RAPID: monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5 degrees N since 2004 (RAPIDMOC) project data set

The RAPIDMOC dataset comprises of all data collected under the RAPID: monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5 degrees N since 2004 (RAPIDMOC) project. This includes moored temperature, conductivity and salinity, current velocity, and bottom pressure time series; conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) profiles with additional oxygen, transmittance and chlorophyll data; discrete samples from CTD niskin bottles analysed for salinity and oxygen; meteorogical, surface hydrographic, navigational and bathymetric data collected by the onboard ship systems and discrete samples; and shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data. Data have been predominately collected in the North Atlantic between latitudes of 23.7 degrees N and 28 degrees N in three sub-arrays at the Western Boundary (76.9 degrees W to 69.4 degrees W), Mid-Atlantic Ridge (52.1 degrees W to 40.9 degrees W) and Eastern Boundary (24.2 degrees W to 12.2 degrees W). Data recorded en route to the three sub-arrays, which includes ship-board data systems, some CTD profiles and discrete sample collections are also included in the dataset. A number of instrumented moorings, some of which are full depth, have been deployed in each sub-array. Data have been collected since February 2004. Data have been collected using a variety of instrumentation including conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensors, current meters, Bottom Pressure Recorders (BPR), Acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs), oxygen sensors, transmissometers, fluorometers, echo-sounders, thermosalinographs, anemometers, pyranometers, GPS systems, radiometers, barometers and humidity sensors. Data are collected to calculate and continuously monitor the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) and provide a long-term time series of the strength of the MOC. The RAPIDMOC dataset is collected by the National Oceanography Centre. Data are held at the British Oceanographic Data Centre.

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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_rpdmoc_data
Date (Publication)
2025-02-11
Date (Creation)
2024-05-21
Date (Revision)
2024-07-26
Citation identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED7352
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)

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Owner

National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)

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Originator

British Oceanographic Data Centre

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Custodian

British Oceanographic Data Centre

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

MEDIN metadata record availability
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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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Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Language
English
Topic category
  • Elevation
  • Oceans
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Location
  • Biota
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North Atlantic Ocean

SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision

Begin date
2004-02-01
End date
2026-03-13 After
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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OGP
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Ocean Data View
Text or Plaintext
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/7352/

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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
Explanation

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

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 https://www.bodc.ac.uk/submit_data/what_do_we_do_with_your_data/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; wave recorders; sea level recorders; fluorometers; current profilers; radiometers; thermosalinographs; multi-beam echosounders; continuous water samplers; salinity sensor; platform attitude sensors; data loggers; salinometers; Global Navigation Satellite System receivers; NAVSTAR Global Positioning System receivers; Differential Global Positioning System receivers; inertial navigation systems; Kinematic Global Positioning System receivers; water pressure sensors; CTD; transmissometers; current meters; water temperature sensor; dissolved gas sensors; single-beam echosounders; meteorological packages.

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3e4fcc390ac55204a1aae2ff1d405247 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-03-13T17:36:11
Metadata standard name
MEDIN
Metadata standard version

3.1.2
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Oceanographic Data Centre

Polly Hadžiabdić

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