UK National Databank of conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) or salinity-temperature-depth (STD) profiles (1969-)

The databank comprises more than 50,000 profiles of conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) or salinity-temperature-depth (STD) profiles collected during 100s of research cruises by UK laboratories, since 1969. The majority of profiles were collected in the North East Atlantic but data are available from elsewhere including for example the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic and the Southern Ocean. Many profiles have been measured in shelf seas (often around the UK) but some are deep ocean profiles which may contain data to a depth of 5000m. Data are normally supplied to the British Oceanographic Data Centre as time or depth averages resulting in vertical resolutions between 0.5 dbar and 10 dbar, with casts collected in shallow water typically having a higher vertical resolution.

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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048015
Date (Publication)
2017-10-03
Date (Creation)
2010-09-16
Date (Revision)
2017-01-30
Citation identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED159
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Oceanographic Data Centre

Unknown

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Originator

British Oceanographic Data Centre

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Custodian
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

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Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
Language
English
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Geographic identifier
Laptev Sea

SeaVoX water bodies 2015-02-19 revision

Begin date
1968
End date
2018-02-06 After
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
    OnLine resource
    Protocol Linkage Name
    https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/ctd/search/

    BODC online data delivery service
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    Dataset
    Statement

    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: fluorometers; radiometers; optical backscatter sensors; dissolved gas sensors; pH sensors; sound velocity sensors; transmissometers; CTD.

    Metadata

    File identifier
    7aa61c4356405601ada65fdd7e2e91a6 XML
    Metadata language
    English
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2018-02-06T15:16:38
    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

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