Argo real-time data is subject to only coarse fully-automated quality control checks on a limited list of parameters such as pressure, temperature, salinity, oxygen or chlorophyll.

Argo delayed-mode procedures for checking sensor drifts and offsets in salinity rely on a statistical comparison of the float data with reference data. An adjustment is made when the float PI judges that it will improve the quality of the dataset.

Users should include the supplied error estimates in their usage of Argo delayed-mode salinity data.

For both near real-time and delayed mode data, proper and appropriate use is the responsibility of the user.

To properly acknowledge Argo data usage, please use the following sentence and place the appropriate Argo DOI afterwards as described below.
"These data were collected and made freely available by the International Argo Program and the national programs that contribute to it (http://www.argo.ucsd.edu,  http://argo.jcommops.org). The Argo Program is part of the Global Ocean Observing System."

There are two options when picking an Argo DOI:
(1) Pick the one associated with when you obtained the data from the Argo GDAC. Please refer to the ADMT's DOI page (http://www.argodatamgt.org/Access-to-data/Argo-DOI-Digital-Object-Identifier) to find the correct DOI to include in your publication or product.
or
(2) If you did not obtain the Argo data from the GDAC, but from an Argo data product or other source without a date for the Argo data attached to it, use the general one with no time associated with it:
Argo (2000). Argo float data and metadata from Global Data Assembly Centre (Argo GDAC). SEANOE. http://doi.org/10.17882/42182

Argo data management documentation is available on http://www.argodatamgt.org/Documentation

Argo data long-term repository is hosted in US-NCEI https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/argo