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Quality Controlled Ocean Temperature Archive (QuOTA), 1778-2005

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Updated 25/06/2025

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The QuOTA project involved NOAA-IPRC and CMAR jointly undertaking to build a very high quality ocean thermal data archive by applying methods and expertise developed through the NOAA-IPRC/CMAR IOTA (Indian Ocean Thermal Archive) collaboration which was established in 1998. The Quota Project resulted in building a high quality upper ocean temperature dataset for the Indian Ocean and the South-western Pacific (east of the dateline). QuOTA contains ocean temperature data collected since 1778 and includes XBT, CT, CU, CTD, XCDT, MBT, BT, BA, DT, SST, TE, UO, bottle, drifting and moored bouy data. Quality control of the data is done by automated processes, followed by 'hand-QC' of data that fails the automated test. This results in a data set containing very little 'bad' data and any that remains is usually subtly faulty, having little impact on most analyses.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Quality Controlled Ocean Temperature Archive (QuOTA), 1778-2005
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/95c16d15-0568-458e-a39e-e41e60acdaa8
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Rebecca.Cowley@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/1778 - 28/10/2005
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Quality Controlled Ocean Temperature Archive (QuOTA), 1778-2005". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/quality-controlled-ocean-temperature-archive-quota-1778-20051