OBPS: Recent submissions

Now showing items 81-100 of 2016

    • Standard Operating Procedure: vessel:meteor:adcp_75khz_2175g (7480) Version 1.1: January 11, 2023 

      Kopte, Robert; Betz, Maximilian; Anselm, Norbert (Zenodo, 2023)
      This SOP describes device con guration, parameter characteristics, transmission and processing of its output, ingest procedure, storage, data access possibilities, and publishing. Intended user groups are device ...

    • Guide for Establishing an IODE National Oceanographic Data Centre, IODE Associate Data Unit or IODE Associate Information Unit (3rd revised edition). 

      Rickards, Lesley; Pissierssens, Peter; Appeltans, Ward; Boyer, Tim; Garcia, Hernan; Reed, Greg; Scott, Lucy; Simpson, Pauline (UNESCO, Paris, France, 2022)
      This document supersedes IOC Manuals and Guides No. 5 Rev. 2 (2008) (http://www.iode.org/mg5) which was entitled “Guide for Establishing a National Oceanographic Data Centre”. Taking into account the substantive evolution ...

    • IOC Strategic Plan for Ocean Data and Information Management (2023–2029). 

      Rickards, Lesley; Pissierssens, Peter; Reed, Greg; Scott, Lucy; Simpson, Pauline (UNESCO, Paris, France, 2023)
      The purpose of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO is to promote international cooperation and to coordinate programmes in research, services and capacitybuilding, in order to learn more about the ...

    • OceanSITES Data Providers’ Guide, Version 1.3 February 27, 2020. 

      OceanSITES (World Meteorological Organization- OceanOPS, Geneva, Swizerland, 2020)
      This document contains guidelines for providing metadata and data, describes the OceanSITES file naming scheme, and how to upload to GDACs. It should be used in conjunction with the Data Format Reference Manual. Intended ...

    • Best practices for operating underwater gliders in Atlantic Canada. 

      von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Nicolai; de Young, Brad; Belzile, Melany; Comeau, Adam; Cyr, Frederic; Davis, Richard; Emery, Pamela; Richards, Clark; Hebert, David; Van Der Meer, Jude (2023)
      Ocean gliders are versatile tools for making ocean observations. This paper summarizes the experience, of nearly two decades, of glider observing activity in Atlantic Canada. It reviews key considerations for operating ...

    • Guidelines on Homogenization. 2020 edition. 

      World Meteorological Organization (WMO) (World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Swizerland, 2020)
      This publication provides guidance on homogenization of instrumental land station data. For beginners, the publication describes prerequisites for homogenization (including data rescue, quality control, metadata, parallel ...

    • Advancing best practices for assessing trends of ocean acidification time series. 

      Sutton, Adrienne J.; Battisti, Roman; Carter, Brendan; Evans, Wiley; Newton, Jan; Alin, Simone; Bates, Nicholas R.; Cai, Wei-Jun; Currie, Kim; Feely, Richard A.; Sabine, Christopher; Tanhua, Toste; Tilbrook, Bronte; Wanninkhof, Rik (2022)
      Assessing the status of ocean acidification across ocean and coastal waters requires standardized procedures at all levels of data collection, dissemination, and analysis. Standardized procedures for assuring quality and ...

    • Bot Meets Whale: Best Practices for Mitigating Negative Interactions Between Marine Mammals and MicroROVs. 

      Thaler, Andrew; Parsons, E. C. M.; de Vos, Asha; Rose, Naomi A.; Smith, Courtney; Fretz, Dominik (2019)
      Low-cost, portable, observation-class, underwater remotely operated vehicles (microROVs), which can be transported and operated by a single user, are increasingly common tools in scientific, industrial, commercial, and ...

    • Application of Single Turnover Active Chlorophyll Fluorescence for Phytoplankton Productivity Measurements. Version 2.0, June, 26, 2023. 

      Berman-Frank, Ilana; Campbell, Douglas; Ciotti, Aurea; Erickson, Zachary; Fujiki, Tetsuichi; Halsey, Kimberly; Hickman, Anna; Gorbunov, Maxime; Hughes, David; Kolber, Zbigniew; Moore, Mark; Oxborough, Kevin; Prasil, Ondrej; Robinson, Charlotte; Ryan-Keogh, Thomas; Silsbe, Greg; Simis, Stefan; Thomalla, Sandy; Varkey, Deepa (Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) Working Group 156, 2023)
      This document represents the collective efforts of SCOR Working Group 156, ‘Active Chlorophyll Fluorescence for Autonomous Measurements of Global Marine Primary Productivity’. The group was established in 2019, bringing ...

    • Australian Wave Buoy Operations and Data Management Guidelines. 

      Hansen, Jeff; Kinsela, Mike (Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, Australia, 2023)
      This is a reference and guidance document for existing and prospective wave buoy operators and wave buoy data users in Australia. The document outlines wave buoy instruments most commonly in use and the wave data types and ...

    • Guidelines for monitoring seabirds at sea. 

      HELCOM (HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2021)
      The efforts of HELCOM to conserve the Baltic Sea environment are aggregated in its Baltic Sea Action Plan. Measures to guarantee the environmental integrity of the Baltic Sea need to be backed by science-based environmental ...

    • Report of the ESFRI Working Group on Monitoring of Research Infrastructures Performance (WG Monitoring). 

      European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), 2019)
      Following the invitation by the Competitiveness Council of 29 May 2018, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) established a Working Group (WG) to develop a common approach across Research ...

    • Guidelines on Cost Estimation of Research Infrastructures. 

      Centre for Industrial Studies (Support to Reinforce the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (StR-ESFRI), 2019)
      These guidelines are developed in the framework of the StR-ESFRI project (Support to Reinforce the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures), to provide a conceptual and methodological tool for c ...

    • IUCN SSC Best Practices Guidelines Marine Specialists Groups : Experience and examples. 

      IUCN Species Survival Commission (International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland, 2023)
      The IUCN SSC hosts multiple Species Specialist Groups and Task Forces (collectively referred to as SGs), volunteer groups who dedicate their time and expertise to promoting the conservation of many different taxa around ...

    • POLDER best practice guide to implementing schema.org for data discovery. 

      Bricher, Pip; Verhey, Chantelle; Duerr, Ruth; Ingram, Rebekah; Pulsifer, Peter; Collins, Julia; Jones, Matthew; de Bruin, Taco; Manley, William; Christoffersen, Shannon; Budden, Amber; Van de Putte, Anton; Gaylord, Allison; Tacoma, Marten; Fremand, Alice; Aulicino, Giuseppe; Gao, Alex; Minch, Melinda; Tronstad, Stein; Hayes, Amos; Godøy, Øystein; Schneider, Olaf (Zenodo, 2022)
      This document aims to utilize schema.org for the Polar data management community. The community has agreed on and plans on implementing uniform best practices for documenting data, observing assets, and other entities. ...

    • Review of acoustical and optical techniques to measure absolute salinity of seawater. 

      Le Menn, Marc; Naïr, Rajesh (2022)
      The salinity of seawater is of fundamental importance in climate studies, and the measurement of the variable requires high accuracy and precision in order to be able to resolve its typically small variations in the ...

    • A methodology to uncertainty quantification of essential ocean variables. 

      Waldmann, Christoph; Fischer, Philipp; Seitz, Steffen; Köllner, Manuela; Fischer, Jens-Georg; Bergenthal, Markus; Brix, Holger; Weinreben, Stefan; Huber, Robert (2022)
      The goal of this study is to provide a universally applicable procedure for a systematic evaluation of in situ measured data from single sensors regarding quantifying the uncertainty of the measurement results. As ...

    • Incentivizing More Effective Marine Protected Areas with the Global Ocean Refuge System (GLORES). 

      Hameed, Sarah O.; Cornick, Leslie A.; Devillers, Rodolphe; Morgan, Lance E. (2017)
      Healthy oceans are essential to human survival and prosperity, yet oceans are severely impacted worldwide by anthropogenic threats including overfishing, climate change, industrialization, pollution, and habitat destruction. ...

    • Ocean Decade Data & Information Strategy. 

      Akrofi, Joana; Armstrong, Edward; Aucan, Jerome; Bhaskar, Uday; Brönner, Ute; Taco, de Bruin; Buttigieg, Pier Luigi; Calewaert, Jan-Bart; Demargne, Louis; Diggs, Stephen; Filippone, Marco; Flier, Evert; Gann, Jeanette; Garcia, Hernan; Hill, Katy; Holdsworth, Neil; Larsen, Kirk; O'Brien, Kevin; Segebarth, Nicolas; Sharma, Rishi; Ulverud, Gry Hoeg; Wing, Kate (UNESCO, Paris, France, 2023)
      The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (the ‘Ocean Decade’) seeks to transform humanity’s relationship with the ocean, applying the full range of ocean science and knowledge to diagnose ...

    • 10,000m rated Underwater Glider. Version 2.0. 

      Wang, Shuxin; Wang, Yanhui; Yang, Shaoqiong; Niu, Wendong; Ma, Wei; Wang, Peng; Chen, Fangfang; Jiang, Fan; Yuan, Lingling; Miao, Zhanzhan (National Center of Ocean Standards and Metrology (NCOSM), Tianjin, China, 2023)
      For the observation of the Hadal trenches with a great depth and large scale, we have developed a 10,000m rated underwater glider, Petrel-X, which can realize low-cost, large-scale and full-depth marine observation by ...