BGS Hosted Metadata
Physical Oceanography Datasets generated in the Western Core Box Area around South Georgia (2006 - onwards)
The Western Core Box dataset comprises measurements of physical oceanographic parameters and complementary meteorological data collected as part of the British Antarctic Survey Long Term and Monitoring Survey Program. Data collection covers the sea area around South Georgia Island and spans from 2006 to the present day. Data collection has a roughly annual frequency and is done through hydrographic surveys with a Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) and via the ships' underway monitoring system. Measurements include water temperature, conductivity, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), transmittance, fluorescence and oxygen concentrations, as well as air temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, total incidence radiation (TIR), wind speed and direction. The Western Core Box survey has been implemented to measure the change and variability in the Earth system and monitoring of long-term processes. It also provides valuable information on the status of the marine ecosystem in this area. All data are collected by the British Antarctic Survey. The data are subject to a two year organisational moratorium from collection after which they become publicaly available.
Simple
- Alternate title
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048WesternCoreBoxdataset
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-09-23
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-02-19
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6566
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Antarctic Survey
Unknown
Owner British Antarctic Survey
Unknown
Originator British Oceanographic Data Centre
Custodian British Oceanographic Data Centre
Distributor
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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SeaDataNet PDV
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- Electrical conductivity of the water column
- Temperature of the water column
- Salinity of the water column
- Air pressure
- Vertical spatial coordinates
- Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
- Atmospheric humidity
- Wind strength and direction
- Air temperature
- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
- Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
- Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere
- Platform or instrument orientation
- Density of the water column
- Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
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INSPIRE themes
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MEDIN metadata record availability
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Vertical Coverages
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations apply
- Other constraints
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Data are only available to members of a designated organisation or virtual organisation, following agreement to the terms and conditions of the British Oceanographic Data Centre Data Licence. The licence terms and conditions are available via https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/documents/nodb/267795/
- 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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- Location
- Elevation
- Biota
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Oceans
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- Geographic identifier
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Southern Ocean
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Weddell Sea
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Scotia Sea
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Begin date
- 2006-04-01
- End date
- 2021-12-20 After
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
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OGP
- Distribution format
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Name Version Network Common Data Form Ocean Data View
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/6566/ 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
- Yes
- Statement
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This dataset was created by the British Antarctic Survey 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; lowered current profilers; bathythermographs; thermosalinographs; salinity sensor; flow meters; Global Navigation Satellite System receivers; water pressure sensors; CTD; transmissometers; water temperature sensor; expendable CTDs; meteorological packages.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 15f3bcd45db35dcf80bd979f1ce2bc8f 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
Point of contact
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