BGS Hosted Metadata
UK National Databank of Wave Data (Short term statistics) (1954-1995)
The data set comprises time series of wave height and period data from in-situ wave recorders at fixed locations. Principal parameters are significant/characteristic wave height and mean zero crossing period - usually derived from the analysis of 20 or 30 minute recordings taken at intervals of the order of 3 hours. Data holdings include over 1500 recording months of data from some 60 sites across the continental shelf areas around the British Isles and the NE Atlantic between 1954 and 1995. Recording periods vary from 2 months at some sites to over 15 years. The longer series are noted here: Channel Lightvessel (49 54.4N, 002 53.7W; 01 Sep 1979 - 31 Dec 1985); Dowsing Lightvessel (53 34.0N, 000 50.2W; 01 May 1970 - 30 Apr 1971; 01 Nov 1975 - 30 Jun 1981; 01 Jan 1982 - 31 Dec 1982; 01 Jan 1984 - 31 Dec 1984); Ocean Weather Ship Lima (57 00.0N, 020 00.0W; 01 Jan 1975 - 31 Dec 1983); Saint Gowan Lightvessel (51 30.0N, 004 59.8W; 01 Aug 1975 - 31 Jul 1976; 01 Dec 1976 - 31 Dec 1983); Seven Stones Lightvessel (50 03.8N, 006 04.4W; 31 Jan 1962 - 31 Jan 1963; 01 Jan 1968 - 31 Dec 1969; 01 Jul 1971 - 30 Jun 1974; 01 Apr 1975 - 31 Dec 1985). The data originate primarily from UK and Irish laboratories and are managed by the British Oceanographic Data Centre. Data collection is ongoing at some sites (for example, Seven Stones Lighvessel) but these data are not managed by BODC. They are part of the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) wavenet network.
Simple
- Alternate title
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048022
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-09-16
- Date (Revision)
- 2017-01-30
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED166
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre
Unknown
Originator British Oceanographic Data Centre
Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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MEDIN metadata record availability
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Vertical Coverages
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SeaDataNet PDV
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INSPIRE themes
- Use limitation
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Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Oceans
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- Begin date
- 1954
- End date
- 1995
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Distribution format
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- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/waves/ BODC online data delivery service
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- Dataset
- 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: wave recorders; sea level recorders.
Metadata
- File identifier
- dc2777d3fcee53adb025100a24a6da5a XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2018-02-06T15:16:38
- Metadata standard name
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MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
- Metadata standard version
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Version 2.3.8
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre
Polly Hadžiabdic
Point of contact
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