Data Management and Publishing Results

A cursory examination of all data will be done in real time or as soon as possible after the flight to determine the quality of the observations. A flight review and rough data quality evaluation will be written after each flight by the mission scientist. All investigators share responsibility for monitoring instrument performance and identifying problems.

Analysis of the data will be a shared enterprise. Wyoming will provide data from the standard instrumentation, FSSP-100, FSSP-300 and CCN counter. CSU will provide the ice nuclei and CN data.

• Continuous aircraft data will be in netcdf format.
• Cloud particle images from PMS 2D probe will be archived in Wyoming's standard format.
• Meteorological data (maps, soundings, etc.) will be archived at NOAA
• Measurements of ice nuclei and CN will be stored as binary records, synchronized with the aircraft data.
• Satellite images - type, source and archival to be determined

All investigators will work collaboratively to combine the data into case study descriptions of the wave clouds studied. Besides discussions and de-briefings during the field project, meetings will be held afterwards to review the cases, select the best ones for further study, divide the work load, outline and compose papers.

Publication of the results will be a cooperative enterprise and is strongly encouraged. All investigators are responsible for the analysis, interpretation and publication of the results. The data sets should not be released outside of the CSU-NCAR group until published in the open literature, unless some other agreement is made. None of the investigators will publish results from this study without offering co-authorship to the other investigators. Our intention is for the investigators to publish several articles on this study with different lead authors.