GTSPP(Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Programme)

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Database Overview
Data Holdings and Streams
Data Quality Tests
Duplicates Identification
- Real-Time Data Duplicates Identification
- Delayed-Mode Data Duplicates Identification
Unique Data Tagging Scheme
NetCDF Primer
XBT Fall Rate Discussion
Meeting Reports
GTSPP Data Processing Flows Diagram(JPG)
GTSPP Leaflet (PDF)
GTSPP Poster (PDF)

About Data
User-Defined Data Sets
Real-Time Data Sets
Best-Copy Data Sets
Data Format Description
- ASCII Format
- NetCDF Format
GTSPP Data Users' Manual (PDF)
Ocean Boundary Definitations

Data Quality Codes
Data Type Codes
Parameter Action Code
Parameter Codes for
Platform Codes Sorted by
Surface Code Values A-G
- ANT$
- AQA$
- BCI$
- BMS$
- BQA$
- BQZ$
- BTQ$
- CLDA
- CLDT
- DPC$
- GGCM
- GGST
Surface Code Values I-S
- IST$
- ITS#
- MRT#X
- PEQ$
- PRT$
- RCT$
- RCT#
- SEAS
- STAT
Surface Code Values V-X
- VDIC
- VISB
- VISC
- VIS#
- VSB#
- WCL$
- WCLR
- WDC$
- WDIC
- SDR#
- WFBS
- WSC$
- WVH$
- WVH#
- WVP$
- WVP#
- WVR#
- WWC#
- WWC#
- XDIN
- XDMT
- XTRS
WMO Codes

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1. How to acknowledge GTSPP data?
2. How to encode the GTSPP quality tests?
3. How to find the XBT information?
4. How to interpret the GTSPP ASCII files?
5. How to interpret the GTSPP quality test codes and results?
6. How to select only stations with temperature and salinity profiles
7. How to select only stations that have a quality flag of 'good' for the position and date/time
8. What are the GTSPP Best Copy files?
9. What are the GTSPP QC flags?
10. What are the GTSPP QC tests?

WMO Code Tables

Beaufort Code

NODC Code Table 1555

Code Table 0500: Cloud Type

Code Table 0877 and 0885: Direction (true)

Code Table 1770: I_x I_x I_x - Instrument type for temperature, with fall rate equation coefficients for XBT

Code Table 2266: K5 - indicator for the method of current measurement

Code Table 2700: Total Cloud amount

Code Table 4300: Horizontal visibility

Code Table 4677: Present weather reported from a manned weather station

Code Table 4770: XrXr -Recorder Type

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