Publishing Large Datasets: Experiences with Data Scaling and Hybrid Model Publication

The publication of large datasets poses significant challenges for research data management, particularly regarding storage, access, citability, and adherence to FAIR principles. We present our experience publishing a 25 TB dataset from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) covering October 2014 to June 2019 (MUSICA IASI v3.2.1) using a hybrid approach. A representative one-day subset was deposited in the institutional repository RADAR4KIT with a DOI, while the complete dataset is archived at the Large Scale Data Facility (LSDF) provided by the Scientific Computing Center (SCC) at KIT and accessed via a THREDDS Data Server (TDS) hosted by IMKASF at KIT. We describe the workflow, metadata harmonisation, persistent linking strategy, and lessons learned from this publication process.