Browsing Argo Community Practices by Issue Date
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Bio-Argo quality control manual for Chlorophyll-A concentration. Version 1.0, December 17th 2014.
(IFREMER, 2014)This document is the Bio-Argo quality control manual for Chlorophyll A concentration. It describes the method used in real-time to apply quality control flags to Chlorophyll A concentration calculated from specific sensors ... -
SCOR WG 142: Quality Control Procedures for Oxygen and Other Biogeochemical Sensors on Floats and Gliders. Recommendation for oxygen measurements from Argo floats, implementation of in-air-measurement routine to assure highest long-term accuracy.
(Ifremer, Plouzane, France, 2015)As Argo has entered its second decade and chemical/biological sensor technology is improving constantly, the marine biogeochemistry community is starting to embrace the successful Argo float program. An augmentation of the ... -
Processing bio-Argo chlorophyll-A concentration at the DAC level. Version 1.0. 30 September 2015.
(IFREMER for Argo Data Management, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2015)This document does NOT address the issue of chlorophyll-a quality control (either real-time or delayed mode). As a preliminary step towards that goal, this document seeks to ensure that all countries deploying floats ... -
Argo real-time quality control intercomparison.
(2015)The real-time quality control (RTQC) methods applied to Argo profiling float data by the United Kingdom (UK) Met Office, the United States (US) Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Centre, the Australian Bureau ... -
Argo User's Manual, Version 3.2. December 29th 2015. [SUPERSEDED by http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-35]
(IFREMER for Argo, Brest, France, 2015)This document is the Argo data user’s manual. It contains the description of the formats and files produced by the Argo Data Assembly Centres (DACs). -
Processing Argo oxygen data at the DAC level. Version 2.2. Octobre 22nd 2016. [SUPERSEDED by http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-117]
(IFREMER for Argo Data Management, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2016)This document does NOT address the issue of oxygen data quality control (either real-time or delayed mode). As a preliminary step towards that goal, this document seeks to ensure that all countries deploying floats equipped ... -
Argo Quality Control Manual for dissolved oxygen concentration, Version 1.1. 28th September 2016. [SUPERSEDED by http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-118]
(IFREMER for Argo-BGC Group, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2016)This document is the Argo quality control manual for Dissolved oxygen concentration. It describes two levels of quality control: • The first level is the real-time system that performs a set of agreed automatic checks. • ... -
Argo Quality Control Manual for Biogeochemical Data. Version1.0, 1st March 2016.
(CNRS, UMR 7093, LOV, Observatoire Océanologique, Bio-Argo Group, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2016)This document is the Argo quality control manual for biogeochemical data. It describes two levels of quality control: The first level is the real-time system that performs a set of agreed automatic checks. Adjustment ... -
Processing BGC-Argo CDOM concentration at the DAC level. Version 1.0. October 10th 2017.
(IFREMER for Argo Data Management, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2017)In the open ocean, Colored Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) is the fraction of the total Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM), composed by a mixture of chemically complex algal degradation products that interact with light. CDOM ... -
Processing BGC-Argo measurement timing information at the DAC level. Version 1.0, March 28th 2017.
(IFREMER for Argo Data Management, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2017)Thermal lag or sensor time response corrections (e.g., [1]) require knowledge of the time of each individual sensor observation. In the Argo data system, the float's trajectory file is the natural place to put measurement ... -
Processing BGC-Argo Radiometric data at the DAC level. Version 1.1, October 9 th 2017.
(IFREMER for Argo Data Management, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2017)Presently, radiometers can be implemented on profiling floats to estimate some radiometric measurements. Hereafter we briefly describe the principle of this method and several configurations of the OCR500 series instruments. ... -
Argo User’s Manual Version 3.2, September 11th 2017.
(IFREMER, 2017)This document is the Argo data user’s manual. It contains the description of the formats and files produced by the Argo Data Assembly Centres (DACs). -
SCOR WG 142: Quality Control Procedures for Oxygen and Other Biogeochemical Sensors on Floats and Gliders. Recommendations on the conversion between oxygen quantities for Bio-Argo floats and other autonomous sensor platforms. Version 1.1
(Ifremer, Plouzane, France, 2018)As Argo has entered its second decade and chemical/biological sensor technology is improving constantly, the marine biogeochemistry community is starting to embrace the successful Argo float program. An augmentation of the ... -
Processing Bio-Argo nitrate concentration at the DAC Level. Version 1.1, March 3rd 2018.
(IFREMER for Argo Data Management, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2018)The only method used to date to measure dissolved nitrate concentration (NITRATE) with sensors mounted on profiling floats is based on the absorption of light at ultraviolet wavelengths by nitrate ion (Johnson and Coletti, ... -
Processing BGC-Argo particle backscattering at the DAC level. Version 1.4, 07 March 2018.
(IFREMER for Argo Data Management, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2018)This document does NOT address the issue of particle backscattering quality control (either real-time or delayed mode). As a preliminary step towards that goal, this document seeks to ensure that all countries deploying ... -
Processing Argo oxygen data at the DAC level. Version 2.3.1, June 13th 2018.
(IFREMER for Argo Data Management, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2018)This document does NOT address the issue of oxygen data quality control (either real-time or delayed mode). As a preliminary step towards that goal, this document seeks to ensure that all countries deploying floats equipped ... -
Argo quality control manual for dissolved oxygen concentration. Version 2.0, 23 October 2018.
(IFREMER for Argo BGC Group, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2018)This document is the Argo quality control manual for Dissolved oxygen concentration. It describes two levels of quality control: • The first level is the real-time system that performs a set of agreed automatic ... -
Argo Quality Control Manual for CTD and Trajectory Data, Version 3.1,16 January 2018. [SUPERSEDED by http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-426]
(IFREMER, 2018)A CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) device measures temperature and salinity versus pressure. This document is the Argo quality control manual for CTD and trajectory data. It describes two levels of quality control: - ... -
Novel metrics based on Biogeochemical Argo data to improve the model uncertainty evaluation of the CMEMS Mediterranean marine ecosystem forecasts.
(2019)The quality of the upgraded version of the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) biogeochemical operational system of the Mediterranean Sea (MedBFM) is assessed in terms of consistency and forecast skill, ... -
BGC-Argo synthetic profile file processing and format on Coriolis GDAC. Version 1.1
(Ifremer, Plouzane, France, 2019)The current V3.1 Argo netCDF format that produces a pair of core- and b- profile files per cycle, with N_PROF > 1, allows storage of all profile information returned from BGC floats, in a manner that is as close to float ...