UK Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (UK SOLAS) 2003-2010

The UK Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (UK SOLAS) marine fieldwork data set comprises all data, marine or otherwise, collected during sea-going activities. The fieldwork included eight dedicated research cruises in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean, spanning the period 2006-2008. These cross-disciplinary missions resulted in a diverse data catalogue. This includes meteorology (3-D wind speed and direction, total irradiance, Photosynthetically Active Radiation/PAR, air temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, aerosol optical thickness); atmospheric composition (carbon dioxide concentration, aerosol particle counts and size spectra, chemical analyses of aerosol particle composition, cloud condensation nuclei/CCN, concentrations of pollutants such as black carbon, concentrations of free radical species such as iodine monoxide and nitrate radicals); chemical and energy-fluxes across the air-sea boundary (dust deposition rates, oxygen and nitrogen fluxes, carbon dioxide fluxes, sensible heat fluxes, latent heat fluxes, momentum fluxes); biological, chemical and physical properties and processes in the sea surface micro-layer (chlorophyll concentration, bacterial production, phytoplankton and bacterial speciation, concentrations of biogenic trace compounds such as halocarbons, nitrous oxide, dimethyl sulphide/DMS and alcohols, surfactant concentrations, halogen concentrations such as iodine, iodide and iodate); biological, chemical and photochemical properties and processes in the ocean subsurface (primary productivity, trace gas production, plankton community composition, nutrient concentration, concentrations of trace metals such as iron, aluminium, manganese, magnesium and cobalt, ligand and complex metal chemistry parameters such as heme, dust dissolution, salinity, temperature, amino acids and urea, carbonate system chemistry including alkalinity); and sea-state physics (breaking waves, wave slope, whitecaps, bubble size spectra, aerosol formation, subsurface acoustics). Additionally, time series of air-sea fluxes were measured from the Norwegian weather ship, Polarfront, between 2006 and 2009. UK SOLAS scientists also participated in the Bergen Mesocosm experiment during 2008. This simulated gas exchanges and biological, chemical and photochemical properties and processes in the sea surface micro-layer under controlled conditions. The study united atmospheric and marine scientists from institutions across the UK and international collaborators. The UK SOLAS data set was intended to advance understanding of the mutual interactions between the atmosphere and the oceans, especially the chemical exchanges that affect ocean productivity, atmospheric composition and climate. It was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council, as the UK's contribution to the international Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS). The data are held at the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) and have been incorporated into the National Oceanographic Database (NODB). Data collected from non-ship based activities, for example land-based atmospheric data and data resulting from campaigns using the Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) aircraft are held at the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC).

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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048UKSOLAS
Date (Publication)
2017-10-03
Date (Creation)
2012-08-20
Date (Revision)
2024-08-13
Citation identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED4269
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences

Unknown

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Owner

University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences

Unknown

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Originator

British Oceanographic Data Centre

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

Custodian

British Oceanographic Data Centre

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Distributor
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

MEDIN metadata record availability
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations apply
Other constraints

Data are only available on the basis of case-by-case negotiation for usage
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
  • Geoscientific information
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Oceans
  • Environment
  • Biota
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Geographic identifier
Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

SeaVoX water bodies 2023-09-13 revision

Begin date
2003-01-01
End date
2010-12-31
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace

OGP
Distribution format
Name Version
Delimited
Network Common Data Form
Ocean Data View
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/4269/

BODC online data delivery service
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/b4d08055-8c3f-45b2-a7c6-15f8382261b3/

Published dataset - doi:10.5285/b4d08055-8c3f-45b2-a7c6-15f8382261b3
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/cc84753d-7b95-479b-a262-d53085b21d4d/

Published dataset - doi:10.5285/cc84753d-7b95-479b-a262-d53085b21d4d
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/2bfe21b0-36a5-4ca5-9473-24483b7308cf/

Published dataset - doi:10.5285/2bfe21b0-36a5-4ca5-9473-24483b7308cf
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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.

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Yes
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: anemometers; wave recorders; fluorometers; lowered current profilers; thermosalinographs; underwater cameras; plankton recorders; plankton nets; discrete water samplers; scatterometers; atmospheric radiometers; continuous water samplers; cameras; particulates samplers; salinity sensor; pH sensors; bubble detectors; hydrophones; in-situ incubators; sieves and filters; colorimeters; autoanalysers; optical microscopes; high performance liquid chromatographs; balances and scales; inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometers; mass spectrometers; gas chromatograph mass spectrometers; spectrophotometers; bench fluorometers; bench particle sizers; Differential Global Positioning System receivers; nutrient analysers; microstructure sensors; CTD; transmissometers; aerosol samplers; water temperature sensor; thermistor chains; precipitation samplers; in-situ particle sizers; dissolved gas sensors; plankton categorisers and counters; continuous air samplers; shipboard incubators; meteorological packages; discrete air samplers.

Metadata

File identifier
9d10662fc03b5c548b5023827b313afb XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2024-08-13T09:05:43
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

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