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NERC Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS) North Atlantic Data Set (1989-1991)
The dataset contains physical, biological and chemical oceanographic measurements, and meteorological data. Hydrographic measurements include temperature, salinity, current velocities, attenuance, dissolved oxygen and fluorescence, while water samples were analysed for concentrations of nutrients, pigments, suspended particulates, metals and halocarbons. Samples were also collected for phytoplankton and zooplankton analyses, while results from production experiments are also included in the data set. These oceanographic data are supplemented by surface meteorological measurements. The data were collected at 357 sites in the NE Atlantic, 308 of which are from cruises centering on 20 W, 47 to 60 N, 16 from the Cape Verde Islands and 33 in a coccolithophore bloom just south of Iceland. Measurements were taken from 3 cruises in 1989, 6 cruises in 1990 and 2 cruises in 1991. The data were collected via (i) underway sampling (SeaSoar Undulating Oceanographic Recorder (UOR), hull-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP), meteorology and surface ocean parameters) of which there are 793430 records at 30 second intervals from 11 cruises and (ii) discrete sampling (conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) and expendable bathythermograph (XBT) casts, bottle stations, net hauls, productivity incubations, stand alone pump (SAP) and sediment trap deployments, cores) of which there are 2215 deployments/experiments. The aim of the Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS) Community Research Project was to study the role of oceans in the global cycling of carbon. The data were collected and supplied by UK participants in the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS). The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) had responsibility for calibrating, processing, quality controlling and documenting the data and assembling the final data set. The underway data are stored as time series for each cruise merged with the navigation data. The data are fully quality controlled. Checks were made for instrument malfunction, fouling, constant values, spikes, spurious values, calibration errors and baseline corrections. The discrete data are stored in a relational database (Oracle RDBMS), mainly as vertical profiles and are uniquely identified by a combination of deployment number and depth.
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048002
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-09-30
- Date (Revision)
- 2017-02-01
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED147
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre
Custodian British Oceanographic Data Centre
Distributor Royal Holloway and Bedford College, University of London, School of Biological Sciences
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Owner Royal Holloway and Bedford College, University of London, School of Biological Sciences
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Originator University of Edinburgh, Department of Geology and Geophysics
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Owner University of Edinburgh, Department of Geology and Geophysics
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Originator Queen's University Belfast, School of Biological Sciences
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Owner Queen's University Belfast, School of Biological Sciences
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Originator University of Bristol, School of Chemistry
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Owner University of Bristol, School of Chemistry
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Originator Polytechnic South West Institute of Marine Studies
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Owner Polytechnic South West Institute of Marine Studies
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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 University of Southampton Department of Oceanography
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Owner University of Southampton Department of Oceanography
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Originator University of Liverpool, Department of Oceanography
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Owner University of Liverpool, Department of Oceanography
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Originator University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences
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Owner University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences
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Originator University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences
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Owner University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences
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Originator Scottish Universities Research Reactor Centre
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Owner Scottish Universities Research Reactor Centre
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Originator Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory
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Owner Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory
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Originator Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory
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Owner Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory
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Originator Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Owner Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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SeaDataNet PDV
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- Particulate metal concentrations in the water column
- Zooplankton dry weight biomass per unit volume of the water column
- Ammonium and ammonia concentration parameters in water bodies
- Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
- Zooplankton non taxonomy-related biomass expressed as nitrogen per unit volume of the water column
- Dissolved organic carbon concentration in the water column
- Phytoplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies
- Air pressure
- Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column
- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere
- Sea level
- Dissolved metal concentrations in the water column
- Other halocarbon concentrations in water bodies
- Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
- Zooplankton feeding
- Atmospheric humidity
- Microzooplankton grazing
- Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
- Air temperature
- Precipitation chemistry
- Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
- Atmospheric particulates
- Wave height and period statistics
- Zooplankton taxonomy-related abundance per unit volume of the water column
- Metal fluxes between the bed and the water column
- Salinity of the water column
- Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
- Microzooplankton non taxonomy-related biomass expressed as carbon per unit volume of the water column
- Bacteria generic abundance in water bodies
- Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water column
- Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column
- Nutrient fluxes between the bed and the water column
- Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
- Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
- Solar Radiation
- Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
- Raw fluorometer output
- Bacteria environmental parameters
- Wind strength and direction
- Organosulphur and organoselenium species concentration parameters in water bodies
- Bacterial production in the water column
- Bathymetry and Elevation
- Temperature of the water column
- New production in water bodies
- Primary production in the water column
- Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
- Zooplankton non taxonomy-related biomass expressed as carbon per unit volume of the water column
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Vertical Coverages
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MEDIN metadata record availability
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- 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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- Elevation
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Geoscientific information
- Environment
- Oceans
- Biota
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- Geographic identifier
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North Atlantic Ocean
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Begin date
- 1989
- End date
- 1991
- Supplemental Information
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Publication year: 1994-10-01
Publication title: Users Guide to the BOFS North Atlantic Data Set.
Publication authors: Lowry, R.K., Machin, P. and Cramer, R.N
Publication year: 1992-07-01
Publication title: The BOFS 1990 Spring Bloom Experiment: temporal evolution and spatial variability of the hydrographic field.
Publication authors: Savidge, G., Turner, D.R., Burkhill, P.H., Watson, A.J., Angel, M.V., Pingree, R.D., Leach, H and Richards, K.J.
Publication editors: Progress in Oceanography Vol. 29(3): 235-281.
- 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
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/products/data/bodc_products/bofs/ BODC data product
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/147/ BODC online 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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- 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: meteorological packages; sea level recorders; fluorometers; thermosalinographs; plankton nets; discrete water samplers; particulates samplers; sediment traps; salinity sensor; sediment grabs; gas chromatographs; autoanalysers; optical microscopes; titrators; spectrophotometers; transmissometers; current profilers; thermistor chains; precipitation samplers; dissolved gas sensors; wave recorders.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 89ee25c87c445b4d9b2ce2891dc84a3d XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2021-12-20T06:31:16
- 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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