Manual for real-time quality control of in-situ temperature and salinity data : a guide to quality control and quality assurance for in-situ temperature and salinity observations A Guide to Quality Control and Quality Assurance for In-situ Temperature and Salinity Observations

The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) has a vested interest in collecting high-quality data for the 34 core variables (https://ioos.noaa.gov/about/ioos-by-the numbers) measured on a national scale. In response to this interest, U.S. IOOS continues to establish written, authoritative procedures for the quality control (QC) of real-time data through the Quality Assurance/Quality Control of Real-Time Oceanographic Data (QARTOD) project, addressing each variable as funding permits. This manual on the real-time QC of temperature and salinity data was first published in December 2013 as the fourth core variable to be addressed and was updated in December 2015; this is the second update. Other QARTOD guidance documents that have been published by the U.S. IOOS project to date are listed below and are available at https://ioos.noaa.gov/project/qartod/. They are also available from the NOAA repository at https://repository.library.noaa.gov and at the IOC / GOOS Ocean Best Practice System at https://www.oceanbestpractices.org/. Users are encouraged to check the IOOS website to ensure they have the most recent version of the manuals. 2020 NOS (National Ocean Service) IOOS (Integrated Ocean Observing System) Library https://doi.org/10.25923/x02m-m555 Public Domain 1935