ÿþ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Technical Reports of the Meteorological Research Institute No. 58</title> <BODY bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="../../../../Welcome.html">Top</a>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<a href="../../index_en.html">Technical Reports of the MRI </a>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;No. 58<br><br> <CENTER> <basefont size="3"> <font size=+3>Technical Reports of the Meteorological Research Institute</font><br> <br> <font size=+3>No. 58</font><br> <br> <font size=+3> 2006 Inter-laboratory Comparison Study of a Reference Material for Nutrients in Seawater</font><br> <br> <font size=+2>M. Aoyama, J. Barwell-Clarke, S. Becker, M. Blum, Braga E. S., S. C. Coverly,<br> E. Czobik, I. Dahllof, M. H. Dai, G. O. Donnell, C. Engelke, G. C. Gong,<br> Gi-Hoon Hong, D. J. Hydes, M. M. Jin, H. Kasai, R. Kerouel, Y. Kiyomono,<br> M. Knockaert, N. Kress, K. A. Krogslund, M. Kumagai, S. Leterme,<br> Yarong Li, S. Masuda, T. Miyao, T. Moutin, A. Murata, N. Nagai, <br> G.Nausch, M. K. Ngirchechol, A. Nybakk, H. Ogawa, J. van Ooijen, H. Ota, <br> J. M. Pan, C. Payne, O. Pierre-Duplessix, M. Pujo-Pay, T. Raabe, K. Saito, <br> K. Sato, C. Schmidt, M. Schuett, T. M. Shammon, J. Sun, T. Tanhua, <br> L. White, E.M.S. Woodward, P. Worsfold, P. Yeats, T. Yoshimura, <br> A. Youenou, J. Z. Zhang<br> </font><br> <br> <font size=+2>December 2008</font><br> <a href="../../index_en.html">[back]</a> <br> <TABLE width="800" border="1"> <tr> <td align="center" width="100"><BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_1.pdf#page=5">Preface</a></td><td align="center" width="300"rowspan=4><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_1.pdf">PDF[1.06MB]</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100"><BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_1.pdf#page=7">Abstract</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100"> <BR></td><td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_1.pdf#page=9">Contents</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100"> <BR></td><td><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_1.pdf#page=10">List of Tables and Figures</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100"> 1</td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=1">Introduction</a></td><td align="center" width="300"rowspan=20><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf">PDF[1.93MB]</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">2<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=3">Samples</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">2.1<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=3">Preparation of RMNS samples and timetable for the inter-laboratorycomparison study</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">2.2<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=3">Selection of determinands</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">2.3<BR></td><td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=3">Sample homogeneity</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">3<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=5">Participants and response</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">4<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=7">Statistical treatment</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">4.1<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=7">Raw means, medians, and standard deviations</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">4.2<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=7">Robust statistics</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">4.3<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=7">Consensus means, medians, and standard deviations</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">4.4<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=7">Calculation of Z-scores</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">5<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=8">Results</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">5.1<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=8">Ranked scatter plots of the results</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">5.2<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=15">Consensus medians, means, and standard deviations</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">5.3<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=17">Comparison between consensus standard deviations and homogeneities for sample #2</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">5.4<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=17">Analytical precisions and consensus standard deviations reported by the participating laboratories</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">5.5<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=21">Z-scores</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100">6<BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=35">Conclusions</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100"><BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=35">Acknowledgements</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100"><BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_2.pdf#page=36">References</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100"><BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_3.pdf#page=1">Appendix I&nbsp List of participating laboratories</a><td align="center" width="300"rowspan=5><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_3.pdf">PDF[2.81MB]</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100"><BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_3.pdf#page=9">Appendix II&nbsp Results submitted by participating laboratories</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100"><BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_3.pdf#page=21">Appendix III&nbsp Scatter plots and histograms of the results</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100"><BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_3.pdf#page=53">Apendix IV&nbsp Documents</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100"><BR></td> <td width="400"><a href="tec_rep_mri_58_3.pdf#page=61">Appendix V&nbsp History of nutrient inter-laboratory comparison study</a></td> </tr> </table> </center></BODY> </html>