Table of content

• Table of content
• Introduction
• Purpose
• Installation
• Compiled version
• Quick start
• Documentation
• Ouput file format
• References
• Issues
• Release Notes
• Links
• Technical support

Introduction

TSG-QC is a software for interactive analysis and validation of underway SST / SSS (Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Surface Salinity) measurements from a SeaBird Thermosalinograph (TSG). It has been developed under Matlab.

Purpose

TSG-QC is a tool for analysis and validation of surface temperature and salinity data acquired from a Thermosalinograph (TSG) installed on research or commercial ships.

It allows:

1. Visualization of TSG variables: Temperature, salinity, and ship speed
2. Interactive comparison with climatological values WOA and ISAS
3. Automatic quality control using selected threshold criteria
4. Data validation and adjustment with external “bucket” measurements (water samples usually collected once a day) and ARGO (profiling floats), or CTD datasets co-localized with ship tracks
5. Quantitative estimation of sensor drift

The software can deal with different input data formats: ASCII, Labview, "Real-time" Coriolis NetCDF, Seabird (*.cnv), ...

Installation

• English version
• French version

Compiled version

If you do not have a Matlab license, a compiled version is available by clicking the following links using the ftp client program Filezilla:

• version 64 bit R2016b
• version 64 bit R2020b

Read the file readme.txt.

Using tsgqc.exe requires installing the Matlab runtime. You need to get it from the same link and install it.

To obtain a version compiled under Linux (Ubuntu), send me a direct request by mail.

Quick start

Start Matlab, go to the tsg_data subdirectory, and type tsgqc to run the program. Use the File / Open menu to open a data file.

Usage:

tsgqc
tsgqc('<file>')
tsgqc('inputfile', <file>)
tsgqc('help','true')
tsgqc --help
tsgqc('inputfile', <file>, 'debug', 1)

Documentation

• English version
• French version

Ouput file format

The reference document CORTSG format GOSUD version 3.0 describing the output NetCDF format.

References

• TSG-QC: Talk by Y Gouriou, TSG-CORIOLIS meeting, 01/12/2008

Issues

We use issues to track ideas, feedback, tasks, or bugs for work on GitLab.

Release Notes

Detail the corrections, changes, or enhancements (functional or non-functional) made to the software.

For any changes, bugs, or new issues, please contact us by mail

Links

• ORE-SSS: Sea Surface Salinity Observation Service
• SeaBird: Thermosalinograph SBE 21
• GOSUD: Global Ocean Surface Underway Data project
• ODATIS: Ocean Data Information and Services

Technical support

In case of technical problems, you can contact us at the following address: hotline-tsgqc (order to prevent spam, replace at with @ in the field to:). Please report the following information:

a copy of the error message you get in the Matlab Command Windows, if any
the operating system you use (Windows 7, XP, Linux or Solaris):
    Windows: "System Properties"
    Unix: `uname -a`

under Matlab, the results of the following commands:

ver
matlabpath