(Interim) DATA MANAGEMENT POLICY:

CFCAS views the production of datasets for the general community as an important outcome of the research it supports; such data sets are required to ensure the widespread usefulness and lasting legacy of CFCAS-funded work. The Foundation expects grantees to collect, record, control and archive research data, and to make it available to the scientific and professional community in a timely and open manner.

Definition:

“A CFCAS data set can be observational measurements or model-derived output, either resulting from CFCAS-funded work or utilizing special observations generated in the course of the research.”

Links to Related Sites or Datasets:

CODIAC (Cooperative Distributed Interactive Atmospheric Catalog System)	http://www.joss.ucar.edu/codiac/
GEWEX	http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/GEWEX//data.html
GEWEX Hydrometeorological Panel	http://www.usask.ca/geography/MAGS/GHP/ghp.html
ICSU (International Council for Science) World Data Center System	http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/wdc/guide/wdcguide.html
ICSU (International Council for Science) Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)	http://www.codata.org/data_access/policies.html
MAGS (Mackenzie GEWEX Study)	http://www.usask.ca/geography/MAGS/index.html
NATCHEM (National Atmospheric Chemistry Database) – CEO	http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/natchem
NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) Scientific Computing Division (SCD)	http://www.scd.ucar.edu/
NCDC (NOAA) (National Climate Data Center)	http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/climatedata.html
PASDA (Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access)	http://www.pasda.psu.edu/flash.shtml
UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) Unidata	http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) JOSS (Joint Office for Science Support)	http://www.joss.ucar.edu/

Note: Researchers must credit the source of any data used.

March 2002