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Collaborative Research:
Biomass Burning Emissions Over Southern Africa

Principal Investigators: Jürgen M. Lobert, William C. Keene, and Paul J. Crutzen

Preliminary data generated by each participant during this experiment will be posted for use by all other participants as soon as possible. Quality assured data files from all participants will be posted for general access by the group within a maximum of 6 months after the end of measurement period (i.e., by 1 September 2001).

All quality assured data will be posted to the public domain on a suitable internet server no later than one year after the end of the experimental burns (i.e., by 31 January 2002).

Each data file distributed among participants should be self-explanatory and at minimum include the following information (e.g., in a header or accompanying readme file):

  • Institution, department, person, or group who generated the data
  • Date of data set version
  • Version of the data file (in case of later revisions)
  • Whether the data are preliminary or final
  • A brief description of the data and file structure
  • A brief summary of data quality (detection limits, precision)

    • The participant who generated a given data set should be offered the opportunity to collaborate in and coauthor the publication of any analysis in which those data are included. No data may be included in any publication without the expressed consent of the participant who generated the data.

    Participants should not be included as co-author on publications without their expressed permission.

    The project website is at http://www.JurgenLobert.net/projects/mpi_safari/index.html. Updates, documents, images and general information will be posted as necessary. We welcome suggestions for any content to be included:

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