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This information is designed to help you appropriately credit the use of SPARTAN data in your
publications. SPARTAN is a grass-roots network run by individual scientists who share their
measurements as a public good. Thank you for making the effort to credit developers through coauthorship or citation. The success of SPARTAN depends on your generosity.
Each site has Principal Investigator(s) (PI) who is responsible for instrument operation. PI contact
information can be found on data charts and in downloaded data files for each SPARTAN site. We
encourage you to contact the site PI when data are used.
Data from all sites are analyzed at Dalhousie University for mass and composition. We also encourage
you to contact Graydon Snider (email), Crystal Weagle (email), and Randall Martin (email) when
SPARTAN data are used.
We recommend the following citation for use of SPARTAN data:
Snider, G., Weagle, C. L., Martin, R. V., van Donkelaar, A., Conrad, K., Cunningham, D., Gordon, C.,
Zwicker, M., Akoshile, C., Artaxo, P.,Anh, N. X., Brook, J., Dong, J., Garland, R. M., Greenwald, R.,
Griffith, D., He, K., Holben, B. N., Kahn, R., Koren, I., Lagrosas, N.,Lestari, P., Ma, Z., Vanderlei
Martins, J., Quel, E. J., Rudich, Y., Salam, A., Tripathi, S. N., Yu, C., Zhang, Q., Zhang, Y., Brauer,
M.,Cohen, A., Gibson, M. D., and Liu, Y.: SPARTAN: a global network to evaluate and enhance
satellite-based estimates of ground-level particulate matter for global health applications, Atmos.
Meas. Tech., 8, 505-521, doi:10.5194/amt-8-505-2015, 2015.
Publishing data from a few sites:
Please consider authorship for the site PI(s) and the following acknowledgement.
We thank the SPARTAN project for its effort in establishing and maintaining (site name(s)) sites. The
SPARTAN network was initiated with funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council of Canada.
Please send a copy of the paper to Graydon Snider (email), Crystal Weagle (email), and Randall Martin
(email) for a quick review prior to submission.
Upon final publication, please send a copy of the paper to Graydon Snider (email) and Crystal Weagle
(email) for posting on the SPARTAN website.
Publishing data from many sites:
If SPARTAN data are the main component of the paper than we encourage offering co-authorship to the
following PI’s: Graydon Snider, Crystal L. Weagle, Mark D. Gibson, Michael Brauer, Randall V. Martin
Otherwise, if SPARTAN data are a minor component of the paper, then a citation and general
acknowledgement can be sufficient:
We thank the SPARTAN project for establishing and maintaining the (#) SPARTAN sites used in this
investigation. The SPARTAN network was initiated with funding from the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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The Principal Investigator(s) (name) for this site are . We encourage you to contact the site PI when data
are used.
Data from all sites are analyzed at Dalhousie University for mass and composition. We also encourage
you to contact Graydon Snider (email), Crystal Weagle (email), and Randall Martin (email) when
SPARTAN data are used.
We recommend the following citation for use of SPARTAN data:
Snider, G., Weagle, C. L., Martin, R. V., van Donkelaar, A., Conrad, K., Cunningham, D., Gordon, C.,
Zwicker, M., Akoshile, C., Artaxo, P.,Anh, N. X., Brook, J., Dong, J., Garland, R. M., Greenwald, R.,
Griffith, D., He, K., Holben, B. N., Kahn, R., Koren, I., Lagrosas, N.,Lestari, P., Ma, Z., Vanderlei
Martins, J., Quel, E. J., Rudich, Y., Salam, A., Tripathi, S. N., Yu, C., Zhang, Q., Zhang, Y., Brauer,
M.,Cohen, A., Gibson, M. D., and Liu, Y.: SPARTAN: a global network to evaluate and enhance
satellite-based estimates of ground-level particulate matter for global health applications, Atmos.
Meas. Tech., 8, 505-521, doi:10.5194/amt-8-505-2015, 2015.
Publishing data from a few sites:
Please consider authorship for the site PI(s) and the following acknowledgement.
We thank the SPARTAN project for its effort in establishing and maintaining (site name(s)) sites. The
SPARTAN network was initiated with funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council of Canada.
Please send a copy of the paper to Graydon Snider (email), Crystal Weagle (email), and Randall Martin
(email) for a quick review prior to submission.
Upon final publication, please send a copy of the paper to Graydon Snider (email) and Crystal Weagle
(email) for posting on the SPARTAN website.
Publishing data from many sites:
If SPARTAN data are the main component of the paper than we encourage offering co-authorship to the
following PI’s: Graydon Snider, Crystal L. Weagle, Mark D. Gibson, Michael Brauer, Randall V. Martin
Otherwise, if SPARTAN data are a minor component of the paper, then a citation and general
acknowledgement can be sufficient:
We thank the SPARTAN project for establishing and maintaining the (#) SPARTAN sites used in this
investigation. The SPARTAN network was initiated with funding from the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada.