CarbonTracker is an open product of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory using data from the NOAA GML greenhouse gas observational network and collaborating institutions. Results, including figures and tabular material found on the CarbonTracker website may be used for non-commercial purposes without restriction. We kindly ask you to acknowledge, cite, and/or reference CarbonTracker as described below.

• We ask that scientific work that relies heavily on CarbonTracker products is discussed with us before publication, to ensure proper representation of our work and co-authorship if appropriate.
• Please cite as: CarbonTracker Team 2018
• The DOI for CT2017 is http://dx.doi.org/10.25925/V3K6-5168
• Click here for the CT2017 reference in BibTeX format
• Click here for the CT2017 reference in RIS format
• For other formats please follow this link and click on "Cite" at the bottom https://commons.datacite.org/doi.org/10.25925/V3K6-5168
• Please use "CT2017" as the shorthand to refer to our product, not "CT". This identifies both the product and the release version.
• Note that the product is called "CarbonTracker" without a space character, not "Carbon ␣ Tracker".
• Please include our suggested acknowledgment text in your acknowledgments section.
• Boilerplate model description text provided upon request.

Example

...we compare our results to NOAA's CarbonTracker, version CT2017 (CarbonTracker Team 2018). In this work, CT2017 is ...

Acknowledgments

CarbonTracker CT2017 results provided by NOAA GML, Boulder, Colorado, USA from the website at http://carbontracker.noaa.gov.

Reference

CarbonTracker Team. (2018). CarbonTracker CT2017. NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division. https://doi.org/10.25925/V3K6-5168

"CarbonTracker CT2017 results provided by NOAA GML, Boulder, Colorado, USA from the website at http://carbontracker.noaa.gov."

"CarbonTracker CT2017, http://carbontracker.noaa.gov"