95c16d15-0568-458e-a39e-e41e60acdaa8 urn:uuid eng UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2025-06-24T22:13:53 creation ISO 19115 2016 Quality Controlled Ocean Temperature Archive (QuOTA), 1778-2005 95c16d15-0568-458e-a39e-e41e60acdaa8 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. {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[0.0, -80.0], [-150.0, -80.0], [-150.0, 40.0], [0.0, 40.0], [0.0, -80.0]]]} -150.0 0.0 -80.0 40.0 Data Link documentDigital Dataset download from QuOTA site HTML Data Link documentDigital QuOTA Home HTML Documentation Link documentDigital Description of the method used for data quality control. PDF Documentation Link documentDigital Format description DOC