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Journal Articles

CODC-S: a quality-controlled global ocean salinity profiles dataset

Published in Scientific Data, 2025

This paper is about a quality-controlled global ocean salinity profiles dataset (CODC-S) used to support diverse oceanographic and climatic research

Recommended citation: Tan Z, Zhu Y, Cheng L, Gouretski V, Pan Y, Yuan H, Wang Z, Li G, Song X, Zhang B, Bao S, Li Y, Zhu J. 2025. CODC-S: A quality-controlled global ocean salinity profiles dataset. Scientific Data, 12: 917. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05172-9
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Record High Temperatures in the Ocean in 2024

Published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2025

This paper is about the sea surface temperatures and deeper water temperatures reached a new record high in 2024

Recommended citation: Cheng L. J. Abraham, K. E. Trenberth, J. Reagan, H.-M. Zhang, A. Storto, K. von Schuckmann, Y. Pan, Y. Zhu, M. E. Mann, J. Zhu, F. Wang, F. Yu, R. Locarnini, J. Fasullo, B. Huang, G. Graham, X. Yin, V. Gouretski, F. Zheng, Y. Li, B. Zhang, L. Wan, X. Chen, D. Wang, L. Feng, X. Song, Y. Liu, F. Reseghetti, S. Simoncelli, G. Chen, R. Zhang, A. Mishonov, Z. Tan, W. Wei, H. Yuan, G. Li, Q. Ren, L. Cao, Y. Lu, J. Du, K. Lyu, A. Sulaiman, M. Mayer, H. Wang, Z. Ma, S. Bao, H. Yan, Z. Liu, C. Yang, X. Liu, Z. Hausfather, T. Szekely, F. Gues: 2025: Record High Temperatures in the Ocean in 2024. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
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DC_OCEAN: an open-source algorithm for identiﬁcation of duplicates in ocean databases

Published in Frontiers of Marine Sciences, 2024

This paper is about the duplicate checking of global ocean databases

Recommended citation: Song X†, Tan Z†, Locarnini R, Simoncelli S, Cowley R, Kizu S, Boyer T, Reseghetti F, Castelao G, Gouretski V, Cheng L, 2024: DC_OCEAN: an open-source algorithm for identiﬁcation of duplicates in ocean databases. Front. Mar. Sci. 11.
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IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset

Published in Earth System Science Data, 2024

This paper is about the release of the IAP temperature grid data (version 4)

Recommended citation: Cheng, L., Pan, Y., Tan, Z., Zheng, H., Zhu, Y., Wei, W., Du, J., Yuan, H., Li, G., Ye, H., Gouretski, V., Li, Y., Trenberth, K., Abraham, J., Jin, Y., Reseghetti, F., Lin, X., Zhang, B., Chen, G., Mann, M., and Zhu, J., 2024: IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset, Earth Syst. Sci. Data.
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A new ocean data quality control system reveals a stronger ocean warming rate

Published in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 2023

This paper is about the development of the ocean data quality control algorithm (CODC-QC)

Recommended citation: Tan Z, Cheng L*, Gouretski V, Zhang B, Wang Y, Li F, Liu Z, and Zhu J., 2023: A new automatic quality control system for ocean profile observations and impact on ocean warming estimate. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 194, 103961
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Quality control for ocean observations: From present to future

Published in Scientia Sinica Terrae, 2022

This paper is about the review of quality control for ocean observations

Recommended citation: Tan, Z., B. Zhang, X. Wu, M. Dong, L. Cheng*, 2021: Quality control for ocean observations: From present to future. Scientia Sinica Terrae
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Examining the Inﬂuence of Recording System on the Pure Temperature Error in XBT Data

Published in Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 2021

This paper is about the advance of instrument correction scheme of XBT data

Recommended citation: Tan Z., Reseghetti F*, Abraham J, Cowley R, Chen K, Zhu J, Zhang B, Cheng L, 2021: Examining the Influence of Recording System on the Pure Temperature Error in XBT Data. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 38, 759-776.
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