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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 ... -
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 [SUPERSEDED by http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-426]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: - ... -
Argo Quality Control Manual for CTD and Trajectory Data. Version 3.7.
(IFREMER, Brest, France, 2023)versus pressure. Trajectory data involve positions and time. This document is the Argo Quality Control Manual for CTD and Trajectory data. It describes two levels of quality control and adjustment procedures: • The first ... -
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 [SUPERSEDED by http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-118]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 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 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 [SUPERSEDED by http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-35]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). -
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). -
Argo User’s Manual Version 3.3, 22 November 2019.
(IFREMER, 2019)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). -
argoFloats: an R Package for Analyzing Argo Data.
(2021)An R package named argoFloats has been developed to facilitate identifying, downloading, caching, and analyzing oceanographic data collected by Argo profiling floats. The analysis phase benefits from close connections ... -
Best practices for Core Argo floats: Getting started, physical handling, metadata, and data considerations. Version 1. [GOOS ENDORSED PRACTICE]
(South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Cape Town, South Africa, 2023)Argo floats have been deployed in the global ocean for over 20 years. The Core mission of the Argo program (Core Argo) has contributed well over 2 million profiles of salinity and temperature of the upper 2000 m for a ... -
A BGC-Argo Guide: Planning, Deployment, Data Handling and Usage.
(2019)The Biogeochemical-Argo program (BGC-Argo) is a new profiling-float-based, ocean wide, and distributed ocean monitoring program which is tightly linked to, and has benefited significantly from, the Argo program. The ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Biogeochemical Argo Cheat Sheets: Data distribution; Quality control and GDAC; Chlorophyll-a; Optical backscatter; pH; Irradiance; Oxygen; Nitrate.
(Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Australia, 2021)Eight cheat sheets for users of Biogeochemical Argo data. The sheets describe data distribution, quality control in the Global Data Acquisition Center and the six core Biogeochemical Argo variables (chlorophyll-a, optical ... -
DMQC Cookbook for Core Argo parameters.
(IFREMER, Brest, France, 2021)This cookbook is to document the end-to-end processing chain of Delayed Mode Quality Control (DMQC) of Core Argo parameters. It provides guidlines on existing manuals, and explains best practices through case studies. This ... -
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, ... -
Operating Cabled Underwater Observatories in Rough Shelf-Sea Environments: A Technological Challenge.
(2020)Cabled coastal observatories are often seen as future-oriented marine technology that enables science to conduct observational and experimental studies under water year-round, independent of physical accessibility ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
