BGS Hosted Metadata
Long-term monitoring of Signy Island lakes chemistry by BAS, 1963-2004
The long term monitoring of water chemistry in Signy Island lakes is unique in polar limnology, in its duration (30+ years), detail, and range of sites. It details seasonal patterns of snow and ice cover, inorganic nutrient status and chlorophyll-a and includes vertical profiles of various physical chemical parameters. There are detailed data for several study lakes and twice/thrice yearly analyses for all the Signy Island lakes. Temperature and light climate has been studied in certain lakes using automatic data loggers. Micrometeorological monitoring with additional data loggers provided data on solar radiation (PAR, UVR), air temperature, humidity and wind conditions. Data are collected by chemical analysis, use of temperature, pH light probes and observation.
The 'grand prix' was the sampling of 16 lakes in a short period (approx. one week), this was carried out perhaps two or three times a year. Approximately three to five lakes were sampled monthly or fortnightly in more detail, these were representative of the 16 lakes.
Comparative studies were also undertaken in the Arctic.
The long-term programme was established in 1971, although some observations were made in 1963/1964 and 1969/1970. The programme finished in 2004.
As the exact months of the data collection were not provided, and the metadata standard requires a YYYY-MM-DD format, this dataset has been dated as 1st January for start date, and 31st December for stop date.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2004-12-14
- Date (Revision)
- 2004-12-14
- Date (Publication)
- 2004-12-14
- Date (released)
- 2004-12-14
- Edition
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1
- Unique resource identifier
- b179a6c3-c03f-426c-9cfa-5bd7c081c591
- Codespace
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uuid
- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00063
- Codespace
- Other citation details
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Please cite this item as: None
- Credit
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No credit.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Antarctic Survey Peat, Helen
Author British Antarctic Survey Ellis-Evans, John
Author NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- Completed
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Lakes
- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Nutrient Cycling
- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Microbiota > Chlorophyll
- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Microbiota > Pigments
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Lake Ice
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Ice Depth/Thickness
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Lake Ice
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Water Quality/Water Chemistry > Chlorophyll
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Water Quality/Water Chemistry > Inorganic Matter
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Water Quality/Water Chemistry > Light Transmission
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Water Quality/Water Chemistry > Nutrients
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Water Quality/Water Chemistry > Organic Matter
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Water Quality/Water Chemistry > Oxygen
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Water Quality/Water Chemistry > pH
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Water Quality/Water Chemistry > Water Temperature
- Theme
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Land cover
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Environmental monitoring facilities
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chlorophyll
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lakes
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pH
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water chemistry
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- Place
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Antarctica
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Signy Island South Orkney Islands
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Requests for data can be made via the UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) at BAS.
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
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- Begin date
- 1963-01-01
- End date
- 2004-12-31
- Supplemental Information
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It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
- Title
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European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-11-12
- Cited responsible party
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role European Petroleum Survey Group
Publisher
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
- Version
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6.18.3
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Distributor
- Units of distribution
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bytes
- Transfer size
- 1
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- File identifier
- b179a6c3-c03f-426c-9cfa-5bd7c081c591 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2004-12-14
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003(E)
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
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