AMMA-UK Data Protocol

• Should AMMA-UK data be used to support a research study, it is essential that the AMMA-UK Principal Investigator will be made aware that the data are being used.
• It is imperative that the AMMA-UK Principal Investigator be consulted when suspicious data is encountered or when interpretation of data becomes dependent upon understanding the underlying technique.
• Any publication or communication based on or using AMMA-UK data – whether issued during or after the retention period applying to AMMA data (see bullet point below) – is subject to the clauses stated under Section 9.2 (Publication) of the AMMA-EU Consortium Agreement, which explain the procedure to be followed and provide details on the due acknowledgements to the AMMA Project and its funding by the EU Commission. In addition, the individual AMMA-UK investigators responsible for the measurements must be duly acknowledged, as well as their funding by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
• By default, data produced during the AMMA-UK campaigns will be considered as "confidential knowledge" as referred to by Article 9 (Intellectual Property Rights) of the AMMA-EU Consortium Agreement. In agreement with this article, access to AMMA-UK data will thus, in general, be restricted to all AMMA participants and affiliates during the data collection and for a period of time of five years thereafter, after which data will be released to the public domain. However, individual investigators responsible for the collection of a particular data subset may estimate that confidentiality does not apply to their data and opt for a shorter retention period of time, or for making the data public at the time of their archival.
• Access and use of processed core data collected on board the FAAM aircraft are ruled by the FAAM Data Protocol. Access to these data is public as soon as the data are available.