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PROcesses of Vertical Exchange in Shelf Seas (PROVESS) data set (1998-1999)
The dataset includes a wide range of physical, chemical and biological oceanographic parameters. Physical hydrographic measurements include temperature, salinity, optical backscatter, current velocities and turbulence, while biogeochemical measurements in the water column include dissolved oxygen, organic carbon and nitrogen, and nutrients. Biogeochemical parameters were also measured in sediment cores, while phytoplankton and zooplankton data were also collected. The marine data were supplemented by meteorological measurements including temperature, pressure, irradiance and wind. The experimental phase of the project was undertaken in the North Sea between 1998 and 1999, and data were collected at two contrasting sites: Northern North Sea (NNS, 59deg 20.0E, 1deg 00.0E) and Southern North Sea (SNS, 52deg 15.0N, 4deg 17.0E). At both locations measurements were concentrated at a central position with additional measurements being made to estimate horizontal gradients. Moored instruments were deployed at NNS from September - November 1998 and at SNS from March - May 1999. Each experiment was supported by intensive measurement series made from oceanographic ships and involving turbulence dissipation profiler, conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) profilers, particle size profilers, optical profilers, benthic sampling and water bottle sampling. PROVESS is an interdisciplinary study of the vertical fluxes of properties through the water column and the surface and bottom boundary layers with the aim of improving understanding and quantification of vertical exchange processes in the water column. Scientists from 18 institutions distributed in 8 European countries participated in the fieldwork and modelling parts of the programme and was co-ordinated by John Howarth of the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory. The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is responsible for assembling the data collected during the project into a comprehensive data set. The data has been organised onto a CD-ROM product available through BODC.
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048088
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-09-30
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-04-21
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED203
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
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Owner Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
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Originator Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory
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Owner Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory
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Originator Southampton Oceanography Centre
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Owner Southampton Oceanography Centre
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Originator Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
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Owner Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
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Originator National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management
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Owner National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management
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Originator Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
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Owner Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
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Originator Napier University School of Life Sciences
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Owner Napier University School of Life Sciences
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Originator Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences
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Owner Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences
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Originator University of Wales, School of Ocean Sciences
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Owner University of Wales, School of Ocean Sciences
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Originator Universite de la Mediterrannee (U2), Centre d'Oceanologie de Marseille
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Owner Universite de la Mediterrannee (U2), Centre d'Oceanologie de Marseille
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Originator Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models, Ostend
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Owner Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models, Ostend
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Originator Danish Institute for Fisheries Research, Technical University of Denmark, Dept. of Marine Ecology and Aquaculture
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Owner Danish Institute for Fisheries Research, Technical University of Denmark, Dept. of Marine Ecology and Aquaculture
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Originator Joint Research Centre
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Owner Joint Research Centre
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Originator OSAT GmbH (Hydromod Group)
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Owner OSAT GmbH (Hydromod Group)
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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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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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- Salinity of the water column
- Carotenoid pigment concentrations in sediment
- Wind strength and direction
- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere
- Suspended particulate material setting velocity parameters
- Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
- Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column
- Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
- Sediment water content, porosity and surface area
- Atmospheric humidity
- Dissolved total or organic phosphorus concentration in the water column
- Temperature of the water column
- Air temperature
- Date and time
- Variable fluorescence parameters
- Turbulence in the water column
- Bathymetry and Elevation
- Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column
- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
- Air pressure
- Ammonium and ammonia concentration parameters in water bodies
- Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column
- Light absorption in the water column
- Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
- Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
- Optical backscatter
- Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
- Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
- Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
- Carotenoid and flavenoid pigment concentrations in water bodies
- Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water column
- Oxygen production and respiration in the water column
- Suspended particulate material grain size parameters
- Zooplankton taxonomy-related abundance per unit volume of the water column
- Sea level
- Solar Radiation
- Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in sediment
- Nutrient fluxes between the bed and the water column
- Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
- Other fluxes between the bed and the water column
- Seabed photography
- Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
- Phaeopigment concentrations in sediment
- Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
- Secchi disk depth
- Vertical velocity of the water column (currents)
- Other wave statistics
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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MEDIN metadata record availability
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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
- Use constraints
- 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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- Geoscientific information
- Oceans
- Biota
- Location
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Elevation
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- Geographic identifier
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North Sea
SeaVoX water bodies 2024-12-11 revision
- Begin date
- 1998
- End date
- 1999
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
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OGP
- Distribution format
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Name Version Delimited Network Common Data Form Ocean Data View
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/products/data/bodc_products/provess/ BODC data product
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/203/ BODC online data delivery service
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/2bd1b010-66a1-3dc1-e063-7086abc08ac3/ Published dataset - doi:10.5285/2bd1b010-66a1-3dc1-e063-7086abc08ac3
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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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- Yes
- 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; sea level recorders; fluorometers; current meters; radiometers; optical backscatter sensors; single-beam echosounders; underwater cameras; nutrient analysers; plankton nets; discrete water samplers; continuous water samplers; unconsolidated sediment corers; Differential Global Positioning System receivers; microstructure sensors; CTD undulators; transmissometers; CTD; water body temperature sensor; current profilers; thermistor chains; in-situ particle sizers; benthic incubation chambers; dissolved gas sensors; pH sensors; sediment settling tubes.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 3e8e75c45ff25ded9b55b11324dbf215 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-14T17:10:40
- 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
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