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NERC Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS) data in the Southern Ocean (1992)
The dataset contains physical, biological and chemical oceanographic measurements, and meteorological data. Hydrographic measurements include temperature, salinity, attenuance and backscatter, pH and dissolved oxygen concentrations, while water samples were analysed for concentrations of carbon, nitrogen, hydrocarbons, nutrients and pigments. 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. Measurements were taken at sites in the Bellinghausen Sea as part of a 2-ship Eulerian experiment between the 28th of October and the 17th of December 1992. The data were collected via (i) underway sampling (SeaSoar Undulating Oceanographic Recorder (UOR), lightfish, hull-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP), meteorology and surface ocean parameters) of which there are 121179 records and (ii) discrete sampling (conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) and expendable bathythermograph (XBT) casts, bottle stations, net hauls, productivity incubations) of which there are over 1000 deployments and experiments. The study aimed to measure the magnitude and variability of carbon and nitrogen fluxes during early summer in the Southern Ocean, with particular emphasis on rates and processes in the marginal ice zone. The data were collected and supplied by UK participants in the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS). The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) are responsible for calibrating, processing, quality controlling and documenting the data and assembling the final data set. Underway data are stored as 1 minute interval time series for each cruise with all parameters merged on date/time. The data are fully quality controlled; checks were made for instrument malfunction, fouling, constancy, spikes, spurious values, calibration errors, baseline and salt-water corrections. The discrete data are stored in a relational database (Oracle RDBMS), chiefly as vertical profiles and are uniquely identified by a combination of deployment number and depth.
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- Alternate title
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048006
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-09-30
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-04-21
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED151
- 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 Western Washington University, Department of Biology
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Owner Western Washington University, Department of Biology
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Originator Oregon State University, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
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Owner Oregon State University, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
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Originator University of Cape Town, Department of Oceanography
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Owner University of Cape Town, Department of Oceanography
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Originator University of Edinburgh, Department of Geology
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Owner University of Edinburgh, Department of Geology
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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 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 Wales, School of Ocean Sciences
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Owner University of Wales, School of Ocean Sciences
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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 Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory
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Owner Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory
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Originator British Antarctic Survey
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Owner British Antarctic Survey
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Originator Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Owner Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Originator Southampton Oceanography Centre
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Owner Southampton Oceanography Centre
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Originator
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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SeaDataNet PDV
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- Solar Radiation
- Total dissolved inorganic carbon (TCO2) concentration in the water column
- Salinity of the water column
- Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column
- Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
- Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
- Air pressure
- Bathymetry and Elevation
- Air temperature
- Concentration of other hydrocarbons in the water column
- Primary production in the water column
- Partial pressure (pCO2) and fugacity (fCO2) of carbon dioxide in the water column
- Regenerated production in water bodies
- Temperature of the water column
- Zooplankton feeding
- Uptake of other nutrients in the water column
- Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column
- Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
- Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water column
- Acoustic backscatter in the water column
- Phytoplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies
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INSPIRE themes
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MEDIN metadata record availability
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Vertical Coverages
- 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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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Oceans
- Biota
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- Geographic identifier
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Southern Ocean
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Geographic identifier
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South Atlantic Ocean
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Geographic identifier
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South Pacific Ocean
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Begin date
- 1992
- End date
- 1992
- 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/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/151/ 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.
- Pass
- 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: meteorological packages; fluorometers; radiometers; bathythermographs; thermosalinographs; single-beam echosounders; particulates samplers; redox potential sensors; gas chromatographs; optical microscopes; CTD undulators; transmissometers; CTD; current profilers; pH sensors.
Metadata
- File identifier
- ac198da145d55dde9cf62f3d8951b068 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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