Citing and Acknowledging LASSO Usage

LASSO-ENA consists of a suite of data and associated documentation. As such, there are multiple ways to cite it depending on which portions are used. A peer-reviewed overview paper about LASSO-ENA has not yet been published, so the primary citations at this point are this documentation and the data itself. Note that this documentation is meant to be a living document that will evolve. Notable updates to the documentation will be tracked using version releases.

The recommended citation for this documentation is:

Gustafson, WI, SE Giangrande, S Endo, J Rausch, H Xiao, and D Zhang. 2025. Description of the LASSO-ENA Data Set. DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility. DOE/SC-ARM-TR-~~~TBD~~~, https://lasso-ena-doc.arm.gov/latest/index.html, https://doi.org/10.5439/2572640

The citation for the data files as a whole is:

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, 2025: LASSO-ENA Data Set. <<case date(s) used, e.g., 25 January 2019, or various dates>>, 39.0916° N, 28.0257° W: Graciosa Island, Azores, Portugal Central Facility (C1). Compiled by WI Gustafson, SE Giangrande, S Endo, J Rausch, H Xiao, and D Zhang. ARM Data Center: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. Data set accessed <<insert date downloaded from web>> at https://doi.org/10.5439/2572639.

At the discretion of users and depending on which portions of the LASSO-ENA data set are used, one can also cite the individual components of the datastream. Each primary file type has its own Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number, listed in Table 1 below. The subset file types contain groupings of related variables from the raw WRF output data to permit downloading of a subset of data without having to download all variables at once, as would be done when downloading the wrfout files.

Table 1 Digital object identifiers associated with the LASSO-ENA scenario.

Category Description	File Type	DOI Number
LASSO-ENA overarching DOI	N/A	10.5439/2572639
LASSO-ENA documentation	N/A	10.5439/2572640
SAM inputs tar file	samin	10.5439/2572661
SAM restart files	samrest	10.5439/2572658
SAM statistics output	samstat	10.5439/2572635
SAM 2-D output	sam2d	10.5439/2572641
SAM 3-D output	sam3d	10.5439/2573765
SAM 3-D microphysics output	sam3dmicro	10.5439/2572648

Inclusion of LASSO Developers as Co-Authors

Given the large amount of expertise and effort required to generate the LASSO-ENA simulations and analyses, we ask researchers to consider including relevant members of the LASSO team as co-authors when publishing results influenced by LASSO. William Gustafson, the LASSO PI, can advise which team members are responsible for the various aspects of LASSO-ENA. He can be reached at lasso@arm.gov.