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.