DOI Guidance for Datastreams

To make it possible for scientists to cite Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility data in their publications, ARM has created Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) at the ARM data product level.

For example: for Balloon-borne sounding system (SONDEWNPN) measurements, DOIs were assigned for each of the available output datastreams and also for the value-added product (VAP) datastreams, creating approximately 15 DOIs when all sites are considered.

The same approach will be followed for all the routine ARM datastreams. A similar strategy will be applied for most of the field campaign data when DOIs are linked to the PI-instrument subdirectories.

The process of assigning DOIs is ongoing, so all data products may not currently have DOIs.

Several citation formats are possible using DOIs. The format may depend on the journal or publication requirements, but at a minimum, ARM encourages users to include ARM datastream DOIs with temporal and geospatial information and date accessed as part of the data citation.

As a general rule, ARM recommends the following format when citing ARM data:

• Author
• Original publication date
• Update period, if applicable (daily, monthly, quarterly, yearly, etc.)
• Datastream name
• Dates used
• Location accessed (latitude/longitude, site name, and facility identifier)
• Editor(s) or compiler(s)
• Publisher
• Place of publication
• Date accessed (critical for ARM data, as it determines which version of the data was accessed)
• DOI

1. Single datastream, single site, single data range: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. 1994, updated daily. Balloon-borne sounding system (SONDEWNPN). Oct. 2010–March 2011, 36° 36′ 18.0″ N, 97° 29′ 6.0″ W: Southern Great Plains Central Facility (C1). Compiled by R Coulter, J Prell, M Ritsche, and D Holdridge. ARM Data Center: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. Data set accessed 2011-04-13 at http://dx.doi.org/10.5439/1021460.
2. Single datastream, single site, multiple date ranges: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. 1994, updated daily. Balloon-borne sounding system (SONDEWNPN). Oct. 2008–March 2008, Oct. 2009–March 2009, Oct. 2010–March 2011, 36° 36′ 18.0″ N, 97° 29′ 6.0″ W: Southern Great Plains Central Facility (C1). Compiled by R Coulter, J Prell, M Ritsche, and D Holdridge. ARM Data Center: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. Data set accessed 2011-04-13 at http://dx.doi.org/10.5439/1021460.
3. Single datastream, multiple sites, single date range: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. 1994, updated daily. Balloon-borne sounding system (SONDEWNPN). Oct. 2010–March 2011, 2° 3′ 39.64″ S, 147° 25′ 31.43″ E; 0° 31′ 15.6″ S, 166° 54′ 57.60″ E; 12° 25′ 28.56″ S, 130° 53′ 29.75″ E: Tropical Western Pacific C1, C2, C3. Compiled by R Coulter, J Prell, M Ritsche, and D Holdridge. ARM Data Center: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. Data set accessed 2011-04-13 at http://dx.doi.org/10.5439/1021460.
4. Single datastream, single site, single data range, specific measurement extracted: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. 1994, updated daily. Balloon-borne sounding system (SONDEWNPN). Oct. 2010–March 2011, 36° 36′ 18.0″ N, 97° 29′ 6.0″ W: Southern Great Plains Central Facility (C1), relative humidity. Compiled by R Coulter, J Prell, M Ritsche, and D Holdridge. ARM Data Center: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. Data set accessed 2011-04-13 at http://dx.doi.org/10.5439/1021460.

If, for some reason, it is necessary to cite the datastream editors/compilers as the author, the following format is recommended:

Coulter, Richard, Jenni Prell, Michael Ritsche, and Donna Holdridge. 1994, updated daily. Balloon-borne sounding system (SONDEWNPN). Oct 2010–March 2011, 36° 36′ 18.0″ N, 97° 29′ 6.0″ W: Southern Great Plains Central Facility (C1). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility Data Center: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. Data set accessed 2011-04-13 at http://dx.doi.org/10.5439/1021460.