@article{6898, author = {C. M. Roach and M. Walters and R. V. Budny and F. Imbeaux and T. W. Fredian and M. Greenwald and J. A. Stillerman and D. A. Alexander and J. Carlsson and J. R. Cary and F. Ryter and J. Stober and P. Gohil and C. Greenfield and M. Murakami and G. Bracco and B. Esposito and M. Romanelli and V. Parail and P. Stubberfield and I. Voitsekhovitch and C. Brickley and A. R. Field and Y. Sakamoto and T. Fujita and T. Fukuda and N. Hayashi and G. M. D. Hogeweij and A. Chudnovskiy and N. A. Kinerva and C. E. Kessel and T. Aniel and G. T. Hoang and J. Ongena and E. J. Doyle and W. A. Houlberg and A. R. Polevoi}, title = {The 2008 Public Release of the International Multi-tokamak Confinement Profile Database}, abstract = {This paper documents the public release PR08 of the International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) profile database, which should be of particular interest to the magnetic confinement fusion community. Data from a wide variety of interesting discharges from many of the world's leading tokamak experiments are now made available in PR08, which also includes predictive simulations of an initial set of operating scenarios for ITER. In this paper we describe the discharges that have been included and the tools that are available to the reader who is interested in accessing and working with the data. Most discharge descriptions refer to more detailed previous publications. In addition, we review physics analyses that have already made use of the profile database discharges. Public access to PR08 data is unconditional, but this paper should be cited by any publication that makes use of PR08 data.}, year = {2008}, journal = {Nuclear Fusion}, volume = {48}, number = {12}, pages = {19}, month = {Dec}, isbn = {0029-5515}, url = {://000261696500003 }, note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 383TNTimes Cited: 0Cited Reference Count: 174}, language = {English}, }