BGS Hosted Metadata
Liverpool Bay/Irish Sea Coastal Observatory Data Set
The data set comprises measurement of physical and biogeochemical oceanographic parameters and complementary meteorology collected during the Liverpool Bay/Irish Sea Coastal Observatory initiative. It includes measurements from across the Liverpool Bay and Irish Sea area with data collection spanning a decade from 2001 to 2011. It incorporates regular hydrographic survey cruises (typically 8 - 10 per year) undertaken by the RV Prince Madog, data collected via instrumented ferries, time series data from oceanographic moorings and at two meteorological stations, namely: Bidston Observatory (up to 2004) and Hilbre Island (2004 - 2011), and a shore-based high-frequency (HF) radar measuring waves and surface currents out to a range of 50km. The hydrographic surveys include conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) casts with attached auxiliary sensors and data collected via the ships' underway monitoring system. Oceanographic parameters include temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, attenuance, turbidity, fluorescence, chlorophyll, nutrients, irradiance, waves and currents and meteorological parameters include air temperature, air pressure, wind velocities, humidity, precipitation and atmospheric irradiance. The instrumented ferries also incorporated an underway monitoring system for sea surface properties. The Observatory integrated (near) real-time measurements with the POLCOMS (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Coastal Ocean Modelling System) models. The objective was to understand a coastal sea's response both to natural forcing and to the consequences of human activity. The foci were the impact of storms, variations in river discharge (especially the Mersey), seasonality, and blooms in Liverpool Bay. The Observatory was coordinated at the National Oceanography Centre (previously the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, POL) in Liverpool and data are managed by British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC). The data set is supplemented by infra-red (for sea surface temperature) and visible (for chlorophyll and suspended sediment) satellite data. These data are held at the NERC Earth Observation Data Centre /Remote Sensing Data Analysis Service (NEODC/RSDAS).
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048109
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-08-16
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-08-13
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED224
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of Liverpool, Port Erin Marine Laboratory
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Owner University of Liverpool, Port Erin Marine Laboratory
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Originator National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
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Owner National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
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Originator Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory
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Owner Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory
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Originator Met Office, Exeter
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Owner Met Office, Exeter
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Originator Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Owner Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Originator Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
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Owner Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
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Originator Environment Agency Head Office
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Owner Environment Agency Head Office
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Originator Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland
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Owner Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland
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Originator Bangor University School of Ocean Sciences
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Owner Bangor University School of Ocean Sciences
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Originator University of Liverpool, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences
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Owner University of Liverpool, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences
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Originator National Oceanography Centre (Liverpool)
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Owner National Oceanography Centre (Liverpool)
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Originator University of Wales, School of Ocean Sciences
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Owner University of Wales, School of Ocean Sciences
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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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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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- Raw fluorometer output
- Dissolved metal concentrations in the water column
- Zooplankton taxonomy-related abundance per unit volume of the water column
- Raw in-situ nutrient analyser output
- Raw suspended particulate material concentration sensor output
- Solar Radiation
- Sediment grain size parameters
- Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
- Air temperature
- Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
- Wave height and period statistics
- Platform or instrument orientation
- Acoustic backscatter in the water column
- Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column
- Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
- Air pressure
- Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
- Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
- Side-scan sonar
- Concentration of organic matter in water bodies
- Salinity of the water column
- Radar backscatter
- Atmospheric humidity
- Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
- Horizontal platform movement
- Raw light meter output
- Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
- Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
- Ammonium and ammonia concentration parameters in water bodies
- Wind strength and direction
- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
- Electrical conductivity of the water column
- Ocean colour and earth-leaving visible waveband spectral radiation
- Wave direction
- Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
- Temperature of the water column
- Moored instrument depth
- Vertical velocity of the water column (currents)
- Raw current meter output parameters
- Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
- Sea level
- Bathymetry and Elevation
- Spectral wave data parameters
- Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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MEDIN metadata record availability
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SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations apply
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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
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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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- Oceans
- Elevation
- Environment
- Location
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Geoscientific information
- Biota
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- Geographic identifier
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Irish Sea
SeaVoX water bodies 2023-09-13 revision
- Begin date
- 2001-01-01
- End date
- 2011-09-20
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
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OGP
- Distribution format
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Name Version Delimited 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/224/ Livepool Bay Coastal Observatory website
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://linkedsystems.uk/erddap/tabledap/samples_cobs_20200901.subset BODC ERDDAP data delivery service
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- Dataset
Conformance result
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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.
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- Yes
- Statement
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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: anemometers; meteorological packages; sea level recorders; fluorometers; current meters; thermosalinographs; water temperature sensor; single-beam echosounders; nutrient analysers; plankton nets; discrete water samplers; continuous water samplers; salinity sensor; sediment grabs; sieves and filters; autoanalysers; Differential Global Positioning System receivers; transmissometers; CTD; water body temperature sensor; surface current radars; current profilers; in-situ particle sizers; sidescan sonars; dissolved gas sensors; wave recorders.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 8235dba03afb5a7089c93f7889fba2b8 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
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