Guidelines for Publicly Archiving Terrestrial Model Data to Enhance Usability, Intercomparison, and Synthesis

Maegen B. Simmonds; William J. Riley; Deborah A. Agarwal; Xingyuan Chen; Shreyas Cholia; Robert Crystal-Ornelas; Ethan T. Coon; Dipankar Dwivedi; Valerie C. Hendrix; Maoyi Huang; Ahmad Jan; Zarine Kakalia; Jitendra Kumar; Charles D. Koven; Li Li; Mario Melara; Lavanya Ramakrishnan; Daniel M. Ricciuto; Anthony P. Walker; Wei Zhi; Qing Zhu; Charuleka Varadharajan

doi:10.5334/dsj-2022-003

Guidelines for Publicly Archiving Terrestrial Model Data to Enhance Usability, Intercomparison, and Synthesis

Volume 21 (2022): Issue 1

By: Maegen B. Simmonds , William J. Riley , Deborah A. Agarwal , Xingyuan Chen , Shreyas Cholia , Robert Crystal-Ornelas , Ethan T. Coon , Dipankar Dwivedi , Valerie C. Hendrix , Maoyi Huang , Ahmad Jan , Zarine Kakalia , Jitendra Kumar , Charles D. Koven , Li Li , Mario Melara , Lavanya Ramakrishnan , Daniel M. Ricciuto , Anthony P. Walker , Wei Zhi , Qing Zhu and Charuleka Varadharajan

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2022-003 | Journal eISSN: 1683-1470

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Submitted on: Jun 22, 2021

Accepted on: Nov 23, 2021

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Keywords:

data management,

archiving guidelines,

FAIR,

terrestrial models,

simulations

© 2022 Maegen B. Simmonds, William J. Riley, Deborah A. Agarwal, Xingyuan Chen, Shreyas Cholia, Robert Crystal-Ornelas, Ethan T. Coon, Dipankar Dwivedi, Valerie C. Hendrix, Maoyi Huang, Ahmad Jan, Zarine Kakalia, Jitendra Kumar, Charles D. Koven, Li Li, Mario Melara, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Daniel M. Ricciuto, Anthony P. Walker, Wei Zhi, Qing Zhu, Charuleka Varadharajan, published by Ubiquity Press
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