Welcome to the Pacific Argo Regional Center (PARC)

PARC

The Pacific Argo Regional Center (PARC) has been established as a joint collaboration between the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC), the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) at the University of Hawaii, and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The PARC takes on the responsibility to validate all float data in the Pacific through rigorous scrutiny and to derive regional products based on these floats.

As a joint Argo Regional Center (ARC) for the Pacific, PARC will:

perform regional analysis of all the Argo data in the area to assess its internal consistency interannually and compared to CTD,
provide feedbacks to PIs,
provide documentation.

Optional activities of the ARCs include:

develop climatologies
prepare and distribute Argo data products
provide scientific Q/C
coordinate Argo float deployment
develop new Q/C tests
compare Argo data with model output

Responsibility by institute:


hydrography


modeling


hydrography

Countries currently involved with PARC:

Australia Korea

Canada Russia

China USA

Japan
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