Citing and Acknowledging the PMIP 2 DB
Citing the database
Unless model data providers have contributed substantially to your
paper during the writing or the reviewing process, you do not need to
include them in the authors, provided that you cite AND
acknowledge the DB correctly.
When you write a paper using the PMIP 2 DB, you
have to cite the following PMIP 2 overview/reference paper:
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Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and
Last Glacial Maximum - Part 1: experiments and large-scale
features
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Climate of the Past, Volume 3, Number 2, 261-277, 2007
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P. Braconnot, B. Otto-Bliesner, S. Harrison, S. Joussaume,
J.-Y. Peterschmitt, A. Abe-Ouchi, M. Crucifix,
E. Driesschaert, Th. Fichefet, C. D. Hewitt, M. Kageyama,
A. Kitoh, A. Laîné, M.-F. Loutre, O. Marti, U. Merkel,
G. Ramstein, P. Valdes, S. L.Weber, Y. Yu, and Y. Zhao
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Note: you can access the paper at the following URL
http://www.clim-past.net/3/261/2007/
Standard acknowledgement
Please include (something close to) the following acknowledgement
in your papers, if you have used data from the PMIP 2 database:
"We acknowledge the international modeling
groups for providing their data for analysis, the Laboratoire des
Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) for collecting and
archiving the model data, ...add your customized acknowledgements
here... The PMIP 2 Data Archive is supported by CEA, CNRS and the
Programme National d'Etude de la Dynamique du Climat (PNEDC). The
analyses were performed using version mm-dd-yyyy of the database. More
information is available on http://pmip2.lsce.ipsl.fr/."
Notes:
- The acknowledgement is partly based on the IPCC Model Output
Acknowledgement.
- Make sure you include the date when you last downloaded/updated
your files from the database.
- Wondering if you should use aknowledgment or
acknowledgement? It seems that you can use both,
according
to Wikipedia...
Do NOT forget !!!
Thank you for citing AND acknowledging the database
correctly, but please do not forget the following:
- When you submit a paper, please send a pdf draft of your paper
to the webmaster and to the modelling groups you have
collaborated with.
The draft will be posted in the password
protected Drafts section of
the web site, so that the groups who have stored their model data
in the DB have a chance to make comments during the reviewing
process.
You are allowed to submit a paper before sending a draft
to the data providers, in order to speed up the whole publishing
process, but the data providers deserve to know how their data is
used, and they should be allowed some time to check if there are
errors in their data or the information concerning their
model. Even if we do our best to improve the DB, there may still
be errors in the DB, and we want to avoid having them in the
publications!
You are also invited to send major updates of your draft to keep
us up-to-date!
- Let the webmaster know when your paper is accepted,
and then when it is published (send the URL and a pdf of your
paper). This will make it possible to add your paper to the Published Papers
section.
You should also tell the webmaster to what project your paper is
related, in order to add a link from your project in
the Proposed Analyses section to the
associated paper(s) in
the Published Papers
section.
- Always make sure that you use the latest version of the data! If
you find something wrong, let the database administrator and
the models'
contacts know immediately. Each modelling group (not LSCE) is
responsible for the quality of the data it submitted to the
database. However, it is important that the quality of the
database improves over time and we therefore need to collect bug
reports, list them in the Database
History page, and ask the modelling groups to correct their
data.