BGS Hosted Metadata
Marine Productivity Programme Data Set (2000 - 2002)
The Marine Productivity (MarProd) programme data set comprises physical, biological and biogeochemical data, including hydrographic profiles (temperature, salinity, fluorescence, dissolved oxygen, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR)), and samples of nutrients, suspended particulate material, dissolved material, phytoplankton and zooplankton. These data were supplemented by continuous underway measurements of bathymetry, surface hydrography (temperature, salinity, fluorescence and attenuance), meteorology (wind speed and direction, PAR and total incident irradiance, air temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure), remote sensing of sea surface temperature and ocean colour, and by production experiments. The data were collected in UK shelf seas and the North Atlantic Ocean between 2000 and 2002. Surface biogeochemical parameters (nutrients, photosynthesis, production, suspended particulate material and dissolved organic material) were measured during cruises in the Irish Sea in May, June and July 2001, while ongoing hydrographic and plankton time-series at Plymouth Marine Laboratory's L4 sampling station are also included in the data set. However, the bulk of the data were collected during a major fieldwork campaign of four dedicated research cruises on RRS Discovery between November 2001 and December 2002. A total of over 800 gear deployments were performed at 159 stations mainly distributed in the Irminger Sea and Iceland Basin, facilitating the measurement of water mass distribution, velocity field and mixed layer properties. A comprehensive water sampling programme was undertaken for the purposes of plant pigment and microscopic analyses; biomass estimations of different taxonomic/functional groups of microplankton (picoplankton, phytoplankton and microzooplankton); high resolution profiles of inorganic nutrient concentrations; and determination of abundance of key zooplankton species (Calanus finmarchicus, Oithona spp. and euphausiids). Process studies were undertaken to obtain information about factors controlling the reproduction, growth, mortality and behaviour of individual species using physiological studies (feeding experiments, egg production and nauplii development, species interactions) and analyses of biochemical composition (lipids and hormones studies, analyses of carbon/nitrogen and stable isotope ratios composition). Phytoplankton primary production was measured using carbon uptake on the last two cruises and additional data were collected using a Fast Repetition Rate Fluorometer (FRRF) through continuous surface underway sampling and vertical deployments. MarProd's main objective was to investigate the population dynamics of key zooplankton species in UK shelf seas and in the northern Atlantic with emphasis on the manner in which physical factors such as water temperature and oceanic currents influence their distribution, abundance and productivity. The MarProd Programme involved researchers from numerous institutions from the UK, Ireland and Spain. The data are archived at the British Oceanographic Data Centre.
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048107
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-09-17
- Date (Revision)
- 2017-03-30
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED222
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Swansea University School of the Environment and Society
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Owner Swansea University School of the Environment and Society
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Originator Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Owner Plymouth 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 Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland
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Owner Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland
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Originator Gatty Marine Laboratory
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Owner Gatty Marine Laboratory
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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 Southampton Oceanography Centre
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Owner Southampton Oceanography Centre
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Originator University of Aberdeen, School of Biological Sciences
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Owner University of Aberdeen, School of Biological Sciences
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Originator University of Liverpool, School of Biological Sciences
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Owner University of Liverpool, School of Biological Sciences
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Originator AZTI, Headquarters Pasaia(Gipuzkoa)
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Owner AZTI, Headquarters Pasaia(Gipuzkoa)
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Originator Heriot-Watt University School of Life Sciences
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Owner Heriot-Watt University School of Life 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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MEDIN metadata record availability
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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- Solar Radiation
- Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
- Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
- Air temperature
- Bathymetry and Elevation
- Ocean colour and earth-leaving visible waveband spectral radiation
- Zooplankton taxonomy-related abundance per unit volume of the water column
- Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
- Primary production in the water column
- Temperature of the water column
- Salinity of the water column
- Zooplankton egg hatch proportion
- Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
- Skin temperature of the water column
- Zooplankton feeding
- Atmospheric humidity
- Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column
- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere
- Zooplankton and zoobenthos morphological parameters
- Biota lipid concentrations
- Wind strength and direction
- Microzooplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies
- Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
- Phytoplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies
- Dissolved total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column
- Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
- Zooplankton reproduction rate parameters
- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
- Vertical velocity of the water column (currents)
- Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
- Air pressure
- Concentration of inorganic sulphur species in the water column
- Zooplankton growth rates
- Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
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SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations apply
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Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
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- 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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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Oceans
- Biota
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- Geographic identifier
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North Atlantic Ocean
SeaVoX water bodies 2024-12-11 revision
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Irish Sea
SeaVoX water bodies 2024-12-11 revision
- Geographic identifier
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English Channel
SeaVoX water bodies 2024-12-11 revision
- Begin date
- 2000
- End date
- 2002
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
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OGP
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Name Version Delimited Network Common Data Form Ocean Data View Text or Plaintext
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/222/ BODC online data delivery service
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/2e18811e-99f5-8475-e063-7086abc02b26/ Published dataset - doi:10.5285/2e18811e-99f5-8475-e063-7086abc02b26
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- 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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- 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; radiometers; thermosalinographs; single-beam echosounders; plankton recorders; plankton nets; discrete water samplers; ocean colour radiometers; autoanalysers; high performance liquid chromatographs; titrators; spectrophotometers; bench fluorometers; bench particle sizers; acoustic backscatter sensors; CTD; current profilers; dissolved gas sensors; plankton categorisers and counters; active fluorometers; shipboard incubators.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 20e06716cb5f587e8b3203e6ffebb7aa XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-14T17:13:57
- 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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