BGS Hosted Metadata
Glider observations of mesoscale physical-biological interactions off the coast of Oman (2015-2016)
This dataset consists of observations from two autonomous underwater gliders deployed by the University of East Anglia, UK and Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. The two Seagliders, Humpback (serial number SG579) and Orca (serial number SG510), collected data to investigate physical-biological interactions in the water column. The gliders were deployed in the Gulf of Oman approximately 10 km from Muscat, at the 120 m isobath. Both gliders repeatedly surveyed a 76 km section across the shelf, continental slope and open ocean between 24°15' N, 59° E and 23°39.5' N, 58°39' E. Humpback, SG579, obtained 1,424 vertical profiles over a 91 day period (04 March 2015 to 03 June 2015), repeating the section 24 times. Orca, SG510, obtained 1,646 vertical profiles over a 109 day period (09 December 2015 to 27 March 2016), repeating the section 28 times. The glider data were processed using the UEA Seaglider Toolbox and standard techniques were used for calibration of the data. The data are held at BODC as a series of netCDF, .eng and .log files alongside a .mat file containing all processed data.
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048Gliders_SG510_SG579
- Date (Publication)
- 2018-05-17
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-12-06
- Date (Revision)
- 2023-12-08
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6794
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role 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 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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- Temperature of the water column
- Light absorption in the water column
- Electrical conductivity of the water column
- Salinity of the water column
- Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
- Platform or instrument orientation
- Density of the water column
- Optical backscatter
- Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
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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
- 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
- Other constraints
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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
- Biota
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- Geographic identifier
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Gulf of Oman
SeaVoX water bodies 2024-12-11 revision
- Begin date
- 2015-03-04
- End date
- 2016-03-27
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
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OGP
- Distribution format
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Name Version Binary Delimited Network Common Data Form
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/697eb954-f60c-603b-e053-6c86abc00062/ Published dataset - doi:10.5285/697eb954-f60c-603b-e053-6c86abc00062
- 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.
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- Yes
- Statement
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This dataset was created by scientists from the University of East Anglia following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for archiving and publication in the BODC Published Data Library (PDL).
Metadata
- File identifier
- 131aa4291926563db2fbd1e23cefd6b3 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-06-09T10:47:26
- Metadata standard name
- MEDIN
- Metadata standard version
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3.1.2
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre
Polly Hadžiabdić
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