR3.0`	`EOT11a`	`FES95.2`	`FES2014b`	`GOT99.2b`	`NAO.99b`	`TPXO.9`	`TPXO.9.2a`
SCHW		EOT08a	`FES98`	`FES2012`	`GOT4.10c`		`TPXO.8`	`TPXO.7.2`
			`FES99`		`GOT4.7`			`TPXO.7.1`
					`GOT4.8`			`TPXO.7.0`
					`GOT5.5`			`TPXO.6.2`
								`TPXO.5`

Those written in purple are high-resolution models; requests involving them are processed at a Cloud installation.
TPXO.8 and TPXO.9 are from the Atlas family with very high resolution.
Check this table to eventually find a recently added model (first item in the line = your quote, second where it's processed).

For LoadingType choose any of the following
      displacement .
      nanoms2           (gravity and tilt in units of nm/s² and nrad)
      mgal               (gravity in units of mGal) (deprecated)

For GreensF choose among
     mc00egbc elastic Gutenberg-Bullen earth model (Bullen & Haddon, 1967)
PREM Preliminary Reference Earth Model (Dziewonski & Anderson, 1981)
     STW105         PREM anelastic, frequency-independent Q

For CMC choose any of the following
      0                 (reference origin is solid earth centre)
      1                   (reference origin is joint mass centre earth+ocean)

For OutputFormat choose any of the following
      BLQ
      HARPOS

If you like to see plots of the near-field coastline resolution, add a line
      Plot = 1
preferably before the station information. After processing you will find them here.
This option is only applicable with low-resolution ocean models, e.g. FES2004 but not with the high-resolution models FES2012, FES2015b,

UTF-8
We identify and translate a few common UTF-8 characters to ASCII whitespace.
If the system sends an error report that mentions illegal characters, we can certainly extend the translation.
We welcome notes in case.

If you send mail from UNIX/LINUX using sendmail:

sendmail -t < request.txt

where request.txt starts with

To: loading@barre.oso.chalmers.se From : your@address

Note the blankspace after "From". Continue as above with "Subject:" etc.