Flowing from recognition as a SOLAS project are the following benefits and responsibilities; they are only intended as a guide and are not a set of regulations.
Benefits |
Responsibilities | |
| - Provides the opportunity for participation in the development, planning and implementation of a collaborative international science programme | - Acceptance of general principles and goals outlined in the SOLAS Science Plan | |
| - Adds to the scientific value of planned work by providing complementary information; for example, by widening the range of studies and extending their spatial and temporal coverage | - Carry out a programme in general accordance with relevant aspects of the SOLAS Implementation Strategy |
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| - Promotes rapid communication of ideas and results, through meetings and publications | - Participation in the activities of the programme through its management bodies, and by assisting in its planning and development as a whole | |
| - Develops and tests standard methods and protocols for measuring variables, thereby facilitating quality control and meaningful data sharing | - Make data collected within the programme available to the wider community, in accordance with SOLAS principals for international data exchange | |
| - Makes available data sets collected in component studies and develops a common data management strategy | - Acknowledgment of the links with SOLAS in the products of the project (e.g. acknowledgment of SOLAS in scientific papers) | |
| - Gives the opportunity for participation in model intercomparisons | ||
| - Enables close working links with other relevant international programmes and studies |
SOLAS' data management policy is of key importance here. Developing a workable, effective data management system that is integrated with other IGBP and SCOR project is a high priority for SOLAS. The SOLAS Data Management Team is responsible for this.