Argo Community Practices: Recent submissions

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    • Best practices for Core Argo floats - part 1: getting started and data considerations. 

      Morris, Tamaryn; Scanderbeg, Megan; West-Mack, Deborah; Gourcuff, Claire; Poffa, Noe´; Bhaskar, T.V.S.U.; Hanstein, Craig; Diggs, Steve; Talley, Lynne; Turpin, Victor; Liu, Zenghong; Owens, Breck (2024)
      Argo floats have been deployed in the global ocean for over 20 years. The Core mission of the Argo program (Core Argo) has contributed well over 2 million profiles of salinity and temperature of the upper 2000 m of the ...

    • Best practices for Core Argo floats: Getting started, physical handling, metadata, and data considerations. Version 1. [GOOS ENDORSED PRACTICE] 

      Morris, Tamaryn; Scanderbeg, Megan; West-Mack, Deborah; Gourcuff, Claire; Poffa, Noé; Bhaskar, T.V.S.U; Hanstein, Craig; Diggs, Steve; Talley, Lynne; Turpin, Victor; Liu, Zenghong; Owens, Breck (South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Cape Town, South Africa, 2023)
      Argo floats have been deployed in the global ocean for over 20 years. The Core mission of the Argo program (Core Argo) has contributed well over 2 million profiles of salinity and temperature of the upper 2000 m for a ...

    • Argo Quality Control Manual for CTD and Trajectory Data. Version 3.7. 

      Wong, Annie; Keeley, Robert; Carval, Thierry (IFREMER, Brest, France, 2023)
      versus pressure. Trajectory data involve positions and time. This document is the Argo Quality Control Manual for CTD and Trajectory data. It describes two levels of quality control and adjustment procedures: • The first ...

    • DMQC Cookbook for Core Argo parameters. 

      Cabanes, Cecile; Angel-Benavides, Ingrid; Buck, Justin; Coatanoan, Christine; Dobler, Delphine; Herbert, Gaelle; Klein, Birgit; Maze, Guillaume; Notarstefano, Guilio; Owens, Breck; Thierry, Virginie; Walicka, Kamila; Wong, Annie (IFREMER, Brest, France, 2021)
      This cookbook is to document the end-to-end processing chain of Delayed Mode Quality Control (DMQC) of Core Argo parameters. It provides guidlines on existing manuals, and explains best practices through case studies. This ...

    • Quantifying observational errors in Biogeochemical‐Argo oxygen, nitrate, and chlorophyll a concentrations. 

      Mignot, A.; D'Ortenzio, F.; Taillandier, V.; Cossarini, G.; Salon, S. (2019)
      Biogeochemical (BGC)‐Argo floats observations are becoming a major data source for assimilation into and constraining of ocean biogeochemical models. An important prerequisite for a successful synthesis between models ...

    • argoFloats: an R Package for Analyzing Argo Data. 

      Kelley, Dan E.; Harbin, Jaimie; Richards, Clark (2021)
      An R package named argoFloats has been developed to facilitate identifying, downloading, caching, and analyzing oceanographic data collected by Argo profiling floats. The analysis phase benefits from close connections ...

    • Biogeochemical Argo Cheat Sheets: Data distribution; Quality control and GDAC; Chlorophyll-a; Optical backscatter; pH; Irradiance; Oxygen; Nitrate. 

      Baldry, Kimberlee; Sauzède, Raphaëlle; Cornec, Marin (Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Australia, 2021)
      Eight cheat sheets for users of Biogeochemical Argo data. The sheets describe data distribution, quality control in the Global Data Acquisition Center and the six core Biogeochemical Argo variables (chlorophyll-a, optical ...

    • Operating Cabled Underwater Observatories in Rough Shelf-Sea Environments: A Technological Challenge. 

      Fischer, Philipp; Brix, Holger; Baschek, Burkard; Kraberg, Alexandra; Brand, Markus; Cisewski, Boris; Riethmüller, Rolf; Breitbach, Gisbert; Möller, Klas Ove; Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Alliouane, Samir; van de Poll, Willem H.; Witbaard, Rob (2020)
      Cabled coastal observatories are often seen as future-oriented marine technology that enables science to conduct observational and experimental studies under water year-round, independent of physical accessibility ...

    • Argo User’s Manual Version 3.3, 22 November 2019. 

      Argo Data Management Team (IFREMER, 2019)
      This document is the Argo data user’s manual. It contains the description of the formats and files produced by the Argo Data Assembly Centres (DACs).

    • Novel metrics based on Biogeochemical Argo data to improve the model uncertainty evaluation of the CMEMS Mediterranean marine ecosystem forecasts. 

      Salon, Stefano; Cossarini, Gianpiero; Bolzon, Giorgio; Feudale, Laura; Lazzari, Paolo; Teruzzi, Anna; Solidoro, Cosimo; Crise, Alessandro (2019)
      The quality of the upgraded version of the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) biogeochemical operational system of the Mediterranean Sea (MedBFM) is assessed in terms of consistency and forecast skill, ...

    • BGC-Argo synthetic profile file processing and format on Coriolis GDAC. Version 1.1 

      Bittig, Henry; Wong, Annie; Plant, Josh (Ifremer, Plouzane, France, 2019)
      The current V3.1 Argo netCDF format that produces a pair of core- and b- profile files per cycle, with N_PROF > 1, allows storage of all profile information returned from BGC floats, in a manner that is as close to float ...

    • A BGC-Argo Guide: Planning, Deployment, Data Handling and Usage. 

      Bittig, Henry C.; Maurer, Tanya L.; Plant, Joshua N.; Schmechtig, Catherine; Wong, Annie P. S.; Claustre, Hervé; Trull, Thomas W.; Udaya Bhaskar, T. V. S.; Boss, Emmanuel; Dall’Olmo, Giorgio; Organelli, Emanuele; Poteau, Antoine; Johnson, Kenneth S.; Hanstein, Craig; Leymarie, Edouard; Le Reste, Serge; Riser, Stephen C.; Rupan, A. Rick; Taillandier, Vincent; Thierry, Virginie; Xing, Xiaogang (2019)
      The Biogeochemical-Argo program (BGC-Argo) is a new profiling-float-based, ocean wide, and distributed ocean monitoring program which is tightly linked to, and has benefited significantly from, the Argo program. The ...

    • Argo quality control manual for dissolved oxygen concentration. Version 2.0, 23 October 2018. 

      Thierry, Virginie; Bittig, Henry; The Argo BGC Team (IFREMER for Argo BGC Group, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2018)
      This document is the Argo quality control manual for Dissolved oxygen concentration. It describes two levels of quality control: • The first level is the real-time system that performs a set of agreed automatic ...

    • Processing Argo oxygen data at the DAC level. Version 2.3.1, June 13th 2018. 

      Thierry, Virginie; Bittig, Henry; Denis, Gilbert; Taiyo, Kobayashi; Sato, Kanako; Schmid, Claudia (IFREMER for Argo Data Management, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2018)
      This document does NOT address the issue of oxygen data quality control (either real-time or delayed mode). As a preliminary step towards that goal, this document seeks to ensure that all countries deploying floats equipped ...

    • Processing BGC-Argo measurement timing information at the DAC level. Version 1.0, March 28th 2017. 

      Bittig, Henry C.; Schmechtig, Catherine; Rannou, Jean-Philippe; Poteau, Antoine (IFREMER for Argo Data Management, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2017)
      Thermal lag or sensor time response corrections (e.g., [1]) require knowledge of the time of each individual sensor observation. In the Argo data system, the float's trajectory file is the natural place to put measurement ...

    • Processing BGC-Argo Radiometric data at the DAC level. Version 1.1, October 9 th 2017. 

      Schmechtig, Catherine; Poteau, Antoine; Claustre, Herve; D'Ortenzio, Fabrizio (IFREMER for Argo Data Management, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2017)
      Presently, radiometers can be implemented on profiling floats to estimate some radiometric measurements. Hereafter we briefly describe the principle of this method and several configurations of the OCR500 series instruments. ...

    • Processing Bio-Argo nitrate concentration at the DAC Level. Version 1.1, March 3rd 2018. 

      Johnson, Ken; Pasqueron De Fommervaul, Orens; Serra, Romain; D'Ortenzio, Fabrizio; Schmechtig, Catherine; Claustre, Herve; Poteau, Antoine (IFREMER for Argo Data Management, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2018)
      The only method used to date to measure dissolved nitrate concentration (NITRATE) with sensors mounted on profiling floats is based on the absorption of light at ultraviolet wavelengths by nitrate ion (Johnson and Coletti, ...

    • Processing BGC-Argo CDOM concentration at the DAC level. Version 1.0. October 10th 2017. 

      Schmechtig, Catherine; Organelli, Emanuele; Poteau, Antoine; Claustre, Herve; D'Ortenzio, Fabrizio (IFREMER for Argo Data Management, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2017)
      In the open ocean, Colored Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) is the fraction of the total Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM), composed by a mixture of chemically complex algal degradation products that interact with light. CDOM ...

    • Processing bio-Argo chlorophyll-A concentration at the DAC level. Version 1.0. 30 September 2015. 

      Schmechtig, Catherine; Poteau, Antoine; Claustre, Herve; D'Ortenzio, Fabrizio; Boss, Emmanuel (IFREMER for Argo Data Management, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2015)
      This document does NOT address the issue of chlorophyll-a quality control (either real-time or delayed mode). As a preliminary step towards that goal, this document seeks to ensure that all countries deploying floats ...

    • Processing BGC-Argo particle backscattering at the DAC level. Version 1.4, 07 March 2018. 

      Schmechtig, Catherine; Poteau, Antoine; Claustre, Herve; D'Ortenzio, Fabrizio; Dall'Olmo, Giorgio; Boss, Emmanuel (IFREMER for Argo Data Management, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 2018)
      This document does NOT address the issue of particle backscattering quality control (either real-time or delayed mode). As a preliminary step towards that goal, this document seeks to ensure that all countries deploying ...