A short online survey or quality control/quality assurance procedures was carried out requesting information about procedures and details of the manuals, guidelines and special software that are used by respondents for ocean profile data. This was to assist the intersessional working group established through Resolution IODE-XVIII. 4 to carry out its work that including: (i) review existing quality control procedures and software; (ii) discuss quality control issues of historical, real-time, delayed-mode and modern ocean profile data; (iii) prepare a report on (i) and (ii) above. |