We would like to announce the release of a new, fully open source tool, which was designed to ease the Level 1 quality control of hydrographic cruise bottle data before submitting it to the data centres. The tool was developed under the H2020 AtlantOS project. The use of AtlantOS Ocean Data QC is fully multi-platform as installers are provided for Windows, MacOS and several Linux distributions. Visit the GitHub page (https://github.com/ocean-data-qc/ocean-data-qc) to install the tool, view the demo, find out about the details, or post comments on issues/wishes for future releases.

The tool can read WHP exchange files and some .csv formats, and generate a graphical interface to manage them, allowing to assign flags. It can also update saved sessions with new data. Finally, results can be saved to compliant WHP exchange (even when read in other format), csv, or own format, and a log of QC actions done can also be exported. The tool is built in python 3 and uses javascript for graphical interface and octave for some calculations, details are provided in the web page. Installing GNU Octave is heavily encouraged, as many calculations rely on them (CO2SYS, CANYON-B,...).

You can download it from main GitHub page, under "releases" section or by cloning repository and manually installing.

On behalf of Antón Velo, Jesus Cacabelos, Fiz F. Pérez and Toste Tanhua.