IQuOD Community Practices

International Quality-Controlled Ocean Database (IQuOD) v0.1: The Temperature Uncertainty Specification.

Cowley, Rebecca; Killick, Rachel E.; Boyer, Tim; Reseghetti, Franco; Kizu, Shoichi; Palmer, Matthew D.; Cheng, Lijing; Storto, Andrea; Le Menn, Marc; Simoncelli, Simona; Macdonald, Alison M.; Domingues, Catia M. (2021)

Ocean temperature observations are crucial for a host of climate research and forecasting activities, such as climate monitoring, ocean reanalysis and state estimation, seasonal-to-decadal forecasts, and ocean forecasting. ...
An Algorithm for Classifying Unknown Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) Instruments Based on Existing Metadata.

Palmer, Matthew D.; Boyer, Tim; Cowley, Rebecca; Kizu, Shoichi; Reseghetti, Franco; Suzuki, Toru; Thresher, Ann (2018)

Time-varying biases in expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments have emerged as a key un- certainty in estimates of historical ocean heat content variability and change. One of the challenges in the development of ...