PARC JAMSTEC - Documents

About ARC

3rd ARC workshop (Sep.29 2009, Toulouse, France)
2nd ARC workshop (Oct.28 2008, Hawaii, USA)
1st ARC workshop (Nov.13 2007, Hobart, Australia)
PARC progress report [presented by J.Potemra/IPRC at ADMT7] (Nov.3 2006, Tianjin, China)
PARC 4^th meeting summary (Oct.26 2006, Ansan, Korea)

Argo Data Management

User's Manual version 2.4 (Updated Mar.30 2012)
Argo quality control manual version 2.8 (Updated Jan.03 2013)
Other data management documents (link to the Coriolis site)

Argo Delayed-mode QC

Owens, W.B., A.P.S. Wong, 2009: An improved calibration method for the drift of the conductivity sensor on autonomous CTD profiling floats by theta-s climatology. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 56(3), 450-457.
Taiyo Kobayashi and Shinya Minato, 2005: Importance of reference dataset improvements for Argo delayed-mode quality control. Journal of Oceanography, 61,995-1009.
Taiyo Kobayashi and Shinya Minato, 2005: What observation scheme should we use for profiling floats to achieve the Argo goal for salinity measurement accuracy?- Suggestions from software calibration -. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 22, 1588-1601.
Bohme, L., U. Send, 2005: Objective analyses of hydrographic data for referencing profiling float salinities in highly variable environments. Deep-Sea Research Part II, 52, 651-664.
Wong, A.P.S., G.C. Johnson, W.B. Owens, 2003: Delayed-Mode Calibration of Autonomous CTD Profiling Float Salinity Data by theta-S Climatology. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 20, 308-318.

Reference for Argo Delayed-mode QC

Taiyo Kobayashi and Toshio Suga, 2006: The Indian Ocean HydroBase: A high-quality climatological dataset for the Indian Ocean. Progress in Oceanography, 68,75-114. <Go to Download Page>
Taiyo Kobayashi and Shinya Minato, 2005: The Pacific Ocean reference dataset:SeHyD. 1^st Argo DMQC Workshop, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. <Go to Download Page>

PARC The Pacific Argo Regional Center (PARC) has been established as a joint collaboration between the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) at the University of Hawaii, and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The PARC takes on the responsibility to validate all float data in the Pacific through rigorous scrutiny and to derive regional products based on these floats.