This section provides access to the latest version of the documentation provided by Argo Data Management Team.
How is Argo data management organized ?
- A beginners' guide to accessing Argo data
- The Argo data management handbook
- The organisation of the Argo Global Data Centers
Argo data formats
- The Argo data formats are described in :
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Argo user's manual, version 3.3, November 28th 2019
http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/29825 - Information on the Version 3 of the Argo format : http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/Data_FAQ.html#v3stat
- more detail for profile http://www-argo.ucsd.edu/Prof3files.html
- more detail for metadata: http://www-argo.ucsd.edu/Meta3files.html
- more detail for Trajectory : http://www-argo.ucsd.edu/Traj3files.htm
- Argo user manual for technical files
- Argo metadata files
Quality control
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Argo quality control manual for CTD and trajectory data
http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/33951 -
Argo quality control manual for dissolved oxygen concentration
https://doi.org/10.13155/46542 -
BGC-Argo quality control Manual for biogeochemical data
http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/40879 -
BGC-Argo quality control manual for Chlorophyll-A concentration
http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/35385
Cookbooks, core-Argo
Argo DAC profile cookbook, version 2.0, August 2019
http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/41151
Argo DAC trajectory cookbook version 6.0, August 2019
http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/29824
Cookbooks, BGC-Argo
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Processing Argo oxygen data at the DAC level cookbook
http://doi.org/10.13155/39795 -
BGC-Argo processing particle backscattering at the DAC level
http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/39459 -
BGC-Argo processing chlorophyll-A concentration at the DAC level
http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/39468 -
BGC-Argo processing Argo measurement timing information at the DAC level
http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/47998 -
Processing BGC-Argo CDOM concentration at the DAC level
http://doi.org/10.13155/54541 -
Processing Bio-Argo nitrate concentration at the DAC Level
http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/46121 -
Processing BGC-Argo Radiometric data at the DAC level
http://doi.org/10.13155/51541 -
Processing BGC-Argo pH data at the DAC level
https://doi.org/10.13155/57195
Cookbooks, GDAC
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Description of the Argo GDAC File Checks: Data Format and Consistency Checks
http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/46120 -
Description of the Argo GDAC BGC File Merge Process
http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/52154 -
BGC-Argo synthetic profile file processing and format on Coriolis GDAC
https://doi.org/10.13155/55637 -
Argo GDAC cookbook
http://doi.org/10.13155/46202