Search Tips and Examples to achieve better search results. In general, try and use discriminating terms that are likely to be found only in the documents you seek. The more words you give, the better results you'll get. Here are some examples:

1. Search by typing words and phrases:

   aerosol or cloud particle sampling instruments

   The search engine will find documents containing as many of these words and phrases as possible, ranked so that the documents most relevant to your query are presented first.

2. Identify phrases with quotation marks, separate with commas:

   aerosol or "cloud particle", "sampling instruments"

   A phrase is entered using double quotation marks, and only matches those words which appear adjacent to each other. Separate multiple phrases or proper names with a comma.

3. Use UPPER case to indicate exact match:

   NCAR Research Aviation Facility

   Search terms in lowercase will match words in any case, otherwise, an exact case match is used. For example:

   • aviation will find matches for aviation and Aviation
   • whereas a query for Aviation will only match Aviation.