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ARABESQUE Project Data Set - upper ocean biogeochemistry data collected in the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in 1994
The data set comprises hydrographic, biogeochemical and biological data, including measurements of temperature, salinity and attenuance, plus concentrations of parameters such as nutrients, pigments, urea, hydrocarbons, sedimentation flux, sulphur and dissolved carbon. Analyses of bacterial, zooplankton and phytoplankton communities were also undertaken. The oceanographic data were supplemented by measurements of surface meteorological parameters. Data were collected across three repeated sections: one along the Gulf of Oman; a section at 67deg East from 8 to 14.5deg North; and a major section from 8deg North, 67 deg East to the coast of Oman. Other one-off sections were also traversed in the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman areas. Measurements were collected during two cruises: one between 27 August and the 4 October 1994 and the other between the 16 November and the 19 December 1994. Sections were covered by underway surface ocean measurements (one minute sampling of multiple parameters providing some 5 million measurements) complemented by a total of 21 CTD/water-bottle stations, 14 of which were repeated. ARABESQUE was organised by the Plymouth Marine Laboratory of NERC's Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences and involved the University of Wales, Bangor; Queen's University of Belfast; University of East Anglia; University of Edinburgh; University of Newcastle; the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada; the Max Planck Institute for Limnology, Germany and the Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. Data management support for the project was provided by the British Oceanographic Data Centre. All data collected as part of the project were lodged with BODC who had responsibility for assembling, calibrating, quality controlling and fully documenting the data. BODC checked for instrument spikes or malfunction, values beyond the calibration range, unreasonable ratios of chemical constituents and unreasonable deviations from climatological means. Data were assembled into a relational database, complete with supporting documentation and a user manual. The full data set has been published by BODC on CD-ROM complete with user interface.
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048079
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-09-30
- Date (Revision)
- 2017-02-01
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED192
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre
Custodian British Oceanographic Data Centre
Distributor Sultan Qaboos University, Department of Fisheries Science and Technology
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Owner Sultan Qaboos University, Department of Fisheries Science and Technology
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Originator Max Planck Institute for Limnology
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Owner Max Planck Institute for Limnology
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Originator Newcastle University Department of Marine Science and Coastal Management
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Owner Newcastle University Department of Marine Science and Coastal Management
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Originator University of Edinburgh, Department of Geology and Geophysics
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Owner University of Edinburgh, Department of Geology and Geophysics
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Originator Bedford Institute of Oceanography
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Owner Bedford Institute of Oceanography
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Originator University of Hamburg, Department of Chemistry
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Owner University of Hamburg, Department of Chemistry
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Originator Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Owner Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Originator Queen's University Belfast, School of Biological Sciences
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Owner Queen's University Belfast, School of Biological Sciences
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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 University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences
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Owner University of East Anglia, School of Environmental 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
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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SeaDataNet PDV
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- Plankton abundance per unit volume of the water column
- Molecular biology parameters
- Primary production in the water column
- Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
- Microzooplankton non taxonomy-related biomass expressed as carbon per unit volume of the water column
- Dissolved concentration parameters for other gases in sediment pore waters
- Bacteria generic abundance in water bodies
- Microzooplankton generic abundance in water bodies
- Microzooplankton grazing
- Organosulphur and organoselenium species concentration parameters in water bodies
- Microzooplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies
- Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
- Dissolved organic carbon concentration in the water column
- Concentration of other hydrocarbons in the water column
- Phycobolin pigment concentrations in the water column
- Salinity of the water column
- Urea concentration parameters in the water column
- Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column
- Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
- Bacterial production in the water column
- Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
- Ammonium and ammonia concentration parameters in water bodies
- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere
- Temperature of the water column
- Partial pressure (pCO2) and fugacity (fCO2) of carbon dioxide in the water column
- Carotenoid and flavenoid pigment concentrations in water bodies
- Phytoplankton taxonomic biomass in water bodies
- Sedimentation flux quantification in the water column
- Phytoplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies
- Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
- Total dissolved inorganic carbon (TCO2) concentration in the water column
- Concentration of inorganic sulphur species in the water column
- Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
- Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
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MEDIN metadata record availability
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Vertical Coverages
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INSPIRE themes
- 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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- Biota
- Oceans
- Geoscientific information
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Geographic identifier
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Gulf of Oman
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Arabian Sea
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Begin date
- 1994
- End date
- 1994
- Supplemental Information
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Publication year: 1998-12-31
Publication title: The scientific findings of this project were published in 1998 in a Special Issue of Deep Sea Research
Publication editors: Deep Sea Research - Special Issue
- 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
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/products/data/bodc_products/arabesque/ BODC data product
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/192/ BODC online data delivery service
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- Dataset
Conformance result
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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 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: radiometers; discrete water samplers; particulates samplers; gas chromatographs; autoanalysers; high performance liquid chromatographs; titrators; bench particle sizers; CTD undulators; CTD; current profilers; shipboard incubators; in-situ incubators.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 43b6ea42e0d25557a12674627a3c7617 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2021-12-20T06:31:16
- 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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