Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP)
Projects
30 Nov 1999
The Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP) is a cooperative international project to develop and maintain a global ocean Temperature-Salinity resource with data that are both up-to-date and of the highest quality. Both real-time data transmitted over the Global Telecommunications System (GTS), and delayed-mode data received through the IODE's National Oceanographic Data Centres are acquired and incorporated into a continuously managed database. Countries contributing to the project are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United States. Canada's Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) leads the project, and has the operational responsibility to gather and process the real-time data. MEDS accumulates real-time data from several sources via the GTS, check the data for several types of errors, and remove duplicate copies of the same observation before passing the data on to the US NODC. The quality control procedures used in GTSPP were developed by MEDS, who also coordinated the publication of those procedures through the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). The GTSPP Real-time Quality Control Manual (IOC Manuals and Guides #22) has been produced within the context of GTSPP and describes the means by which data quality is assessed and the actions taken as a result of the procedures.
Related Topics: International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE)
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