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UK Argo Programme - profiling float data set (2001 onwards)
The UK Argo program is an active contributor to the international Argo program, offering a comprehensive data set vital for supporting global oceanographic research. The data set includes a mixture of near-real-time and delayed-mode data collected by profiling floats, quality controlled to operational ocean forecasting standards and to climate research standards respectively. Real-time data are available within 24 hours of the float surfacing, while delayed-mode data become available within 12 months of the profile date. UK Argo floats data are typically managed by the British Oceanographic Data Centre. Argo floats operate in profiling ‘cycles’, normally repeated every 10 days throughout their lifetime. As part of a cycle, floats drift at their parking depth of approximately 1000m for 5 or 10 days, then sink to 2000m before starting their ascent to the surface, taking temperature and conductivity measurements at regular intervals. Since 2012, biogeochemical sensors have gradually been rolled out across a portion of the UK Argo fleet, reflecting the broadening research focus of the international Argo program. The UK Argo data set now includes measurements of dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll fluorescence, optical backscatter, pH, nitrate and irradiance. Moreover, an array of Deep Argo floats have recently been adding observations as deep as 6000m, and deployments have ventured to higher latitudes. The UK Argo data set has a variety of uses, including assimilation into operational weather forecasts in near-real-time to climate and ocean biogeochemistry research with the delayed mode data. In addition to its national efforts, the British Oceanographic Data Centre manages floats deployed by partner nations including Mauritius, Saudi Arabia, Ireland, and Portugal. This collaboration underscores the cross-border cooperative nature of the program, which is fundamental to its world-wide success.
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048098
- Date (Publication)
- 2018-05-18
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-05-02
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-05-14
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED213
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
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Owner National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
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Originator Met Office, Exeter
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Owner Met Office, Exeter
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Originator British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Owner British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Originator United Kingdom Hydrographic Office
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Owner United Kingdom Hydrographic Office
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Originator Marine Institute
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Owner Marine Institute
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Originator Southampton Oceanography Centre
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Owner Southampton Oceanography Centre
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Originator British Oceanographic Data Centre
Custodian British Oceanographic Data Centre
Distributor
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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- Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
- Temperature of the water column
- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
- Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column
- Salinity of the water column
- Lagrangian currents and transport rates in the water column
- Optical backscatter
- Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
- Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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MEDIN metadata record availability
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SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
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- No limitations apply
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Data are freely available
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No conditions apply
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Biota
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- Geographic identifier
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World
SeaVoX water bodies 2023-09-13 revision
- Begin date
- 2001-01-01
- End date
- 2024-08-13 After
- Supplemental Information
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Publication year: 2020-09-15
Publication title: Argo Data 1999–2019: Two Million Temperature-Salinity Profiles and Subsurface Velocity Observations From a Global Array of Profiling Floats
Publication authors: Wong, Annie P. S. et al.
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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OGP
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Name Version Network Common Data Form
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://fleetmonitoring.euro-argo.eu/dashboard?Country=United%20Kingdom Data Management webpages
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Protocol Linkage Name https://doi.org/10.17882/42182 Argo float data and metadata from Global Data Assembly Centre (Argo GDAC)
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-argo.ifremer.fr/dac/bodc/ Argo UK data delivery page
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- Dataset
Conformance result
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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BODC protocols are based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model enabling BODC to iterate towards compliance with the on-going evolution and development of community requirements including FAIR (Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,Reusable), TRUST (Transparency, Responsibility, User community, Sustainability, Technology) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics). Data managers quality assure submissions and assemble the metadata necessary for curation. Submissions (as received) are placed in a long-term accession and stored in triplicate across multiple sites. Appropriate data are transferred into a standard internal format with source variable names mapped to controlled vocabularies, documentation assembled, and metadata loaded into BODC databases. Access to these data is through direct request, the BODC website and through partner repositories such as SeaDataNet. Access control is attained by assigning a data policy to each set of data and this policy is used to administer access when data are requested. Discovery metadata is aligned with EU INSPIRE (through MEDIN) and SeaDataNet community standards. Data are converted to open community formats including Ocean Data View ASCII and SeaDataNet NetCDF, with data described using terms from the NERC vocabulary server. BODC submission agreements are documented on the BODC website and customer service is assured with a dedicated requests team that serve data following local regulations including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004.
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- Statement
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This dataset originates from the UK Argo fleet. Active floats send profile data in near-real-time to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) via satellite at the end of their drift and profiling cycle, which typically lasts 10 days. As the Data Assembly Centre (DAC) for the UK, BODC archives and processes UK Argo float data, and applies real-time quality-control tests. Near-real-time data are sent to the Met Office for assimilation into weather forecasting models. BODC periodically reviews float data by applying delayed-mode quality-control procedures. All data get sent to the Global Data Assembly Centre (GDAC) for distribution. BODC adheres to the procedures and protocols published by the international Argo Data Management Team, which can be found at: http://www.argodatamgt.org/Documentation.
Instrument(s) used to collect data: fluorometers; satellite tracking system; radiometers; optical backscatter sensors; water temperature sensor; nutrient analysers; salinity sensor; dissolved gas sensors; pH sensors.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 0174bec8e27255fcbe2933791dd70dd1 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-08-13T09:52:52
- Metadata standard name
- MEDIN
- Metadata standard version
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3.1.1
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre
Polly Hadžiabdić
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