Quality Control
Quality Control
Product-oriented actions, systems and methods aimed at measuring the
quality of products and services to insure that they meet minimum requirements.
Scope
Scope: Will not include process-oriented, quality assurance documents, or
shipboard and laboratory manuals and methods. Concerned only with the primary
data products, i.e. "dry," shore-side data values reported through various
systems to data centers.
Data Types
- Historical archives
- Contemporary research and surveys
- So-called "rapid mode" operational dissemination (usually with automated
but not expert processing
- So-called "delayed mode" operational dissemination (usually expertly
processed after rapid mode dissemination)
Value Ranges
-
Value Ranges for Ocean Data Summary page in OceanTeacher including some
readily-found examples
-
Manual of Quality Control Procedures for Validation of Oceanographic Data IOC
M&G 26 - Excellent global ranges table beginning on page 241
