All investigators participating in BB‐FLUX agree to promptly submit their level 1 (quality controlled preliminary) data to the BB‐FLUX Data Archive at University of Wyoming (UW), at the latest by the end of the six‐month period (1 April 2019) from the end of the field campaign to facilitate inter‐comparison of results, quality control checks and inter‐calibrations, as well as an integrated interpretation of the combined data set.
Level 2 data (final data) is to be provided by 1 June 2019.
During the initial data analysis period, defined as a six months period following the agreed submission deadline to the BB‐FLUX archive (1 October 2019), BB‐ FLUX PIs will have exclusive access to this data. This initial analysis period is designed to provide the investigators ample time to publish their results.
Affiliate scientists are those who contribute data or modeling products to the BB‐FLUX archive. Affiliate status is to be coordinated through the PI.
All data shall be promptly provided to other BB‐FLUX investigators upon request. All BB‐FLUX investigators will have equal access to all data. A list of BB‐FLUX investigators will be maintained by UW and will include the Principal Investigators (PIs) directly participating in the field experiment as well as collaborating scientists who have provided guidance in the planning and analysis of BB‐FLUX data.
All BB‐FLUX archive data will be considered public domain 12 months after the end of the field campaign (i.e., on 1 October 2019 and thereafter).
Investigator(s) who collected the data and the BB‐FLUX PI must be notified of the intent to use BB‐FLUX data well before any data is to be provided to a third party (e.g., journal articles, presentations, research proposals, other investigators). It is strongly encouraged that PIs responsible for acquisition of data, and the responsible PI for the BB‐FLUX dataset be invited to become collaborators and co‐authors on any projects, publications and presentations. Should the PIs decide to decline the offer of co‐authorship, their contribution should be acknowledged appropriately.
The following acknowledgement is suggested as part of publications that use BB‐FLUX data: The Biomass Burning Fluxes of Trace Gases and Aerosols (BB‐ FLUX) project is funded by the National Science Foundation under award AGS‐ 1754019 (PI: Volkamer). The acquisition of the xxx data was carried out by Dr. Yyyyy (name of instrument PI) using the zzzz instrument and was funded by wwww (if pertinent). The involvement of the NSF‐sponsored Lower Atmospheric Observing Facilities, managed and operated by the University of Wyoming, is acknowledged. The data was downloaded from the BB‐FLUX Data Archive, which is maintained by UW.