Quality Assurance of Real Time Ocean Data, QARTOD

Announcements

Quality Assurance and Control Standards for Real-Time Dissolved Oxygen Measurements Released

A Guide to Quality Control and Quality Assurance for Dissolved Oxygen Observations in Coastal Oceans

As part of the U.S. IOOS Data Management and Communication (DMAC) core services, the U.S. IOOS Program Office has initiated a sustainable, community-based project to establish authoritative procedures for quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) of real-time ocean sensor data collected for U.S. IOOS. This project is entitled QARTOD (Quality Assurance/Quality Control of Real Time Ocean Data). All of the known QA/QC programs in existence today provide parts to the solution, but none consolidates the various parts. The result of this effort is to develop standards that can become formal U.S. IOOS data standards for data from the Regional Associations.

Key Objectives

The key objective of QARTOD is to sustain a process for establishing QA/QC procedures that will:

Establish authoritative QA/QC procedures for each of the 26 U.S. IOOS core variables, as necessary, including detailed information about the sensors and procedures used to measure the variables
Produce written manuals for these QA/QC procedures
From the list of individual QA/QC procedures and guidelines developed, define a baseline set of QA/QC procedures that can be used for certification of RCOOS data providers
Facilitate QA/QC integration with Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and other international ocean observation efforts
Engage the Federal Agencies and IOOS Regions that are part of, or contribute to, US IOOS who will use the established QA/QC procedure
Work efficiently, without duplication of effort, to facilitate the implementation of common QA/QC procedures amongst US IOOS Partners.

Manuals

Manual for Real-Time Quality Control of Dissolved Oxygen Observations

A Guide to Quality Control and Quality Assurance for Dissolved Oxygen Observations in Coastal Oceans (pdf)

The following documents are referenced in the Dissolved Oxygen Manual (page 27) and provide additional information that may be helpful:

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Meetings

Details about the 6 QARTOD meetings that were held betwen Dec, 2003 and Aug, 2012.

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QARTOD Project Plan

The Project Plan (pdf) describes how the project works, deliverables, the roles and the responsibilities of the participants, the structure of the QARTOD, and information about the key supporting organizations/roles.

QARTOD Core Variable/Sensor Matrix

QARTOD Core Variable/Sensor Matrix, V1, Dec 26, 2012 (pdf)

QARTOD Wiki and Code Repository

http://code.google.com/p/qartod

QARTOD History

QARTOD is a continuing multi-agency effort that started in 2003. The history of this project, including links to all the reports from previous QARTOD meetings and workshops is available on this here.

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