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Northern Seas Programme Data Set (2001-2007)
The Northern Seas Programme dataset comprises hydrographic, biogeochemical, biological and meteorological data. Hydrographic profiles provided measurements of parameters such as temperature, salinity, fluorescence and dissolved oxygen, while current velocities and acoustic backscatter were also measured. A comprehensive water sampling program permitted the collection of biogeochemical data including concentrations of various organic compounds, dissolved gas concentrations and radioactivity. Water samples were also analysed for phytoplankton, zooplankton and viruses. Larger biological samples were obtained from the water column using trawl nets and cetacean distributions were monitored using hydrophone arrays. Sediment samples were collected at various locations and analysed for biogeochemical parameters and zoobenthos. Sample data were supplemented by those derived from experiments, while bathymetry and meteorological parameters were measured across the study area. Data collection was undertaken in the Irish and northern North Seas, across the NE Atlantic and up to the marginal Arctic pack ice zone. This includes the territorial waters of the UK, Norway and the Russian Arctic, and extends from coastal fjords to the ocean margins. The data were collected during the period 2001-2007 over a number of cruises: RRS Discovery cruise D257, RRS James Clark Ross cruises JR75 and JR127, RRS Charles Darwin cruise CD176 and FS Poseidon cruise PO300/2. Measurements were taken using a variety of instrumentation, including conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) profilers with attached auxiliary sensors, bathymetric echosounders, sediment samplers, trawl nets and acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs), while incubation chambers were used for shipboard experiments. The programme was designed to advance the understanding of how marine systems in Northern Seas respond to environmental and anthropogenic change and was developed in three themes: Theme A - Understanding fjordic systems insights for coastal and oceanic processes; Theme B - Ocean Margins: the interface between the coastal zone and oceanic realm; Theme C - Measuring and modelling change: sea sensors and bioinformatics. Theme B included the Ellett Line Time Series. The Northern Seas Programme was co-ordinated by the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS). Data from the programme are held at the British Oceanographic Data Centre.
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048101
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-09-29
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-04-21
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED216
- 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 Scottish Association for Marine Science
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Owner Scottish Association for Marine Science
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Originator
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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INSPIRE themes
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SeaDataNet PDV
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- Stable isotopes in water bodies
- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere
- Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column
- Dissolved oxygen parameters for sediments
- Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water column
- Geological sample radioactivity
- Carbon concentrations in sediment
- Seabed photography
- Bacteria generic abundance in water bodies
- Microzooplankton generic abundance in water bodies
- Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance
- Concentration of organic matter in water bodies
- Zoobenthos taxonomy-related counts
- Organosulphur and organoselenium species concentration parameters in water bodies
- Nitrogen concentrations in sediment
- Temperature of the water column
- Cetacean abundance
- Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
- Concentration of inorganic sulphur species in sediment pore water
- Atmospheric humidity
- Turbulence in the water column
- Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column
- Salinity of the water column
- Virus abundance in water bodies
- Water body lipid concentrations
- Phytoplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies
- Bathymetry and Elevation
- Inorganic chemical composition of sediment or rocks
- Sediment age
- Dissolved trace metalloid and inorganic selenium concentrations in water bodies
- Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column
- Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
- Nutrient concentrations in sediment pore waters
- Radioactivity in water bodies
- Ammonium and ammonia concentration parameters in water bodies
- Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
- Dissolved organic carbon concentration in the water column
- Raw fluorometer output
- Air pressure
- Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
- Phytoplankton generic abundance in water bodies
- Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
- Snow and ice chemistry
- Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
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Vertical Coverages
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MEDIN metadata record availability
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations apply
- Other constraints
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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
- Other constraints
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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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- Environment
- Planning cadastre
- Biota
- Geoscientific information
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Oceans
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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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North Sea
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Irish Sea
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Greenland Sea
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Norwegian Sea
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Begin date
- 2001
- End date
- 2007
- 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/projects/partners/research_centres/sams/ Data management webpages
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/216/ BODC online data delivery service
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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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; fluorometers; radiometers; bathythermographs; single-beam echosounders; multi-beam echosounders; underwater cameras; benthos samplers; sediment traps; hydrophones; unconsolidated sediment corers; rock corers; acoustic backscatter sensors; transmissometers; CTD; current profilers; dissolved gas sensors; demersal trawl nets; shipboard incubators.
Metadata
- File identifier
- aa05e044fb015ff0acb36db74ce3edf6 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
Point of contact
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