Oceanographic data from the Discovery Reports (1925-1951)

The data set includes depth soundings, water temperature, salinity, oxygen and nutrient (phosphate, silicate, nitrite, nitrate) data, meteorological measurements (temperature, pressure), and wind and sea state observations. The data primarily originate from the Southern Ocean, although some data from the North Atlantic, the South Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Australia, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean are also included. The data were collected between 1925 and 1951 and are held in the series of nine Discovery Reports published between 1929 and 1957. These reports contain station lists of measurements taken by RRS Discovery and RRS William Scoresby and staff of the Marine Biological Station at South Georgia between 1925 and 1939, plus station lists of observations made by RRS William Scoresby and RRS Discovery between 1950 and 1951. Discovery station numbers 1 to 2911, William Scoresby stations WS1 to WS1107, Marine Biological Station MS1 to MS106, South Sandwich Islands stations 1 to 58 and Ross Sea stations 1 to 29 are included in the data set. The Discovery Project was commissioned by the Royal Society as a series of Antarctic cruises, originally with the aim of investigating the commercial whaling industry. The Discovery Reports are currently held at the British Oceanographic Data Centre in paper format. There is an ongoing effort to digitise the reports and the intention is to store these digitised versions at BODC.

Simple

Alternate title

British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048044
Date (Publication)
2017-10-03
Date (Creation)
2010-09-16
Date (Revision)
2010-09-16
Citation identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED584
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory

Unknown

inapplicable

 		Originator

British Oceanographic Data Centre

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

Custodian
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

SeaDataNet PDV

Vertical Coverages

MEDIN metadata record availability

INSPIRE themes
Use limitation

No conditions apply
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Data are freely available
Language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
N
S
E
W
thumbnail




Geographic identifier
Laptev Sea

SeaVoX water bodies 2015-02-19 revision

Begin date
1925
End date
1951
Supplemental Information

Publication year: 1929-12-31

Publication title: Discovery Report: Vol I

Publication authors: National Institute of Oceanography



Publication year: 1930-12-31

Publication title: Discovery Report: Vol III

Publication authors: National Institute of Oceanography.



Publication year: 1932-12-31

Publication title: Discovery Report: Vol IV

Publication authors: National Institute of Oceanography.



Publication year: 1941-12-31

Publication title: Discovery Report: Vol XXI

Publication authors: National Institute of Oceanography



Publication year: 1942-12-31

Publication title: Discovery Report: Vol XXII

Publication authors: National Institute of Oceanography



Publication year: 1944-12-31

Publication title: Discovery Report: Vol XXIV part 1

Publication authors: National Institute of Oceanography



Publication year: 1947-12-31

Publication title: Discovery Report: Vol XXIV part 2

Publication authors: National Institute of Oceanography



Publication year: 1949-12-31

Publication title: Discovery Report: Vol XXV

Publication authors: National Institute of Oceanography



Publication year: 1953-12-31

Publication title: Discovery Report: Vol XXVI

Publication authors: National Institute of Oceanography



Publication year: 1957-12-31

Publication title: Discovery Report: Vol XXVIII

Publication authors: National Institute of Oceanography
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
    Distributor contact
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Oceanographic Data Centre

    enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

    		Distributor
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset
    Statement

    Instrument(s) used to collect data: meteorological packages; bathythermographs; single-beam echosounders; discrete water samplers; salinity sensor; dissolved gas sensors; observers.

    Metadata

    File identifier
    55bce682b0965011a84fc4e82b726a83 XML
    Metadata language
    English
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2018-02-06T15:16:39
    Metadata standard name

    MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
    Metadata standard version

    Version 2.3.8
    Metadata author
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Oceanographic Data Centre

    Polly Hadžiabdic

    enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

    		Point of contact
     
     

    Overviews

    Spatial extent

    thumbnail

    Keywords



    Provided by

    Share on social sites

    Access to the catalogue