NERC North Sea Project Data Set (1988-1990)

The dataset comprises hydrographic data, including salinity, temperature, depth, dissolved oxygen, transmittance (for suspended sediment), chlorophyll, irradiance, and current velocities. Both oceanographic and benthic measurements of nutrients (nitrate, nitrite, silicate, phosphate and ammonium), phytoplankton and zooplankton abundance, dissolved and particulate trace metals, primary and bacterial production, sulphur compounds and halocarbons were collected, as well as atmospheric physical and chemical measurements. The data were collected in the North Sea between August 1988 and October 1990 over a series of 38 cruises on RRS Challenger. Oceanographic measurements were taken using hydrographic profilers, moored instruments and shipboard underway systems. Underway meteorological data were also collected in addition to a comprehensive atmospheric sampling programme. Both continuous and discrete water samples were collected, providing biogeochemical and biological data. These were supplemented by net hauls. Benthic processes were investigated with sediment cores taken on eight survey cruises at six sites of varied character, three being in the area of summer stratification. Water and benthic sample analyses were supplemented by results of seabed and shipboard incubation experiments. The North Sea Project evolved from a NERC review of shelf seas research, which identified the need for a concerted multidisciplinary study of circulation, transport and production. The Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL), now the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) hosted the project. It involved over 200 scientists and support staff from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF - now DEFRA) and other academic institutes. The data are held at the British Oceanographic Data Centre and are available on CD-ROM.

Alternate title: British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048001

Date (Publication): 2017-10-03

Date (Creation): 2011-07-22

Date (Revision): 2021-04-21

Citation identifier: http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED145

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Oceanographic Data Centre		enquiries@bodc.ac.uk	Custodian
British Oceanographic Data Centre		enquiries@bodc.ac.uk	Distributor
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry	Unknown	chemistry@esf.edu	Owner
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry	Unknown	chemistry@esf.edu	Originator
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex	Unknown	kerrya@essex.ac.uk	Owner
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex	Unknown	kerrya@essex.ac.uk	Originator
University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences	Unknown	jaj2@cam.ac.uk	Owner
University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences	Unknown	jaj2@cam.ac.uk	Originator
Plymouth Polytechnic Institute of Marine Studies	Unknown	inapplicable	Owner
Plymouth Polytechnic Institute of Marine Studies	Unknown	inapplicable	Originator
Rijkswaterstaat, North Sea Directorate	Unknown	unknown	Owner
Rijkswaterstaat, North Sea Directorate	Unknown	unknown	Originator
University of Wales, School of Ocean Sciences	Unknown	inapplicable	Owner
University of Wales, School of Ocean Sciences	Unknown	inapplicable	Originator
University of Liverpool, Department of Oceanography	Unknown	inapplicable	Owner
University of Liverpool, Department of Oceanography	Unknown	inapplicable	Originator
University of Southampton Department of Oceanography	Unknown	inapplicable	Owner
University of Southampton Department of Oceanography	Unknown	inapplicable	Originator
University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences	Unknown	env.enquiries@uea.ac.uk	Owner
University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences	Unknown	env.enquiries@uea.ac.uk	Originator
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory	Unknown	inapplicable	Owner
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory	Unknown	inapplicable	Originator
Plymouth Marine Laboratory	Unknown	forinfo@pml.ac.uk	Owner
Plymouth Marine Laboratory	Unknown	forinfo@pml.ac.uk	Originator
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research	Unknown	dmg@nioz.nl	Owner
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research	Unknown	dmg@nioz.nl	Originator
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Burnham Laboratory	Unknown	inapplicable	Owner
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Burnham Laboratory	Unknown	inapplicable	Originator
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory	Unknown	inapplicable	Owner
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory	Unknown	inapplicable	Originator
Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory	Unknown	inapplicable	Owner
Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory	Unknown	inapplicable	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

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Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: No limitations apply

Other constraints: Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information
Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Biota
Elevation
Environment
Oceans

Geographic identifier: North Sea
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision

Begin date: 1988-01-01

End date: 1990-12-31

Supplemental Information: Publication year: 1992-10-01

Publication title: North Sea Project Users' Guide.

Publication authors: Lowry, R.K., Cramer, R.N. and Rickards, L.J.

Unique resource identifier: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Codespace: OGP

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Name	Version
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Ocean Data View

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/products/data/bodc_products/north_sea/	BODC data product

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/145/	BODC online data delivery service

Hierarchy level: Dataset

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Title: 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

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Pass: Yes

Statement: 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; sea level recorders; fluorometers; current meters; radiometers; optical backscatter sensors; thermosalinographs; single-beam echosounders; plankton nets; discrete water samplers; atmospheric radiometers; continuous water samplers; salinity sensor; unconsolidated sediment corers; elemental analysers; gas chromatographs; autoanalysers; optical microscopes; atomic absorption spectrometers; high performance liquid chromatographs; titrators; inductively-coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopes; mass spectrometers; spectrophotometers; liquid scintillation counters; transmissometers; CTD; current profilers; thermistor chains; precipitation samplers; dissolved gas sensors; pH sensors; continuous air samplers; shipboard incubators; in-situ incubators; discrete air samplers; wave recorders.

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File identifier: 222f30340d7f50f08a345efebaf0b4fc XML

Metadata language: English

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2021-12-20T06:31:16

Metadata standard name: MEDIN

Metadata standard version: 3.1.1

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Oceanographic Data Centre	Polly Hadžiabdić	enquiries@bodc.ac.uk	Point of contact

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