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NERC Land Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) Rivers, Atmosphere and Coasts (RACS) data set - coastal oceanographic data (1992-1995)
The dataset contains hydrographic and biogeochemical data, including continuous underway measurements of surface temperature, salinity, nutrients, chlorophyll and attenuance, irradiance and bathymetric depth. Underway dissolved oxygen and/or trace metal measurements were also collected on occasion. Hydrographic profiles of temperature, salinity, transmittance, fluorescence, dissolved oxygen (data often of poor quality) and scalar irradiance were undertaken, and associated water samples were routinely analysed for suspended particulate material (SPM), chlorophyll, nutrients and particulate organic carbon/particulate organic nitrogen (POC/PON). In addition, dissolved and particulate trace metals, production, contaminants, dissolved organic carbon/total dissolved nitrogen (DOC/TDN) were determined in some cases. Benthic measurements were also collected, including benthic flux determinations (microcosm experiments), sediment characterisation, pore water chemistry measurements and the quantification of the benthic macrofauna. The coastal oceanographic data set was collected along the east coast of England between Great Yarmouth and Berwick upon Tweed. Data were collected between December 1992 and July 1995 during a series of 17 RRS Challenger cruise legs. Most cruises covered two survey grids: one from Great Yarmouth to the Humber designed around the distribution of the sandbanks and a second simple zig-zag grid from the Humber to Berwick on Tweed. A large number of anchor stations, usually over one or two tidal cycles, were worked in the vicinity of the Humber mouth or the Holderness coast. Each cruise leg returned underway data and conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) data and water bottle rosette samples from grid nodes. A Lasentech in-situ particle sizer was used to obtain grain size distributions at spot depths for each CTD station on many of the cruise legs. Box and multicorer samples were collected on approximately one third of the cruise legs. The River-Atmosphere-Coast Study (RACS) was the component of the Land Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) programme looking at processes from the river catchment into the coastal sea. Investigators include representatives of Plymouth University, Southampton University, Liverpool University, University of East Anglia, Newcastle University, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and the University of Wales, Bangor. All data sets collected during the RACS Challenger cruises are held by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC). All underway and CTD data have been fully calibrated and quality controlled by BODC. The water sample and benthic data sets have been quality controlled by the data originators and submitted to BODC. The data are held in the BODC project database and have been published as part of a fully documented CD-ROM product.
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048005
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-09-16
- Date (Revision)
- 2017-02-01
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED150
- 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 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 Newcastle upon Tyne, Department of Physics
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Owner University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Department of Physics
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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 University of Liverpool, Department of Oceanography
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Owner University of Liverpool, Department of Oceanography
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Originator University of Plymouth, Institute of Marine Studies
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Owner University of Plymouth, Institute of Marine Studies
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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 Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Owner Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Originator
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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SeaDataNet PDV
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- Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column
- Metal concentrations in sediment pore waters
- Nutrient fluxes between the bed and the water column
- Dissolved organic carbon concentration in the water column
- Temperature of the water column
- Nitrogen concentrations in sediment
- Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
- Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
- Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
- Dissolved total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column
- Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
- Radioactivity in water bodies
- Nutrient concentrations in sediment pore waters
- Dissolved trace metalloid and inorganic selenium concentrations in water bodies
- Uptake of other nutrients in the water column
- Urea concentration parameters in the water column
- Metal fluxes between the bed and the water column
- Phytoplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies
- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
- Sediment water content, porosity and surface area
- Ammonium and ammonia concentration parameters in water bodies
- Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
- Suspended particulate material grain size parameters
- Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column
- Sediment grain size parameters
- Concentration of other organic contaminants in the water column
- Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water column
- Salinity of the water column
- Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance
- Dissolved concentration parameters for other gases in the water column
- Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column
- Geological sample radioactivity
- Particulate metal concentrations in the water column
- Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
- Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
- Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
- Carbon concentrations in sediment
- Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
- Bathymetry and Elevation
- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere
- Primary production in the water column
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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
- Geoscientific information
- Environment
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- Geographic identifier
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North Sea
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Begin date
- 1992
- End date
- 1995
- 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/resources/products/data/bodc_products/lois_racs/ BODC data product
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/150/ 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: fluorometers; current meters; radiometers; optical backscatter sensors; thermosalinographs; nutrient analysers; atmospheric radiometers; particulates samplers; salinity sensor; redox potential sensors; unconsolidated sediment corers; gas chromatographs; autoanalysers; optical microscopes; titrators; inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometers; spectrophotometers; gamma-ray spectrometers; transmissometers; CTD; in-situ particle sizers; dissolved gas sensors; pH sensors; sediment settling tubes; shipboard incubators; in-situ incubators.
Metadata
- File identifier
- d6672a39971d56039488f3667de7fe08 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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