QC of T and S Profiles
QC of T and S Profiles
Scope
Includes discrete samples, sensor chains, expendable profilers, cycling
floats, undulating/soaring profilers and CTD
Summary
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Primary Standards for Consideration
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Argo Quality Control Manual, Version 2.2
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Coriolis Data Centre In Situ Data Quality Control - Mar 2005
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Controle Qualite Visuel Coriolis Version 1.1.pdf - Listed as a necessary
sub-component
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GTSPP Realtime QC Manual IOC M&G 22 Revised
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Quality Control Cookbook for XBT Data, CSIRO Marine Laboratories Report 221
- SCOOP System from SISMER
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Short HTML description
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Longer PPT presentation
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Manual
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Data Quality Control Procedure Applied to the M3A Buoys
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Procedures Used at AOML to Quality Control Real Time XBT Data Collected in the
Atlantic Ocean
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Argo UK Floats Real Time QC: Profile Data - Although extremely
short, and lacking detail, this concise list of tests is one of the most
comprehensive
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Quality Control and Processing of Historical Oceanographic Temperature,
Salinity, and Oxygen Data
Additional Resources
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GTSPP Realtime QC Manual IOC M&G 22 - Original IOC publication
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Manual of Quality Control Procedures for Validation of Oceanographic Data IOC
M&G 26 - Contains a group of disparate manuals cobbled together loosely,
with a common index to parameters. Possibly too old for current use,
although some sections could be updated.
References
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Argo User's Manual, Version 2.1 - Strictly from the user's viewpoint with
little QC process information, only results.
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Building a Global Ocean Profile Database to Estimate and Heat and Freshwater
Variability for the World Ocean - Extremely general description, but
contains some great examples of QC problems
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Salinity Data Management Best Practices Workshop Report - Generally
speaking, a good QA resource; but very little information directly related to
S profiles, per se.
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Quality Assurance of Real-Time Oceanographic Data QARTOD IV June 2006 V 9
- Only a small amount of QA material