D7.5 Agreement on procedures for virtual access to the ARICE cruises

With their global capability and diverse array of sensors, research vessels are essential mobile observing platforms for ocean science. Data collected on every expedition are of high value, given the high cost and increasingly limited resources for ocean exploration. Virtual access is the free of charge provision of access to widely used resources needed for research that are openly and freely available through communication networks. For non-commercial use, interested parties can have access to datasets and metadata collected by the ARICE icebreakers, when available, without visiting the research infrastructures. In this virtual data access, there is no need for a comparative selection of users and there is thus no selection procedure. This deliverable provides detailed information on where cruise information and cruise data can be accessed publicly; and if this data is not publicly available, whether there is an agreement to access this data.