How should I use the information and products available in the WMO Barcelona Dust Regional Center?
- Data, images and other products from the Barcelona Dust Regional Center available on this server may be used solely for research and education purposes. Products may not be used for commercial purposes.
- In case of establishing links to the contents of this website, kindly inform us via email.
- The WMO Regional partners cannot guarantee that the data are correct in all circumstances. Neither do WMO Regional Node partners accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data, or for any loss or damage arising from its use.
- Numerical data must not be supplied as a whole or in part to any third party without prior authorization.
- Articles, papers, or written scientific works of any form, that are based in whole or in part on data, images or other products supplied by the Barcelona Dust Regional Center, should contain an acknowledgement, giving credit to the Center every time data/images/products are used. A citation example is shown below, which should be adapted accordingly:
"Dust data and/or images were provided by the WMO Barcelona Dust Regional Center and the partners of the Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System (SDS-WAS) for Northern Africa, the Middle East and Europe."
In addition, it is strongly recommended to include the reference article per model(s) in the bibliography. - Any author using the products published in the WMO Barcelona Dust Regional Center should notify the modeller(s) about the citation once the paper is published and send a copy of the publication via email.