Repository of community practices in Ocean Research, Applications and Data/Information Management
⇒ IOC: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. Except IODE: Recent submissions
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Potentially harmful microalgae of the western Indian Ocean: a guide based on a preliminary survey.
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Guide to best practices for ocean acidification research and data reporting. Addendum 2015.
(IAEA Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre, Monaco, 2015)This addendum provides critical information and links to complementary resources for users of the Guide to Best Practices in Ocean Acidification Research and Data Reporting (Eds: Riebesell U., ... -
Guide to best practices for ocean acidification research and data reporting. [reprinted edition including erratum]
(Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2011)Ocean acidification is an undisputed fact. The ocean presently takes up one-fourth of the carbon CO2 emitted to the atmosphere from human activities. As this CO2 dissolves in the surface ocean, it reacts with seawater ... -
IOC Strategic Plan for Oceanographic Data and Information Management (2013-2016). [SUPERSEDED by http://hdl.handle.net/11329/345]
(UNESCO, Paris, France, 2013)The IOC Data and Information Management Strategy is for all data collected in IOC programmes. The vision is for “A comprehensive and integrated ocean data and information system, serving the broad and diverse needs of IOC ... -
Manual on Sea-level Measurements and Interpretation, Volume V: Radar Gauges. [includes Supplement Practical Experiences]
(Intergovernmental Oceanographic Comission of UNESCO, Paris, France, 2016)Volume 5 which is devoted specifically to ‘Radar Tide Gauges’. Radar range finders have been used in industry (where they measure the levels of liquids in tanks) and hydrology (for measuring river, lake and reservoir ... -
Real-time Coastal Observing Systems for Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Harmful Algal Blooms: theory, instrumentation and modelling.
(Unesco, Paris, France, 2008)The proliferation of harmful phytoplankton in marine ecosystems can cause massive fish kills, contaminate seafood with toxins, impact local and regional economies and dramatically affect ecological balance. Real-time ... -
Guide for designing and implementing a plan to monitor toxin-producing microalgae. 2nd Edition.
(Unesco & IAEA, Paris, France & Vienna, Austria, 2016)The first edition of this manual was first published in 2011 in Spanish. Pigmented phytoplankton is the main primary producer and constitutes the foundation of the marine food webs. Blooms, the explosive growth of ... -
Microscopic and molecular methods for quantitative phytoplankton analysis.
(UNESCO, Paris, France, 2010)A new manual on microscopic and molecular methods for quantitative phytoplankton analysis is available from the IOC in cooperation with ICES. The manual includes illustrated step by step instructions on how to carry out ... -
ICAN - Best Practice Guide to Engage your Coastal Web Atlas User Community.
(UNESCO, Paris, France, 2016)The long-term strategic goal of the IODE ICAN (International Coastal Atlas Network) project is to encourage and help facilitate the development of digital atlases of the global coast based on the principle of distributed, ... -
Ocean Data Standards Volume 1. Recommendation to Adopt ISO 3166-1 and 3166-3 Country Codes as the standard for Identifying countries in oceanographic data exchange. Version 1.1
(UNESCO-IOC, París, France, 2010)The use of a country code in the exchange of data has long been recognized as an important element for the management and exchange of oceanographic data. The seventh session of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission ... -
The International thermodynamic equation of seawater – 2010: calculation and use of thermodynamic properties. [includes corrections up to 31st October 2015] .
(UNESCO, París, France, 2015)This document outlines how the thermodynamic properties of seawater are evaluated using the International Thermodynamic Equation Of Seawater – 2010 (TEOS-‐‑10). This thermodynamic ... -
Manual on Harmful Marine Microalgae. 2nd revised edition.
(UNESCO, Paris, France, 2004)Following a general introduction on harmful algal blooms, the Manual proper is composed of four parts: Methods, Taxonomy, Monitoring and Management, and Appendices. The Methods section covers oceanographic field-sampling ... -
Guidelines for a Data Management Plan.
(UNESCO, París, France, 2016)A data management plan is a formal document outlining how research data will be managed, stored, documented and secured throughout a research project as well as planning for what will happen to the data after completion ... -
Ship-based Repeat Hydrography: a Strategy for a Sustained Global Programme. A Community White Paper developed by the Global Ocean Ship-based Repeat Hydrographic Investigations Panel for the OceanObs ’09 Conference, Venice, Italy, 21–25 September 2009.
(UNESCO, Paris, France, 2009)Ship-based hydrography is the only method for obtaining high-quality measurements with high spatial and vertical resolution of a suite of physical, chemical, and biological parameters over the full ocean water column, and ... -
Manual on sea level measurement and interpretation. Volume III - Reappraisals and Recommendations as of the year 2000.
(UNESCO-IOC, Paris, France, 2002)This manual is concerned primarily with techniques for the measurement of what are called relative sea level changes which means changes relative to the level of the land upon which the measuring instrument (the tide gauge) ... -
Ocean Data Standards Volume 2. Recommendation to adopt ISO 8601:2004 as the standard for the representation of dates and times in oceanographic data exchange.
(UNESCO-IOC, Paris, France, 2011)Date and time for Data Exchange International Standard ISO 8601:2004 Date and time representation. -
Protocols for the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) Core Measurements.
(UNESCO-IOC, Paris, France, 1994)This manual describes the protocol approved by the international Scientific Steering Committee for the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) for the most of the 20 JGOFS Core Measurements. However, the methods for the ... -
Steps and tools towards integrated coastal area management : methodological guide, Volume II.
(UNESCO-IOC, Paris, France, 2001)It is a necessity, not a truism, to say that coastal areas are the places where demographic, economic and environmental pressures reach their maximum. The space is already subject to conflicts of use between different ... -
Hazard awareness and risk mitigation in integrated coastal management (ICAM).
(UNESCO, Paris, France, 2009)These guidelines have been compiled by an international group of experts working under the auspices of IOC. The group included specialists in the fields of sea-level related hazards, marine meteorology vulnerability and ... -
Manual on sea level measurement and interpretation. Volume IV - An update to 2006.
(UNESCO, Paris, France, 2006)This is the fourth in the series of IOC Manuals on Sea Level Measurement and Interpretation. It incorporates the changes in tide gauge technology and measurement techniques in the five years since the third manual ...
