Contributing Data
You can contribute your data to the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology (WDS Paleo), and NOAA will permanently archive it. Contributing your data will allow you to satisfy obligations to publishers and funding agencies, make your data freely and permanently available without restrictions, have your data discovered and used by colleagues and others, and may increase the citation rate of your associated articles.
Instructions for Contributing Data
Data contributions should consist of metadata and one or more data tables including a chronology table, if applicable, as well as raw data and reconstructions. Contribute data and metadata using one of the contribution templates listed below.
Data Synthesis Projects: WDS-Paleo requests that leaders of synthesis projects have their designated liaison contact WDS-Paleo staff (paleo@noaa.gov) early during research and development to speak about topics including appropriate data formats and the use of standard controlled vocabularies for defining terms. There is a new Synthesis template available below to allow contributors to provide us the metadata and data from the records used in a synthesis project. The final product data from a synthesis project can be contributed using our standard contribution template.
Please contact us at either 303-497-6280 or paleo@noaa.gov for any questions or further assistance.
General Instructions
Instructions for Tree-Ring Data
Instructions for Fire History Data
Instructions for Chronology Tables
Contribution Templates and Controlled Lists
- Text-based (UTF8) Data Contribution Template
- Example Text-based (UTF8) Data Contribution Templates with Instructions
- Microsoft Excel Data Contribution Template
- Microsoft Excel Data Synthesis Project Contribution Template
- Microsoft Excel Data Contribution Template for IMPD Charcoal-Based Fire History Data
- Microsoft Excel Data Contribution Template for IMPD Tree-Ring-Based Fire History Data
- Variable Naming Guide
- Variable Terms and Definitions (PaST Thesaurus)
- Parameter Keywords
- Tree Species Codes
- US National Science Foundation (NSF) Data Management Plan as a fillable Microsoft Word document.