North Atlantic Ocean Weather Ship (OWS) Temperature and Salinity Hydrocast Data (1910-1990)

The data set comprises temperature and salinity hydrocasts collected across the North Atlantic Ocean between 1910 and 1990. The measurements were collected by nine North Atlantic Ocean Weather Ships (OWS): OWS Alpha (1954 – 1974); OWS Bravo (1928 – 1974); OWS Charlie (1910 – 1982); OWS Echo (1910 – 1979); OWS India (1957 – 1975); OWS Juliet (1950 – 1975); OWS Kilo (1949 – 1973); OWS Lima (1948 – 1990); OWS Mike (1948 – 1982). This data set also includes measurements collected close to the general positions prior to the stationing of the Weather ships for the OWS Bravo, Charlie and Echo stations. Data from OWS Alpha, Bravo, Echo, India, Juliett and Kilo have been taken from the US National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) compilations whereas those from OWS Charlie, Lima and Mike have been constructed from both the US NODC and International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) data holdings. In addition a daily averaged data set for OWS Charlie is available for the period 1975 - 1985 (supplied by Syd Levitus). This data set was supplied to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) by ICES. Additional files and more recent data can be acquired from the ICES website.

Alternate title: British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048042

Date (Publication): 2018-05-18

Date (Creation): 2010-09-16

Date (Revision): 2023-02-02

Citation identifier: http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED181

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea	Unknown	info@ices.dk	Owner
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea	Unknown	info@ices.dk	Originator
British Oceanographic Data Centre		enquiries@bodc.ac.uk	Custodian
British Oceanographic Data Centre		enquiries@bodc.ac.uk	Distributor

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

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

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Language: English

Topic category

Oceans

Geographic identifier: North Atlantic Ocean
SeaVoX water bodies 2023-09-13 revision

Begin date: 1910

End date: 1990

Unique resource identifier: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Codespace: OGP

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.ices.dk/data/data-portals/Pages/default.aspx	International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) dataset collections

Hierarchy level: Dataset

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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.

Pass: Yes

Statement: Instrument(s) used to collect data: salinity sensor.

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File identifier: 97ca600efa235a91878ddcfa5e99b2f1 XML

Metadata language: English

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2024-08-13T08:40:26

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	Point of contact

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