IMOS adds more best practice documentation to the Ocean Best Practice System, contributing to the requirement for collaborative ocean observing to follow well-defined and reproducible methods.
The Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS) repository is an online open access document repository, which aims to provide a discovery point for research groups to search and find existing community ocean best practices. The repository is maintained by the International Oceanographic Data and information Exchange (IODE) of the UNESCO-IOC as an IOC (IODE, GOOS) co-ordinated activity.
There have been a total of 23 individual documents (nine revised) submitted, published and discoverable in the last two financial years in Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS) repository – adding to the existing five.
All current available reports can be discovered HERE.
The latest 14 distinct documents (links below) cover Facilities and sub-Facilities of the IMOS program. IMOS AODN continues to manage the submission process, assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOI), depositing the documents locally, ensuring access is granted from relevant pages on the IMOS website and from the relevant dataset collections on the AODN Portal.
National Reference Stations Biogeochemical Facility
- National Reference Stations Biogeochemical Operations Manual Version 3.3.1
- National Reference Stations Biogeochemical Operations Manual Version 3.3
Ocean Gliders Facility
- Ocean Gliders delayed mode QA/QC best practice manual Version 3.0
- Ocean Gliders delayed mode QA/QC best practice manual Version 2.2
- Ocean Gliders delayed mode QA/QC best practice manual Version 2.1
- Ocean Gliders delayed mode QA/QC best practice manual Version 2.0
Ocean Radar Facility
Deep Water Moorings Facility
- Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) Quality Assessment and Control – Sediment Trap Particle Fluxes Version 1.0 1997-2018
- Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) Quality Assessment and Control Report. Version 1.0. Temperature Records 2006-2019
- Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) Quality Assessment and Control Report Remote Access Sampler: Sample Analysis Version 1.0. Macronutrient Analysis 2009-2018
- Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) Quality Assessment and Control Report Remote Access Sampler: Sample Analysis Version 1.0 Phytoplankton Analysis 2009-2018
- Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) Quality Assessment and Control Report Remote Access Sampler: Total Alkalinity and Total Dissolved Inorganic Carbon. Version 1.0. 2009-2018
- Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) Net Community Production (NCP) Calculation Procedure and MATLAB Code. Version 1.0.
- Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) Quality Assessment and Control Report PAR instruments Version 2.0. Photosynthetically Available Radiation records 2009-2019
IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water Moorings Sub-Facility:
- Report on the Quality Control of the IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array. Deployed: April 2012 to August 2013. Version 3.0
- Report on the Quality Control of the IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array. Deployed: April 2012 to August 2013. Version 2.1.
- Report on the Quality Control of the IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array. Deployed: May 2015 to November 2016. Version 3.1
- Report on the Quality Control of the IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array. Deployed: May 2015 to November 2016. Version 3.0
- Report on the Quality Control of the IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array. Deployed: May 2015 to November 2016 Version 2.1
- Report on the Quality Control of the IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array. Deployed: November 2016 to May 2018. Version 1.2
- Report on the Quality Control of the IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array. Deployed: November 2016 to May 2018. Version 1.1.
- Report on the Quality Control of the IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array. Deployed: April/May 2018 to September 2019. Version 1.1
- Report on the Quality Control of the IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array. Deployed: April/May 2018 to September 2019. Version 1.0.
For any questions about these IMOS documents please contact info(at)aodn.org.au