Documentation
How is Argo data management organized ?
Argo data formats
- The Argo data formats are described in the “Argo user’s manual”:
https://dx.doi.org/10.13155/29825 - Reference tables master documents are available from:
https://github.com/OneArgo/argo-format-user-manual/tree/main/etc - User manual for technical files
Quality control
- Argo quality control manual for CTD and trajectory data https://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 https://dx.doi.org/10.13155/40879
- BGC-Argo quality control manual for chlorophyll-A concentration https://dx.doi.org/10.13155/35385
- BGC-Argo quality control manual for nitrate concentration https://doi.org/10.13155/84370
- BGC-Argo quality control for radiometry https://doi.org/10.13155/62466
- BGC-Argo quality control manual for pH https://doi.org/10.13155/97828
- BGC Argo quality control manual for particles backscattering https://doi.org/10.13155/60262
Guidelines
- Framework for adding new sensors and new mission parameters in Argo https://doi.org/10.13155/108751
Cookbooks, Core-Argo
- Argo DAC profile cookbook https://dx.doi.org/10.13155/41151
- Argo DAC trajectory cookbook https://dx.doi.org/10.13155/29824
- Common method for determining position and Time and attribute the appropriate QC
- Core-Argo DMQC cookbook https://doi.org/10.13155/78994
Cookbooks, BGC-Argo
- Processing Argo oxygen data at the DAC level cookbook https://doi.org/10.13155/39795
- BGC-Argo processing particle backscattering at the DAC level https://dx.doi.org/10.13155/39459
- BGC-Argo processing chlorophyll-A concentration at the DAC level https://dx.doi.org/10.13155/39468
- BGC-Argo processing Argo measurement timing information at the DAC level https://dx.doi.org/10.13155/47998
- Processing BGC-Argo CDOM concentration at the DAC level https://doi.org/10.13155/54541
- Processing Bio-Argo nitrate concentration at the DAC Level https://dx.doi.org/10.13155/46121
- Processing BGC-Argo Radiometric data at the DAC level https://doi.org/10.13155/51541
- Processing BGC-Argo pH data at the DAC level https://doi.org/10.13155/57195
Cookbooks, GDAC
- Description of the Argo GDAC File Checks: Data Format and Consistency Checks https://dx.doi.org/10.13155/46120
- BGC-Argo synthetic profile file processing and format on Coriolis GDAC https://doi.org/10.13155/55637
- Argo GDAC cookbook https://doi.org/10.13155/46202