A semiautomated approach for quality controlling large historical ocean temperature archives

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 990-1003

  Gronell, Ann ^a   Wijffels, Susan E ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; HIGHWAY BRIDGES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

OCEAN TEMPERATURES; STATISTICAL SCREENING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

DATA QUALITY; OPTIMIZATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; UPPER OCEAN;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 51749086115     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECHO539.1     Document Type: Article

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