62851a53277e5312a230169d51bfcfef English dataset Polly Hadžiabdić British Oceanographic Data Centre Head of the BODC Requests Team Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ pointOfContact 2025-06-09T13:48:13 MEDIN 3.1.2 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP Southern Weddell Sea shelf CTD dataset collected using seal tags British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048Weddell_Seal_Tags 2018-08-24 publication 2023-12-06 creation 2023-12-08 revision EDMED6758 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ This dataset is comprised of CTD temperature, salinity and potential temperature collected using seal tags. Data were collected as part of the NERC-funded project 'Ocean processes over the southern Weddell Sea shelf using seal tags'. Data were not collected as part of a cruise as seals were used as data activity platforms. 20 Weddell seals were tagged at the eastern end of the shelf-break north of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf between 11 February 2011 and 03 May 2011. The aims of the project were: 1. The resulting data from the seals' dives will provide the most comprehensive picture to date of the ocean conditions over the southern Weddell Sea continental shelf. 2. By mapping the temperature of the water near the sea floor it will be possible to determine the locations where dense waters leave the shelf, and the processes involved: either a direct flow down the slope under gravity, or initially mixing at the shelf edge with waters from off the shelf before descending down the slope. 3. To determine where the source waters come onto the shelf. 4. Though the research was primarily oceanographic, the movements and diving behaviour provide insight to seal biologists studying the animals' behaviour. Data were collected as part of NERC standard grants NE/G014086/1 and NE/G014833/1. NE/G014086/1 was the lead grant and was led by Dr Keith William Nicholls of NERC British Antarctic Survey, Science Programmes and ran from 01 April 2010 to 31 December 2018. The secondary grant, NE/G014833/1, was led by Professor Michael Fedak of University of St Andrews, Sea Mammal Research Unit and ran from 01 October 2010 to 28 February 2014. The seal tag CTD data have been received by BODC and are currently available in original format upon request. Unknown British Oceanographic Data Centre Unknown Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ owner Unknown British Oceanographic Data Centre Unknown Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ originator British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ custodian British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ distributor asNeeded unknown SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision Temperature of the water column Salinity of the water column SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2023-12-12 revision Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 revision Oceanographic geographical features GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision otherRestrictions No limitations apply Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence otherRestrictions Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence English oceans -62.7811 -11.7987 -79.6312 -58.6066 SeaVoX water bodies 2024-12-11 revision Weddell Sea 2011-02-11 2011-05-03 Publication year: 2016-05-19 Publication title: Bimodal Winter Haul-Out Patterns of Adult Weddell Seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) in the Southern Weddell Sea Publication authors: Lars Boehme Publication year: 2016-08-02 Publication title: Observed vulnerability of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf to wind-driven inflow of warm deep water Publication authors: E. Darelius Publication year: 2014-09-05 Publication title: Hydrography and circulation in the Filchner Depression, Weddell Sea, Antarctica Publication authors: E.Darelius Publication year: 2013-03-18 Publication title: Wintertime Water Mass Modification near an Antarctic Ice Front Publication authors: Marius Arthun Publication year: 2013-09-01 Publication title: Seasonal inflow of warm water onto the southern Weddell Sea continental shelf, Antarctica Publication authors: Marius Arthun Publication year: 2015-01-13 Publication title: An alternative method for correcting fluorescence quenching Publication authors: L. Biermann Publication year: 2013-05-01 Publication title: The impact of animal platforms on polar ocean observation Publication authors: M.A.Fedak Publication year: 2015-01-06 Publication title: Efficient abstracting of dive profiles using a broken-stick model Publication authors: Theoni Photopoulou Publication year: 2015-07-29 Publication title: The generalized data management and collection protocol for Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Satellite Relay Data Loggers Publication authors: Theoni Photopoulou Publication year: 2013-12-03 Publication title: Estimates of the Southern Ocean general circulation improved by animal-borne instruments Publication authors: Fabien Roquet Publication year: 2014-09-02 Publication title: A Southern Indian Ocean database of hydrographic profiles obtained with instrumented elephant seals Publication authors: Fabien Roquet Network Common Data Form Text or Plaintext https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/6758/ BODC online data delivery service National Oceanographic Database data delivery service; pre-filtered for the data collection. order dataset 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 2010-12-08 publication 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. true This dataset was created by scientists for the 'Ocean processes over the southern Weddell Sea shelf using seal tags' project, which runs from 2010 to 2018, 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: CTD.