TOAR Data FAQ

Contents:

• 1. Frequently asked questions about general aspects
  • 1.1. What are the differences between the System and the Service Components of TOAR?
  • 1.2. How do I get directly to the TOAR database infrastructre?
  • 1.3. How can I stay up to date about the TOAR Initiative?
  • 1.4. How can I publish the data I have used for a journal publication?
  • 1.5. Under which licence will the data be published?
  • 1.6. Can I make sure that the data is not published before the journal paper has been published?
  • 1.7. What is the scope of the data collection in TOAR-II, both with respect to the portal and the database?
• 2. Frequently asked questions about the TOAR Data Portal
  • 2.1. What functions does the TOAR Data Portal offer?
  • 2.2. Which data sources are linked from the TOAR Data Portal?
  • 2.3. How I can registered my data on TOAR data portal?
  • 2.4. Do you have a preferred format and metadata profile for data that is listed in the data portal?
  • 2.5. What is hidden behind the links to REST API in the TOAR data portal entries?
  • 2.6. Are you actively monitoring all the pointers in the TOAR data portal in case there are changes on the web pages or services hosting the original datasets?
  • 2.7. Since we are considering precursor information in TOAR-II, will we have links for that?
• 3. Frequently asked questions about the TOAR Database (user)
  • 3.1. Which data/metadata are available in TOAR DB?
  • 3.2. Where does the data come from?
  • 3.3. Where do I find the metadata catalogue?
  • 3.4. How do I retrieve data?
  • 3.5. How to interpret the retrieved data?
  • 3.6. How long will TOAR data remain available?
  • 3.7. Is the data historic or near-real time?
  • 3.8. Has the data been curated?
  • 3.9. What is the quality of the data?
  • 3.10. Can I search for a certain quality level?
  • 3.11. Under which conditions may I use the data?
  • 3.12. How do I get access to TOAR DB?
  • 3.13. How can I cite the TOAR DB?
  • 3.14. What about acknowledging the original data provider?
  • 3.15. Is there a GUI available for accessing the TOAR database?
  • 3.16. Where can I get further support?
• 4. Frequently asked questions about the TOAR Database (data provider)
  • 4.1. How flexible are you with respect to the time format? Your recommendation is not exactly ISO and doesn‘t include seconds.
  • 4.2. Do you accept data in resolutions other than hourly?
  • 4.3. If we already submitted data to the GAW data centre. Do we have to resubmit this to TOAR?
  • 4.4. What happens if we submit a corrected version of our data to the GAW data centre after you harvested the data from there. Do we have to inform you about this?
  • 4.5. Is there a place to upload measurement intercomparison data?
  • 4.6. Some data in TOAR-v1 did not comply with the CC-BY 4 license. Will data providers be contacted to obtain a new agreement?