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Technical Guide

IOC-UNESCO Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS) Repository Guidelines

Author: IOC-UNESCO OBPS Team

Standard operating procedures for aligning the collection, quality control and metadata standards of ocean observation data with global best-practice guidelines.

#Metadata #Quality Control #Standards #UNESCO
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Technical Guide

Sustainable Maritime Transition: Green Ports and Emission Control Standards

Author: Directorate General of Maritime Affairs / COP31 Technical Subgroup

A national technical guideline for monitoring and reducing carbon and sulphur emissions in the Turkish Straits and ports, with a model for integration with international standards.

#Decarbonization #Blue Economy #Bosphorus
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Global Oceanography Databases & Reference Libraries Directory

Integration directory of official international databases and publication repositories used worldwide for ocean governance, biodiversity monitoring, and climate modeling:

UNESCO Database

OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System)

Provider: UNESCO / IOC (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission)

Largest global open-access database tracking geographic distribution, taxonomy, and time-series of marine species.

#Biodiversity #MarineSpecies #OpenData
NOAA Database

World Ocean Database (WOD) / NOAA NCEI

Provider: NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information)

Comprehensive archive storing millions of in-situ profiles on temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and nutrients.

#OceanChemistry #In-Situ #SST Profiles
European Data Network

SeaDataNet Infrastructure

Provider: EU National Oceanographic Data Centres Consortium

Pan-European oceanographic data infrastructure standardizing metadata catalogues and QC rules across European marine institutes.

#Metadata Standards #Pan-European #Marine Physics