BEST PRACTICES
- Wanninkhof, R., B. Tilbrook, T. Gkritzalis, K. O’Brien, N. R. Bates, S.-I. Nakaoka, D. Bakker, T. Steinhoff, M. Kramp, K. Tedesco, M. Telszewski and A. Sutton (2025). First steps to implement SOCONET-Tier 1 measurements and data delivery, SOCONET program document, IOCCP, 27pp. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15681842
- Palevsky, H.I., Clayton, S., et al (2023) OOI Biogeochemical Sensor Data: Best Practices & User Guide, Version 1.1.1. Ocean Observatories Initiative Biogeochemical Sensor Data Working Group, 134pp. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25607/OBP-1865.2
- Pierrot, D., and T. Steinhoff (2019). Installation of autonomous underway pCO2 instruments onboard ships of opportunity. NOAA Technical Report, OAR-AOML-50, doi:10.25923/ffz6-0x48, 31 pp.
- EU FP7 The Fixed point Open Ocean Observatory network (FixO3) Handbook of Best Practices, June 2016
- Manual for Real-Time Quality Control of Dissolved Oxygen Observations, April 2015
- Manual for Real-Time Quality Control of Dissolved Nutrients Observations, September 2015
- Recommendation for a Quality Flag Scheme for the Exchange of Oceanographic and Marine Meteorological Data, April 2013
- Addendum to the Guide to Best Practices for Ocean Acidifcation Research and Data Reporting, October 2015
- Guide to Best Practices for Ocean Acidification Research and Data Reporting, 2010
- GO-SHIP Repeat Hydrography Manual: A collection of Expert Reports and Guidelines, 2010
- Guide to Best Practices for Ocean CO2 Measurements, October 2007
- Recommendations for autonomous underway CO2 measuring systems and data-reduction routines, April 2009
REFERENCE MATERIALS
- Report from the IOCCP-JAMSTEC 2015 Inter-laboratory Calibration exercise of a Certified Reference Material for Nutrients in Seawater (as pdf)
- For inquires related to purchasing Certified Reference Materials for oceanic CO2 measurements please contact Andrew Dickson's group at
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . - Below you can find some information on batches of CRMs produced so far, and 3 references describing the Reference Material program.
- Information on batches of Certified Reference Material for oceanic CO2 measurements (sample Certificate of Analysis for Batch 148, 1 May 2015)
- Standards for Ocean Measurements, Dickson 2010. (as pdf)
- The stability and reproducibility of Tris buffers in synthetic seawater, Nemzer and Dickson, 2005. (as pdf)
- Reference materials for oceanic CO2 analysis: a method for the certification of total alkalinity, Dickson et al., 2003. (as pdf)
OTHER
- Broker, W. S., & Peng, T. S. (1982). Tracers in the Sea. Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, 10964, 690.
DATA FORMATS
- Recommended Data and Metadata Formats workshop report
TOOLBOXES
CO2 system calculation tools
- Comparison of 10 packages that compute ocean carbonate chemistry (as pdf), some listed below:
- CO2SYS in MATLAB
- CO2SYS in Python
- CO2SYS in Excel
- CO2SYS in Excel (after Pelletier et al. 2007)
- CO2calc in Visual Basic
- csys in MATLAB
- ODV in C++
- mocsy
- seacarb in R
- with uncertainty propagation add-ons for co2sys, mocsy and seacarb - Orr et al. (2018)
AtlantOS Ocean Data QC software (for primary QC on hydrographic data)
https://github.com/ocean-data-qc/ocean-data-qc
Secondary Quality Control (2nd QC) on ocean chemistry and hydrographic data
- MATLAB Toolbox for 2nd QC by Siv Lauvset and Toste TanhuaMATLAB Toolbox for 2nd QC by Siv Lauvset and Toste Tanhua (NCEI OCADS page)
- github repo: https://github.com/sivlauvset/2nd_QC_tool
Associated paper: Lauvset & Tanhua (2015)
Air-sea CO2 gas fluxes calculation tools
OceanFlux data online configurator
Version 3 now includes:
- auto-installers and/or install instructions (e.g. you can use it on a Windows, Linux or Mac laptop)
- new capability to calculate CH4 and N2O gas fluxes
- extensive support for analysing in situ data (e.g. you can calculate gas fluxes from SOCAT and MEMENTO data)
- the toolbox is now a Python library (so you can use it from within your own code)