CONDITIONS OF USE

These directories contain the model results of the TransCom-Continuous exercise. 
The scientific community is welcome to use these results in scientific projects, 
under the following conditions:

1) Please subscribe to the TransCom mailing list and send a brief email to the 
list indicating how you expect to use the model output.  Join the list 
(transcom@lists.purdue.edu) through 
https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/transcom 
or by directly emailing transcom-request@lists.purdue.edu with "subscribe" in 
the message space. 

2) If model results are used in a talk or publication, the modellers should be
acknowledged.  Suggested wording is:

"The TransCom-continuous model simulations were provided by AM2/AM2t (S. Fan, 
S.-J. Lin), CCAM (R. M. Law), CCSR_NIES (P. Patra, M. Takigawa), CDTM (T. Maki), 
CHIMERE (C. Aulagnier, L. Rivier, R. Vautard), COMET (G. Pieterse, A. T. 
Vermeulen), DEHM (C. Geels, J. Brandt, J. H. Christensen), IFS (S. Serrar), 
IMPACT (D. J. Bergmann, P. J. Cameron-Smith), LMDZ/LMDZ_THERM (P. Bousquet, F. 
Delage), NICAM (Y. Niwa, R. Imasu, M. Satoh), NIES05 (S. Maksyutov, R. Onishi), 
PCTM.CSU (R. Lokupitiya, A. S. Denning, N. Parazoo, J. Kleist), PCTM.GSFC (S. R. 
Kawa, Z. Zhu), REMO (U. Karstens), STAG/STAGN (S. Taguchi), TM3_fg/TM3_vfg (C. 
Ršdenbeck), TM5_glb3x2/TM5_nam1x1 (W. Peters, L. Bruhwiler), TM5_eur1x1 (M. C. 
Krol, S. Houweling)."

3) The following references may be useful when citing the experiment/data-set:

Law, R., W. Peters and C. Rodenbeck (2006), Protocol for the TransCom continuous 
data experiment, Purdue climate change research center tech. rep.,  
http://www.purdue.edu/climate/publications/-T3%5B1%5D.continuous.protocol_v6.pdf

TC-CONTINUOUS (2007), Model submissions for the TransCom continuous data 
experiment, ftp://ftp-kg01.eas.purdue.edu/cont_public.

Law, R.M., W. Peters, C. Rodenbeck, C. Aulagnier, I. Baker, D. J. Bergmann, P. 
Bousquet, J. Brandt, L. Bruhwiler, P. J. Cameron-Smith, J. H. Christensen, F. 
Delage, A. S. Denning, S. Fan, C. Geels, S. Houweling, R. Imasu, U. Karstens, S. 
R. Kawa, J. Kleist, M. C. Krol, S.-J. Lin, R. Lokupitiya, T. Maki, S. Maksyutov, 
Y. Niwa, R. Onishi, N. Parazoo, P. K. Patra, G. Pieterse, L. Rivier, M. Satoh, 
S. Serrar, S. Taguchi, M. Takigawa, R. Vautard, A. T. Vermeulen, Z. Zhu (2007), 
TransCom model simulations of hourly CO2: experimental overview and diurnal 
cycle results for 2002, submitted to Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

The web-site lists other papers that are in preparation.

4) If problems or potential bugs are discovered in any of the runs,
the respective contributor should be contacted prior to any mentioning
of the problem in public.