131aa4291926563db2fbd1e23cefd6b3 English dataset Polly Hadžiabdić British Oceanographic Data Centre Head of the BODC Requests Team Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ pointOfContact 2025-06-09T10:47:26 MEDIN 3.1.2 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP Glider observations of mesoscale physical-biological interactions off the coast of Oman (2015-2016) British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048Gliders_SG510_SG579 2018-05-17 publication 2023-12-06 creation 2023-12-08 revision EDMED6794 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ 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. Unknown University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences Unknown University Plain Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom env.enquiries@uea.ac.uk http://www.uea.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/ owner Unknown University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences Unknown University Plain Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom env.enquiries@uea.ac.uk http://www.uea.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/ originator British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ custodian British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ distributor asNeeded 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 SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2023-12-12 revision Atmospheric conditions Oceanographic geographical features GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 revision unknown SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision otherRestrictions No limitations apply Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence otherRestrictions Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence English oceans biota 58.65 59.00 23.6583 24.25 SeaVoX water bodies 2024-12-11 revision Gulf of Oman 2015-03-04 2016-03-27 Binary Delimited Network Common Data Form 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 Queste B.Y.; Heywood K.J.; Piontkovski S.A. (2018). Exploring the potential of ocean gliders: a pirate-proof technique to illuminate mesoscale physical-biological interactions off the coast of Oman (2015-2016). British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK. doi:10/cnf7 download dataset 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 2010-12-08 publication 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. 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