EPIC DATA POLICY - DRAFT

EPIC DATA POLICY - DRAFT

These proposed EPIC Data Protocols will be discussed at the March 2002 EPIC meeting to be held in Seattle, Washington where they will be finalized in accordance with guidelines provided by NSF, NOAA, and PACS/CLIVAR.

  1. All investigators participating in EPIC must agree to promptly submit their processed data to the EPIC Archive to facilitate intercomparison of results, quality control checks and inter-calibrations, and an integrated interpretation of the combined data set.

  2. All data shall be promptly provided to other EPIC investigators upon request. A list of EPIC investigators will be maintained by the JOSS EPIC Team and will include the principle investigators directly participating in the field experiment and the modelers who have provided guidance in the planning of EPIC activities.

  3. During the initial data analysis period (one year after the data were collected), no data may be provided to a third party (journal articles, presentations, research proposals, other investigators) without the consent of the investigator who collected the data. This initial analysis period is designed to provide an opportunity to adequately quality control the combined data set.

  4. It is the intent of the JOSS EPIC team that all data will be considered public domain one year following the end of the EPIC field experiment and that any use of the data will include either acknowledgment or co-authorship at the discretion of the investigator who collected the data.