Repository of community practices in Ocean Research, Applications and Data/Information Management
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Australian Wave Buoy Operations and Data Management Guidelines.
(Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, Australia, 2023)This is a reference and guidance document for existing and prospective wave buoy operators and wave buoy data users in Australia. The document outlines wave buoy instruments most commonly in use and the wave data types and ... -
Australian XBT Quality Control Cookbook Version 2.1.
(CSIRO, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 2023)Expendable Bathythermographs (XBTs) have been used for many years by oceanographers to measure the temperature of the upper ocean. These instruments are simple devices which are designed to be deployed from moving vessels, ... -
Australia’s continental-scale acoustic tracking database and its automated quality control process.
(2018)Our ability to predict species responses to environmental changes relies on accurate records of animal movement patterns. Continental-scale acoustic telemetry networks are increasingly being established worldwide, producing ... -
Best practice recommendations for the use of external telemetry devices on pinnipeds.
(2019)Pinnipeds spend large portions of their lives at sea, submerged, or hauled-out on land, often on remote off-shore islands. This fundamentally limits access by researchers to critical parts of pinniped life history and has ... -
Daily Subsurface Ocean Temperature Climatology Using Multiple Data Sources: New Methodology.
(2020)The availability and accessibility of oceanographic data is critical to the sustainability of our oceans into the future. Ocean temperature climatology data products utilizing long time series provide context to ocean ... -
Effects of age, size and condition of elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) on their intravenous anaesthesia with tiletamine and zolazepam.
(2002)Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) were caught as part of a long-term demographic study on Macquarie Island. Over 18 months, 1033 seals were caught by hand and anaesthetised intravenously with a 1:1 mixture of ... -
IMOS NetCDF Conventions: Conventions and Reference Tables, Version 1.4.2, June 30th 2021.
(Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), Hobart, Tasmania, 2021)The main purpose of this document is to specify the format of the files that are used to distribute IMOS data, and to document the standards used therein. This includes naming conventions, or taxonomy, as well as metadata ... -
IMOS radiometry community-of-practice document. Version 1.0.
(Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), Hobart, Australia, 2021)This Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) radiometry community-of-practice document summarises important elements of community-agreed, internationally used, protocols for measurement of radiometric quantities in open ... -
IMOS Ship of Opportunity (SOOP) Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) realtime data delivery.
(CSIRO/IMOS, Hobart, Tasmania, 2022)Document describes the delivery of eXpendable Bathythermograph (XBT) data in realtime to the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN) and the GTS (global telecommunications system). -
IMOS Ship SST for Satellite SST Validation.
(GHRSST Project Office, Qingdao, China, 2018)We report on the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) ship SST data sets – nine years of in situ subsurface “SSTdepth” and two years of ship-based remotely sensed “SSTskin” quality-assured observations from ... -
National Reference Stations Biogeochemical Operations Manual Version 3.2.1.[SUPERSEDED by http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-559]
(Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, Australia, 2019)This manual outlines best-practice techniques in biogeochemical and blue-water oceanography for ensuring the output of reliable, quality data to the end-user community. The aim is for sampling, analytical, and reporting ... -
National Reference Stations Biogeochemical Operations Manual Version 3.3.
(Hobart, Australia, 2019)This manual outlines best-practice techniques in biogeochemical and blue-water oceanography for ensuring the output of reliable, quality data to the end-user community. The aim is for sampling, analytical, and reporting ... -
National Reference Stations Biogeochemical Operations Manual. Version 4.
(Integrated Marine Observng Ststem, Hobart, Australia, 2023)This manual outlines best-practice techniques in biogeochemical and blue-water oceanography for ensuring the output of reliable, quality data to the end-user community. The aim is for sampling, analytical, and reporting ... -
Ocean Gliders delayed mode QA/QC best practice manual Version 2.0. [SUPERSEDED by http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-685]
(Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, Australia, 2019)This document is the IMOS Ocean Gliders' Best Practice manual for delayed mode processed data. Ocean Gliders is a facility under Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS). This document describes the quality ... -
Ocean Gliders delayed mode QA/QC best practice manual Version 2.1. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: 10.26198/5c997b5fdc9bd]
(Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, Australia, 2019)This document is the IMOS Ocean Gliders' Best Practice manual for delayed mode processed data. Ocean Gliders is a facility under Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS). This document describes the quality ... -
Ocean Gliders delayed mode QA/QC best practice manual. Version 2.2. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: 10.26198/5c997b5fdc9bd]
(Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, Australia, 2021)This document is the IMOS Ocean Gliders' Best Practice manual for delayed mode processed data. Ocean Gliders is a facility under Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS). This document describes the quality ... -
Ocean Gliders delayed mode QA/QC best practice manual. Version 3.0.
(Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, Australia, 2021)This document is the IMOS Ocean Gliders' Best Practice manual for delayed mode processed data. Ocean Gliders is a facility under Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS). This document describes the quality ... -
Quality Assurance and Quality Control by Variable, Version 6..
(Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), Hobart, Austalia, 2017)This is a document designed to summarise the current status of quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) procedures across the Integrated Marine Observing System's program from the perspective of the essential ocean ... -
Quality assurance and quality control summary of IMOS Bioacoustics sub-Facility data. Version 1.0.
(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Hobart, Australia, 2022)This document briefly describes quality assurance and quality control procedures followed to generate IMOS Ships of Opportunity Bioacoustics sub-Facility data. Ships of Opportunity is a facility under Australia’s Integrated ... -
Quality control procedure for IMOS real-time meteorological and sea surface observations, and air-sea fluxes from research vessel and mooring platforms.
(Bureau of Meteorology, Docklands, Australia, 2021)This document outlines the automated Quality Control system implemented at the Bureau of Meteorology as part of the Integrated Marine Observing System, to process the real-time marine meteorological and surface ocean ...
