Physical oceanography data collected from the Scotia Sea as part of the SMILES project

This dataset consists of measurements of various physical oceanographic parameters collected on a comprehensive survey of the Scotia Sea undertaken from 21 April and 22 May 2015. Data were collected on RRS James Clark Ross cruise JR311. Navigation data were collected using an Applanix POSMV system and meteorology and sea surface hydrography were collected using the NMF Surfmet system. Both systems were run through the duration of the cruise, excepting times for cleaning, entering and leaving port, and while alongside. A CTD was launched at 24 stations throughout the cruise. Moving Vessel Profilers, Seasoar towed CTD, oceanloggers, temperature loggers and MSS turbulence profilers were all towed for multiple sections of the cruise. Multiple temperature-chain loggers were deployed at stations throughout the cruise. JR311 was the research cruise conducted as the observational element of the NERC Standard Grant, Surface Mixed Layer Evolution at Submesoscales (SMILES). The project aims to improve our understanding of submesoscale dynamics in regions characterised by strong fronts and where they impact on water mass transformation. For this reason, the field site was chosen to be the subantarctic front (SAF) to the east of Drake Passage where the Antarctic Circumpolar Current generates a pronounced front between the warmer subantarctic water to the north and the subpolar water to the south. To the north of the SAF, subantarctic mode water is formed through a process previously considered to be governed by air-sea interaction alone. SMILES aimed to investigate the extent to which submesoscale dynamics at the SAF and the surrounding region may impact on, and potentially govern, this process of water mass transformation. The Discovery Science project was led by Standard Grant reference NE/J009857/1, with child grants NE/J010472/1, NE/J010367/1 and NE/J008214/1. NE/J009857/1 was held at the University of Plymouth, School of Engineering, led by Dr. Phil Hosegood, running from 01 July 2014 to 31 December 2017. NE/J010472/1 was held at the University of Cambridge, School of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, led by Dr John Ryan Taylor, running from 01 April 2013 to 30 September 2016. NE/J010367/1 was held at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, led by Dr Ricardo Torres, running from 01 June 2014 to 30 June 2017. Finally, NE/J008214/1 was held at the NERC British Antarctic Survey, led by Professor Michael Meredith, running from 01 July 2013 to 31 October 2016. All data have been received by BODC as raw files from the RRS James Cook to be processed and quality controlled using in-house BODC procedures and made available online. Data are available as raw files on request.

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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048SMILES_project_data
Date (Publication)
2018-05-17
Date (Creation)
2023-12-06
Date (Revision)
2023-12-08
Citation identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6790
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

University of Plymouth School of Engineering

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technology@plymouth.ac.uk

Owner

University of Plymouth School of Engineering

Unknown

technology@plymouth.ac.uk

Originator

British Oceanographic Data Centre

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

Custodian

British Oceanographic Data Centre

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Distributor
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

MEDIN metadata record availability

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations apply
Other constraints

Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
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Other restrictions
Other constraints

Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Language
English
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Geographic identifier
Scotia Sea

SeaVoX water bodies 2023-09-13 revision

Begin date
2015-04-21
End date
2015-05-22
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace

OGP
Distribution format
Name Version
Network Common Data Form
Ocean Data View
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/6790/

BODC online data delivery service
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Dataset

Conformance result

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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Yes
Statement

This dataset was created by scientists for the 'Surface Mixed Layer Evolution at Submesoscales (SMILES)' project, which ran from 2013 to 2017, 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: current profilers; Global Navigation Satellite System receivers; CTD; water temperature sensor; thermistor chains; meteorological packages.

Metadata

File identifier
660171a74c8a5eb4b5a748d7b68788eb XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2024-08-07T17:02:15
Metadata standard name
MEDIN
Metadata standard version

3.1.1
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Oceanographic Data Centre

Polly Hadžiabdić

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

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