QuOTA dataset (Quality-controlled Ocean Temperature Archive)

The QuOTA dataset is a collection of ocean temperature profiles from the Indian Ocean and Tasman Sea surrounding Australia. The data was collected together from various sources and instrument types, duplicate checked and quality controlled. Automated and expert/manual quality control was performed on the data. The automated quality control is discussed in Gronell, A., and S.E. Wijffels. 2008. A Semiautomated Approach for Quality Controlling Large Historical Ocean Temperature Archives. Journal Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. v25, pp990-1003.\n\nTemperature data from the QuOTA project are available in 5m bins in netcdf format, 2m bins by WMO squares and in a gridded format (described in documents list). They are also available in full resolution netcdf format as described in attached documentation. \n\nFull resolution netcdf: \nQuOTATasmanSea.tar.gz\nQuOTAIndianOcean.tar.gz\nFormat documented in 'MQNC_format.doc'\n\n2m binned netcdf:\nTasman2mbinsWMOsquares.zip\nIndianOcean2mbinsWMOsquares.zip\nFormat documented in 'TZ_5m_2m_bins_header_description.doc'\n\n5m binned netcdf:\nTasmanSea_TZ_5mbin_profiles.nc.gz\nIndianOcean_TZ_5mbin_profiles.nc.gz\nFormat documented in 'TZ_5m_2m_bins_header_description.doc'\n\nGridded data netcdf:\nQuOTA_gridded_monthly_nc.gz\nFormat documented in 'griddedQuotadesc.doc'\n\nThe dataset is useful as a high-quality upper ocean temperature dataset in quality control test validation, among other uses.\nThe data collected covers the years 1772-2005. The project end was approximately 2008.\n\nThe paper describing the QuOTA quality control process is available in the CSIRO Research Publications Repository (RPR): http://hdl.handle.net/102.100.100/118409?index=1 \nLineage: Ocean temperature profiles were collected from:\nNOAA World Ocean Database, 2001\nCSIRO XBT data\nBureau of Meteorology XBT data\nFar Seas Fisheries data (Japan)\nNOAA AOML XBT datasets\nGTSPP datasets\nScripps XBT datasets\nWOCE (World Ocean Circulation Experiment) datasets\nInsititut de Recherche pour le Developpement, Noumea, New Caledonia\nEarly CSIRO Research voyages\nEarly Argo profiling float data