Real Time Quality Control of temperature and salinity measurements within MyOcean and Copernicus in situ TAC

Type Technical document (specification, manual)
Date 2010-01-11
Language English
Ref. CMEMS-INS-CURRENT-RTQC
Author(s) von Schuckmann KarinaORCID1, Garau BartoloméORCID2, Wehde HenningORCID3, Gies Tobias4, Durand Dominique5, Reseghetti Franco6
Affiliation(s) 1 : Ifremer, France
2 : IMEDEA, Spain
3 : IMR, Norway
4 : BSH, Germany
5 : NIVA, Norway
6 : ENEA, Italy
DOI 10.13155/74317
Publisher Copernicus in situ TAC
Version V1.0
Abstract

An important step within the MyOcean project is to uniform existing Real Time Quality Control (RTQC) and quality assurance procedures of the different nations involved. As the MyOcean service is thought to be available at any time and open to anyone, an agreement in good Real Time Quality Control (RTQC) methods and procedures is vital to guarantee high data quality distributed to users via international exchange. The agreement on the implementation of uniform RTQC procedures have the severe potential to overcome the inconsistency within the existing datasets provided actually by the international community.

This document is based upon previous experiences and has the following objectives:


  • “To ensure the data consistency within a single data set and within a collection of data sets and to ensure that the quality and errors of the data are apparent to the user who has sufficient information to assess its sustainability for a task.” (IOC/IODE, Manuals and Guides 26, 1993).

One of the various tasks of the MyOcean project - the Work Package (WP) 15 – deals with the scientific and technical validation of In Situ-TAC (Technical Assembly Centres) products and forms the frame of this document the RTQC procedure for Temperature and Salinity measurements.

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von Schuckmann Karina, Garau Bartolomé, Wehde Henning, Gies Tobias, Durand Dominique, Reseghetti Franco (2010). Real Time Quality Control of temperature and salinity measurements within MyOcean and Copernicus in situ TAC. CMEMS-INS-CURRENT-RTQC. https://doi.org/10.13155/74317