We are encourages the research community to utilize the ScIce database for various studies of cirrus clouds. The only requirement in regards to using the database for research is to acknowledge our contribution in your papers/presentations by:

1. cite Borovoi et al. (2014) in a relevant section of the main text.

2. add the following description in Acknowledgement section or Data Availability section: "The scattering properties are obtained from the ScIce database (http://.....)."