BGS Hosted Metadata
Plankton Reactivity in the Marine Environment (PRIME) project dataset (1971-1996)
The dataset comprises a diverse set of physical, chemical and biological data including: bacteria, carbon, chlorophyll, dissolved gases, light levels, nutrients, phytoplankton, productivity, respiration, salinity, temperature, trace elements and zooplankton. Measurements were gathered from the North Atlantic and Norwegian fjord waters between 1971 and 1998. The data arise from three sources: biological and hydrographic data collected between 1971 and 1975 at Ocean Weather Ship (OWS) India in the North Atlantic; conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) casts, water samples, net samples and meteorological data from the four week Bergen Mesocosm experiment at Espegrend Marine Biological Field Station (Norway) in 1995; and the six week RRS Discovery cruise 221 to the North East Atlantic in 1996, where physical, chemical and biological data were collected. The data were collected using a variety of methods including: more than 500 CTD and SeaSoar profiles; nearly 1000 water bottle samples; over 600 net hauls; over 450 Secchi disk deployments; nearly 4000 multisizer samples; 23 production experiments; four drifting buoy tracks and 40 days of weather observations. The PRIME programme aimed to lay the basis for mathematical models to describe the role of plankton in biogeochemical fluxes within the oceans which have implications for climate regulation. The project was hosted by the School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor. Data management was undertaken by the British Oceanographic Data Centre and over 95% of the data collected are now assembled on a CD-ROM. The data are accompanied by an extensive users' guide (covering sampling protocol documentation), the structures used to store the data, and the data interrogation tools.
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048080
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-09-30
- Date (Revision)
- 2017-02-01
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED195
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre
Custodian British Oceanographic Data Centre
Distributor University of Liverpool, Department of Earth Sciences
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Owner University of Liverpool, Department of Earth Sciences
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Originator University of Wales Swansea, Natural Sciences
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Owner University of Wales Swansea, Natural Sciences
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Originator University of Warwick, Department of Biological Sciences
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Owner University of Warwick, Department of Biological Sciences
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Originator University of Stirling, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences
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Owner University of Stirling, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences
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Originator University of Glamorgan
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Owner University of Glamorgan
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Originator University of Exeter, Biosciences Department
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Owner University of Exeter, Biosciences Department
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Originator Napier University School of Life Sciences
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Owner Napier University School of Life Sciences
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Originator Queen's University Marine Laboratory
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Owner Queen's University Marine Laboratory
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Originator University of Bergen
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Owner University of Bergen
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Originator University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences
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Owner University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences
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Originator Southampton Oceanography Centre
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Owner Southampton Oceanography Centre
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Originator University of Wales, School of Ocean Sciences
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Owner University of Wales, School of Ocean Sciences
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Originator Fisheries Research Services, Aberdeen Marine Laboratory
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Owner Fisheries Research Services, Aberdeen Marine Laboratory
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Originator Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science
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Owner Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science
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Originator Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Owner Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Originator
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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SeaDataNet PDV
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- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
- Molecular biology parameters
- Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
- Concentration of inorganic sulphur species in the water column
- Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
- Temperature of the water column
- Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
- Microzooplankton non taxonomy-related biomass expressed as carbon per unit volume of the water column
- Solar Radiation
- Zooplankton non taxonomy-related abundance per unit volume of the water column
- Zooplankton biovolume
- Microzooplankton generic abundance in water bodies
- Salinity of the water column
- Precipitation and evaporation
- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere
- Oxygen production and respiration in the water column
- Air temperature
- Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
- Lagrangian currents and transport rates in the water column
- Bathymetry and Elevation
- Stable isotopes in water bodies
- Bacteria generic abundance in water bodies
- Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
- Wind strength and direction
- Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column
- Phytoplankton generic biomass in water bodies
- Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water column
- Ammonium and ammonia concentration parameters in water bodies
- Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
- Primary production in the water column
- Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
- Air pressure
- Cloud cover height and extent
- Water body lipid concentrations
- Phytoplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies
- Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column
- Zooplankton taxonomy-related abundance per unit volume of the water column
- Dissolved metal concentrations in the water column
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INSPIRE themes
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Vertical Coverages
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MEDIN metadata record availability
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations apply
- Other constraints
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Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
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Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Environment
- Biota
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- Geographic identifier
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North Atlantic Ocean
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Geographic identifier
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North Sea
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Begin date
- 1971
- End date
- 1996
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
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OGP
- Distribution format
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Name Version Delimited Network Common Data Form Ocean Data View
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/products/data/bodc_products/prime/ BODC data product
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/195/ BODC online data delivery service
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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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
- Explanation
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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.
- Pass
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- Statement
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This dataset was created by the organisations with the "originator" role in this metadata record following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for ingestion into one of the schemas of the National Oceanographic Database (NODB). During ingestion BODC undertake quality control, documentation and metadata enhancement procedures appropriate to the type of data. For an overview please see http://www.bodc.ac.uk/about/information_technology/data_processing_steps/. BODC supply full information about data collection, data processing and data quality with all data requests to enable users to assess data suitability themselves .
Instrument(s) used to collect data: anemometers; meteorological packages; fluorometers; satellite tracking system; radiometers; thermosalinographs; single-beam echosounders; plankton nets; particulates samplers; observers; autoanalysers; mass spectrometers; bench particle sizers; CTD undulators; transmissometers; CTD; dissolved gas sensors; plankton categorisers and counters.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 0d0f965005855d9fbb5a28d97f7ae020 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2021-12-20T06:31:16
- 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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