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General Marine Data Quality Control

Contents 1 Background 2 Available Manuals 3 Subsections of this Article 4 Information about this article 5 Contact

Background

This is a collection of all general-purpose quality control references, which can be used alongside the parameter-specific manuals also cataloged in parallel articles.  The intent here is to provide as complete a listing as possible, including some items that are quite old.

Available Manuals

• Argo Quality Control Manual (2.3)
• Controle Qualite Visuel Coriolis Version 1.1
• Coriolis Data Centre In-situ Data Quality Control (1.3)
• Data Quality Control Procedures Applied to the M3A buoys
• GTSPP Real-Time Quality Control Manual (IOC M&G 22)
• Handbook of Automated Data Quality ControlChecks and Procedures of the National Data Buoy Center
• Handbook of Quality Control Procedures and Methods for Surface Meteorology Data
• Manual of Quality Control Procedures for Validations of Oceanographic Data (IOC M&G 26)
• Procedures Used at AOML to Quality Control Real Time XBT Data Collected in the Atlantic Ocean (NOAA Tech Memorandum ERL AOML-78)
• Quality control cookbook for XBT data (expendable bathythermograph data): Version 1.1 (CSIRO Rep 221)
• Quality Assurance of Real-Time Oceanographic Data (QARTOD) I: Standards for Calibration, QA/QC methods and metadata
• Quality Assurance of Real-Time Oceanographic Data (QARTOD) 2: wave and current measurements
• Quality Assurance of Real-Time Oceanographic Data (QARTOD) 3: CTDs, in-situ currents, remote currents and waves
• Quality Assurance of Real-Time Oceanographic Data (QARTOD) 4: QC for CTDs, in-situ currents, remote currents, and waves
• Quality Control and Management of Oceanographic Wave-Gage Data CERC-IR-90-1
• Quality Control and Processing of Historical Oceanographic Temperature, Salinity, and Oxygen Data (NOAA Tech Rep NESDIS 81)
• Quality Control and Processing of Historical Oceanographic Nutrient Data (NOAA Teach Rep NESDIS 79)
• Quality Control Guidelines for GTS buoy data (DBCP)
• SIMORC Data Quality Control Procedures
• Thermosalinograph (TSG) Data Quality Control at AOML (with QC Procedures Sheet)

Subsections of this Article

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Information about this article

Short title: General QC

Description: This article contains a compilation of all data quality control volumes discovered during the survey process. Most are also discussed and used in the articles on specific parameter types. It also contains a few "data managment" volumes published for specific marine observing sytems

Expertise level: beginner

Author: Murray.Brown

Approval status: approved

Approved by: Murray.Brown

Last change: 2010-3-31

Subsection of: Marine Data Quality Control

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