Important Notices:

—    7 December 2009: The GTSPP monthly best copy data sets of November 2009 will be available online within a fews days of delay. Contact NODC.GTSPP@NOAA.GOV for more information.

—    15 October 2009: OceanObs'09 GTSPP Community White Paper (PDF, 791KB)
The paper can be cited as a peer-reviewed publication: Sun, C., Thresher, A., Keeley, R., Hall, N., Hamilton, M., Chinn, P., Tran, A., Goni, G., PETIT de la VILLEON. L., Carval, T., Cowen, L., Manzella, G., Gopalakrishna, V., Guerrero, P., Reseghetti, F., Kanno, Y., Klein, B., Rickards, L., Baldoni, A., Lin, S., Ji, F., and Nagaya, Y. "The Data Management System for the Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Programme", in Proceedings of the "OceanObs.09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society" Conference (Vol. 2), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Hall, J., Harrison D.E. and Stammer, D., Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306, 2010.

—    07 October 2009: GTSPP Best Copy Data Sets for September 2009 are available here.

—    16 September 2009: The following documents are available.

• GTSPP Real-time Quality Control Manual (Second Revised Edition) (PDF, 1.9MB)
• GTSPP Bi-Annual Report for 2007-2008 (PDF, 149KB)

—    15 January 2009: GTSPP Report to IODE-XX Session is available

Objectives

• Provide a timely and complete data and information base of ocean temperature and salinity profile data of known and documented quality.
• Develop and implement data flow monitoring systems to improve the capture and timeliness of real time and delayed mode data.
• Facilitate the development and provision of a wide variety of useful data, analyses, and information products to clients.