Welcome to QARTOD

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QARTOD is a continuing multi-agency effort to address the Quality Assurance and Quality Control issues of the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) and broader international community.

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QARTOD IV was held June 21 - 23, 2006 in Woods Hole, MA

The waves and insitu currents groups reported on QC definitions. These groups, as well as the CTD group and the Dissolved Oxygen group, began to define best practices and support towards quality assurrance in real time observation. Working with representatives from the Oceans.US DMAC metadata team, metadata definitions relating to real time data collection were discussed and methods to develop required mininum standards were identified. Go to the QARTOD IV website for more information or check out the final report .

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BACKGROUND

The first workshop(QARTOD I) was held at the NOAA NDBC office in Bay St. Louis, MS in the winter of 2003. Over 80 participants attended with the primary task to develop minimum standards for calibration, QA/QC methods and metadata.

QARTOD II was held February 28-March 2, 2005 in Norfolk, VA. This workshop focused on wave and current measurements and thier unique calibration, metadata and QA/QC needs.

QARTOD III was held at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA on November 2-4, 2005. It addressed QC for CTDs, in-situ currents, remote currents and waves.

The resources that can be found on this site include

• QARTOD I
  • The QARTOD I workshop report
    • QARTOD_final_09.pdf
  • QARTOD I workshop presentations

• QARTOD II
  • The QARTOD-II workshop report
    • final report [doc]
    • cover page [pdf]
  • QARTOD II workshop presentations

• QARTOD III
  • Master attendee list [pdf]
  • Agenda [pdf]
  • QARTOD III workshop proceedings and presentations

• QARTOD IV
  • Final report [pdf]

• Links to other ocean QA/QC resources^?
• A software repository^?
• The QARTOD cookbook

Note: new user registration has changed from a self-registration process to an admin email request since there were issues with site spamming by bots.

Development of this site began in February, 2004. Please be patient as content is added.

JanetFredericks - 01 Jun 2006

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Site Index

• Qartod2
  • Qartod2Agenda
  • Qartod2Presentations

• Qartod3
  • Qartod3Agenda
  • Qartod3Presentations

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    • QcNotes

• CodeRepository

• NetCDF
• QARTODIV_draftagenda.pdf: QARTOD_IV_draft051806.pdf

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