Data citation policy

Each site has Principal Investigator(s) (PI) who is responsible for instrument operation. PI contact information can be found on the SPARTAN website. We encourage you to contact the site PI when data for a particular site are used. Data from all sites are analyzed at Washington University in St. Louis for mass and composition. We also encourage you to contact Chris Oxford and Randall Martin at SPARTAN.PM25@gmail.com when SPARTAN data are used.

Note

We recommend the following citations for use of SPARTAN data for referencing our sampling methods and data analysis techniques:

SPARTAN: a global network to evaluate and enhance satellite-based estimates of ground-level particulate matter for global health applications Snider, G. et al. : Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 505-521, 2015 , doi:10.5194/amt-8-505-2015.

Variation in Global Chemical Composition of PM2.5: Emerging Results from SPARTAN Snider, G., et al.: Atmos. Chem. Phys. 16, 9629-9653, 2016 doi:10.5194/acp-16-9629-2016.

Large global variation in measured airborne metal concentrations driven by anthropogenic sources McNeill, J. et al. : Sci. Rep., 10, 21817, 2020 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78789-y

When 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.

Please send a copy of the paper to Chris Oxford, Xuan Liu and Randall Martin at SPARTAN.PM25@gmail.com for a quick review prior to submission. Upon final publication, please send a copy of the paper to us for posting on the SPARTAN website.

When publishing data from many sites

If SPARTAN data are the main component of the paper than we encourage offering co-authorship to the following investigators: Chris Oxford, Xuan Liu, Yinon Rudich, Michael Brauer, and Randall V. Martin. ​