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Scattered Dataset of Global Ocean Temperature and Salinity Profiles from the International Argo Program


LIU Zenghong1LI Zhaoqin1LU Shaolei1WU Xiaofen1SUN Chaohui1XU Jianping1
1 Second Institute of Oceanography,Ministry of Natural Resources of P. R. China,Hangzhou 310012,China

DOI:10.3974/geodb.2021.06.05.V1

Published:Jun. 2021

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Key Words:

Argo,temperature,salinity,global,ocean

Abstract:

By the end of 2020, the International Argo Program has collected more than 2.3 million temperature and salinity (TS) profiles over the global oceans. Although the Argo Data Assembly Centers (DACs) from various countries conduct a quality control to each TS profile, Argo dataset are becoming more and more complicated which brings difficulties when users read and make use of them. In order to facilitate the usage of Argo dataset, China Argo Real-time Data Center (CARDC) has started to reconstructed the TS dataset after a post-quality-control. The dataset is archived in .dat format, and consists of 2,244,712 data files with data size of 41.1 GB (compressed to 18 files with 7.56 GB). The analysis paper related to the dataset was published at IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 502, 2020.Browse

Foundation Item:

Ministry of Science and Technology of P. R. China (2012FY112300) Scientific Research Fund of the Second Institute of Oceanography, MNR (JG1709, JG1812); Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation (LQY18D060001); National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1811464)

Data Citation:

LIU Zenghong, LI Zhaoqin, LU Shaolei, WU Xiaofen, SUN Chaohui, XU Jianping.Scattered Dataset of Global Ocean Temperature and Salinity Profiles from the International Argo Program[J/DB/OL]. Digital Journal of Global Change Data Repository, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2021.06.05.V1.

Liu, Z. H., Li, Z. Q., Lu, S. L., et al. Scattered dataset of global ocean temperature and salinity profiles from the International Argo Program [J]. Journal of Global Change Data & Discovery, 2021, 5(3): 312-321. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodp.2021.03.09.

References:

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     [15] Li, Z. Q., Liu, Z. H., Lu, S. L. Global Argo data fast receiving and post-quality-control-system [C]. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2020, 502: 012012. DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/502/1/012012.
     

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Co-Sponsors

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Geographical Society of China

Parteners

Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in/for/with Developing Countries (PASTD)

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

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