BGS Hosted Metadata
Moored data from the 26 North Atlantic array since 2004
The 26 North dataset comprises moored temperature, conductivity and salinity, current velocity, acoustic travel time and bottom pressure time series. Data have been collected in the North Atlantic between latitudes of 23.7 degrees N and 28 degrees N in three sub -arrays at the Western Boundary (76.9 degrees W to 69.4 degrees W), Mid-Atlantic Ridge (52.1 degrees W to 40.9 degrees W) and Eastern Boundary (24.2 degrees W to 12.2 degrees W ). A number of instrumented moorings, some of which are full depth, have been deployed in each sub-array. Data have been collected since February 2004 and the moorings have been turned around every year. Data have been collected using a variety of moored instrumentation including conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensors, current meters, Bottom Pressure Recorders (BPR), Inverted Echo Sounders (IES) and Acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs). Data are collected in order to calculate and continuously monitor the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) and provide a long term time series of the strength of the MOC. The 26 North dataset comprises moored data collected by the RAPID: monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5 degrees N since 2004 (RAPIDMOC) project and the Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heat-flux Array (MOCHA) project. Data are held at the British Oceanographic Data Centre.
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- Alternate title
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_26North_moorings
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-02-12
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-08-13
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6156
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science , University of Miami
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Owner Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science , University of Miami
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Originator National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
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Owner National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
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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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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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- Sound velocity and travel time in the water column
- Moored instrument depth
- Date and time
- Quality control flags
- Vertical velocity of the water column (currents)
- Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
- Salinity of the water column
- Electrical conductivity of the water column
- Sea level
- Temperature of the water column
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SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
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MEDIN metadata record availability
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations apply
- Other constraints
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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
- Other constraints
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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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- Elevation
- Oceans
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- Geographic identifier
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North Atlantic Ocean
SeaVoX water bodies 2023-09-13 revision
- Begin date
- 2004-02-01
- End date
- 2024-08-13 After
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
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OGP
- Distribution format
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Name Version Network Common Data Form Ocean Data View Text or Plaintext
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/6156/ BODC online data delivery service
- Hierarchy level
- 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.
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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This dataset was created by RAPIDMOC funded scientists from the 26 N mooring array deployed since 2004 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/.
Instrument(s) used to collect data: sea level recorders; inverted echosounders; current profilers; CTD; current meters.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 702d185350a55abd8af81582a736d34b XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-08-13T09:01:13
- 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
Point of contact
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