CHENG Lijing Elected Co-Chair of International Quality-Controlled Ocean Database Project
On July 11-12, 2023, the International Quality-Controlled Ocean Database (IQuOD) Steering Committee Meeting was held in Potsdam, Germany. Through voting at the meeting, CHENG Lijing from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Gui Castelao from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA were officially elected as Co-Chairs of IQuOD for the new term.
IQuOD was initiated in 2013 by ocean data management and processing researchers from over 20 institutions globally, and has received support from the Climate Variability and Predictability Program (CLIVAR), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO/International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE), Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), and others. The primary scientific goal of IQuOD is to promote international exchange and collaborative research and development in ocean subsurface temperature and salinity data processing and management, in order to generate unbiased, rigorously quality-controlled, high-quality datasets that can be used for climate studies and other applications.
In the coming years, the IQuOD team will continue to collaborate on data quality control, bias correction, data management, AI training dataset establishment and application, among other areas, in order to improve the quality of ocean subsurface temperature and salinity data. Currently, IQuOD has 21 participating institutions, including the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, UK Met Office, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, etc. (
https://www.iquod.org/)
