Publications and Reports

Guides, Websites, and Handbooks for Best Practices in Quantifying Uncertainty

OBPS

The Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS) is a community-led effort that provides publication, discovery and access to relevant and tested methods, from observation to application. OBPS supports the entire ocean community in sharing methods, developing best practices and capacity development in their use. It includes a repository for best practices, peer-reviewed publications, training, and user support. Check out the OBPS Uncertainty search.

OBPS Website

PiMEP

Salinity PiMEP (Pilot-Mission Exploitation Platform) is a “one stop shop” for ocean salinity measurements and a beautiful example of a community effort to estimate measurement uncertainties in a systematic and consistent manner. PiMEP allows users to compare surface salinity measurements from all available satellite and in situ platforms.

PiMEP Website

Check out these other resources:

• The “GUM” Evaluation of measurement data — Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement: https://www.bipm.org/utils/common/documents/jcgm/JCGM_100_2008_E.pdf
• Quality Assurance of Oceanographic Observations: Standards and Guidance Adopted by an International Partnership, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00706/full. Discussion of uncertainty in paper and good example of UQ in the Supplemental Material.
• Quantifying Uncertainty in Analytical Measurement, EURACHEM / CITAC Guide CG 4, https://www.eurachem.org/images/stories/Guides/pdf/QUAM2012_P1.pdf.
• Journal of Open Source Software: peer reviewed code best practices https://joss.theoj.org/