Terms of Use agreement for NA-CORDEX model output
Note: this Terms of Use agreement is based on
the CORDEX
Terms of Use, modified as appropriate for the NA-CORDEX data
archive. The major differences are that none of the NA-CORDEX
simulations are restricted to non-commercial use, the data is served
from a different data portal, and the data citation and
acknowledgements vary accordingly.
Users of NA-CORDEX output agree to the following terms of use:
- I will hold no individual(s), organization(s), or group(s)
responsible for any errors in the models or in their output
data.
- In publications that rely on the CORDEX model output, I will
appropriately credit the data providers by an acknowledgement
similar to the following: "We acknowledge the World Climate
Research Programme's Working Group on Regional Climate, and the
Working Group on Coupled Modelling, former coordinating body of
CORDEX and responsible panel for CMIP5. We also thank the climate
modelling groups (listed in Table XX of this paper) for producing
and making available their model output. We also acknowledge the
U.S. Department of Defense ESTCP for its support of the NA-CORDEX
data archive," where "Table XX" lists the models and modelling
groups that provided the data.
- I acknowledge the potential limitations of the data obtained
from this archive. These may include (but are not necessarily
limited to) errors in the models, shortcomings in the experiment
designs, the conjectural quality of the forcing scenarios used to
drive the models, and statistical uncertainty of model
results.
- I understand that although the model output has been subjected
to a quality control procedure, unrecognized errors almost
certainly remain.
- To aid participating groups in understanding and improving upon
their models’ behaviours, I will respond to reasonable requests
from the WGCM or from CORDEX data providers for feedback about my
CORDEX research results (e.g., reporting model deficiencies,
recording CORDEX publications, etc.).
- I will cite the NA-CORDEX dataset in my publications using the
information provided on
the Dataset Citation page of
this website.
