DBCP Standard and Best Practices
The WMO Integrated Global Observing Systems (WIGOS), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC), and the OCG, are seeking increased collaboration with partner organisations towards the objective of harmonized standards, and better traceability of observations to standards. In an ongoing effort to ensure this, DBCP is working at providing best practices for the life cycle of all Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) observed under the program, for each stage of the observation life cycle.
The overview of standards and best practices:
- GOOS Ocean Best Practices
- WMO No.8 specifies instrumentations and observations
- WMO Marine Meteorology and Oceanography Programme (MMOP) DBCP Technical Reports Series
- DBCP Guideliness to Oceanographic Instruments
The DBCP is contributing to this effort by compiling this list of best practice documents available and will identify gaps in the documentation and where documents need to be updated. These best practices which have undergone community review and the network considers to be fully supported by the DBCP community will be identified as DBCP ‘GOOS endorsed’ and tagged as such in the IODE/GOOS Ocean Best Practice website repository. The DBCP Technical Document series makes up an important part of the standards and best practice documentation.
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| Quality Control |
Biogeochemical QC : OceanSITES etc
Real time quality control |
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| Data (archive) sharing - Portals |
