BGS Hosted Metadata
BIOPOLE glider deployments in the Southern Ocean between 2023 and 2025
This BIOPOLE dataset comprises of ocean glider data collected from April 2022 until March 2025 in the Southern Ocean, funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC). This dataset aims to understand how nutrients in polar waters drive the global carbon cycle and primary productivity. The glider deployments are collecting pressure, temperature, conductivity, salinity, optical backscatter and chlorophyll data. Near-real time, recovery (i.e., the data from the glider SD card when the glider is recovered) and quality controlled delayed mode versions of the data are available. As well as flying in open water, the gliders are also sampling under ice to provide data from areas that typically cannot be reached by traditional ships. The organisations contributing to the dataset are the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) under NERC Grant Reference NE/W004933/1. The data are archived at the British Oceanography Data Centre (BODC).
Simple
- Alternate title
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_biopole_gliders
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-02-11
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-10-17
- Date (Revision)
- 2026-03-12
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED7316
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre
Unknown
Owner British Oceanographic Data Centre
Unknown
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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- Salinity of the water column
- Electrical conductivity of the water column
- Metadata parameters
- Optical backscatter
- Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
- Vertical spatial coordinates
- Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
- Temperature of the water column
- Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
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MEDIN metadata record availability
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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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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- Biota
- Oceans
- Elevation
- Location
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- Geographic identifier
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Southern Ocean
SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision
- Begin date
- 2023-04-01
- End date
- 2025-03-31
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
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OGP
- Distribution format
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Name Version Binary Network Common Data Form
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://platforms.bodc.ac.uk/deployment-catalogue/BIOPOLE/ Glider deployment data for BIOPOLE
- 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 scientists for the NERC project titled BIOPOLE, grant reference number: NC-SM2, NE/W004933/1. The data were then submitted to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) in raw formats for ingestion into the Oceanids Command and control (C2) data system hosted by BODC. During ingestion BODC undertake documentation and metadata enhancement procedures appropriate to the type of data. Ocean glider data will be converted to the standard NetCDF format agreed by the OceanGlider community.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 244dfb8e75395b41acc0e5460d636499 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-03-12T16:14:21
- 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 Hadziabdic
Point of contact
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