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Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP)

The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) recognizes the Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) as one of the international operational activities that provide essential, sub-surface climate variables of temperature and salinity profile data. GTSPP provides timely and complete data with documented quality flags and implements internationally agreed quality control and overall management of ocean data fully in accordance with the GCOS action plan

Objectives

• Provide timely access to the highest quality, highest resolution temperature and salinity profile data.
• Implement data flow monitoring system for improving the capture and timeliness of real-time and delayed-mode data.
• Improve and implement agreed and uniform quality control and duplicates management systems.
• Facilitate the development and provision of a wide variety of useful data analyses, data and information, products, and data sets

Citing GTSPP data should be referenced as follows:

Sun, C. & Co-Authors (2010). "The Data Management System for the Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Programme" in Proceedings of OceanObs.09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society (Vol. 2), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Hall, J., Harrison, D.E. & Stammer, D., Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306, doi:10.5270/OceanObs09.cwp.86

Citing data and documents from the web page should be referenced as follows:

U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center: Global Temperature–Salinity Profile Programme. December 2014. U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910. Date of Access, http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/GTSPP/.

Variables	Temperature (°C), Salinity (psu)
Zonal	Global by varies
Meridional	Global by varies
Vertical
Temporal	ocean: Jan 1990 to Dec 2016; ocean2: Dec 2017
Static?	no
Volume	atlantic: 8,166,478 profiles atlantic2: 1,465,898 profiles indian: 746,336 profiles indian2: 43,599 profiles pacific: 9,424,934 profiles pacific2: 1,239,820 profiles
Server	public:
Source	https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/GTSPP/
Acquired	June 23, 2014 (Jan 2018)
APDRC contact
Supplements	Readme_gtspp