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.



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

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

Optional activities of the ARCs include:

  1. develop climatologies
  2. prepare and distribute Argo data products
  3. provide scientific Q/C
  4. coordinate Argo float deployment
  5. develop new Q/C tests
  6. compare Argo data with model output
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  Responsibility by institute: 
 
CSIRO   
hydrography
IPRC  
modeling
JAMSTEC  
hydrography
    Countries currently involved with PARC: 
 
Australia Korea
Canada Russia
China USA
Japan
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