Reference documentation

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 : 
• Argo user's manual, version 3.2, September 11th 2017
  http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/29825
• Argo physical parameters list: Core-Argo and BGC-Argo, October 19th 2017 158.55 kB
• 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
  • Technical parameters naming convention rules, version 4, May 11th 2015 45.00 kB
  • Technical parameters names, version 7.8, January 4th 2017 77.31 kB
  • Technical and configuration parameters units, version 2.3, May 11th 2016 12.53 kB
• Surface pressure correction table, January 13th 2015 43.50 kB
• Argo metadata files
  • Configuration parameter names, core Argo, April 21th 2017 47.34 kB
  • Configuration parameter names, BGC-Argo, January 4th 2017 16.70 kB

Quality control

• Argo quality control manual for CTD and trajectory data, version 3, December 15th 2015
  http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/33951
• BGC-Argo quality control Manual for biogeochemical data, version 1.0, March 1st 2016
  http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/40879
• BGC-Argo quality control manual for Chlorophyll-A concentration, version 1.0, December 2014
  http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/35385

Cookbooks

• Description of the Argo GDAC File Checks: Data Format and Consistency Checks, version 2.4, June 2016
  http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/46120
• Argo DAC profile cookbook, version 1.0, June 2015
  http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/41151 
• Trajectory DAC cookbook version 4.1, December 2015
  http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/41152
• Common method for determining position and Time and attribute the appropriate QC, August 2009 22.20 kB
• BGC-Argo oxygen cookbook : see BGC-Argo oxygen data management
• BGC-Argo processing chlorophyll-A concentration at the DAC level, September 2015
  http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/39468
• BGC-Argo processing Argo measurement timing information at the DAC level, March 2017
  http://dx.doi.org/10.13155/47998