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Background
The surest way to operate a robust quality assurance program is to create (or even adopt) and promulgate standard procedures through the use of methods and procedures manuals. A great number of them exist in the marine sciences, many developed during major international programs. They cover the areas of operations, sampling and analysis, sometimes combining elements of more than one area. The following is a catalog of the major manuals we've identified.
Available Manuals
- The Acquisition, calibration, and analysis of CTD data: a report of SCOR Working Group 51. 1988. UNESCO technical papers in marine science No. 54
- Chemical Methods for use in Marine Environmental Monitoring (IOC M&G 12)
- Environmental Design and Analysis in Marine Environmental Sampling (IOC M&G 34)
- Guide to Best Practices for Ocean Acidification Research and Data Reporting
- GO-SHIP Repeat Hydrography Manual: A Collection of Expert Reports and Guidelines (IOCCP Report No. 14, ICPO Publication Series No. 134)
The goal of this document is to promote standardized methods for a core set of parameters measured on the GO-SHIP hydrographic reference sections, although the hope is that the techniques described in this manual will be adopted by others wishing to make high quality measurements. The JCOMM has highlighted the importance of the GO-SHIP revision of the 1994 WOCE hydrographic Programme Manual.
The purpose of the real time quality control is to distribute trajectory data to users who need measurements as "fresh" as possible. This includes modeling centers for assimilation or TSG operators for technical feedback. To guaranty a minimal delay of distribution, without interruptions of the data flow, the real time QC is designed to be entirely automated. After real-time QC, a visual QC and calibrations are necessary for distribution to users who need a high quality data set such as for climate studies
- Guide to drifting data buoys (IOC M&G 20)
- Guide to oceanographic and marine meteorological instruments and observing practices (IOC M&G 4)
- Guide to Making Climate Quality Meteorological and Flux Measurements at Sea
- IMBER Data Management 'Cookbook' - A Project Guide to Good Data practices
- DOE (1994) Handbook of methods for the analysis of the various parameters of the carbon dioxide system in sea water
- Manual for monitoring oil and dissolved/dispersed petroleum hydrocarbons in marine waters and on beaches: procedures for the Petroleum Component of the IOC Marine Pollution Monitoring Systems (IOC M&G 13)
- Microscopic and Molecular Methods for Quantitative Phytoplankton Analysis
- Oceanographic and Marine Meteorological Observations in the Polar Regions - A Report to the Joint WMO/IOC Technical Commission on Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM TD 8; WMO/TD 1032)
- Oceanographic Survey Techniques and Living Resources Assessment Methods (IOC M&G 32)
- Procedure for Sampling the Sea-Surface Microlayer (IOC M&G 15)
- Protocols for the JGOFS core measurements (JGOFS Report Nr. 19)
- Protocols for the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) Core Measurements (IOC M&G 29)
- Salinity Data Management Best Practices Workshop Report
- Scripps XBT Manual
- Sippican XBT user's guide
A Collection of Practical and Helpful Hints for the Use and Operation of Sippican's Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) Systems
Expendable bathythermographs (XBTs) launched from ships of opportunity have played a major role in data collection for many large scale oceanographic research programmes such as the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA). XBTs will continue to play an important role in upper ocean thermal research programmes as well as in operational oceanographic programmes such as the ongoing Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). It is expected that new expendable devices as the recently developed TSK/Sippican XCTD (expendable CTD) designed to sample the T/S field of the upper ocean from vessels underway routinely and precisely will soon become operational for Ships-of-Opportunity Programmes.
At its third meeting in La Jolla, Spring 2000, SOOPIP recognized there was a need for some basic guidance for an operational programme such as SOOP. It therefore proposed to establish a SOOP Operations Guide (SOOPOG) published via the web would provide for the required guidance. The Guide should be supplemented by future new publications, as and when necessary. (Guide partially updated 2009)
- Users guide for thermosalinograph installation and maintenance aboard a ship
- Wave Reporting Procedures for Tide Observers in the Tsunami Warning System, Revised Edition (IOC M&G 6)
- Weather reporting, Vol. D, Information for shipping (WMO 9)
- WHP 91-1 : WOCE Operations Manual
- WOCE-SSS User’s Manual (1.0)
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Short title: Operations Manuals
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Expertise level: beginner
Author: Murray.Brown
Approval status: approved
Approved by: Murray.Brown
Last change: 2011-6-22
Subsection of: Marine Data Quality Assurance
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