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Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) time series data and CTD cast data collected at the Wyville-Thomson Ridge (2003-2013)

This dataset consists of current velocity measurements of the water column from an upward-looking Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) deployed on the seabed and also includes CTD casts from an SBE 911+ CTD taken a long the Wyville Thompson Ridge. The mooring is situated in the region of the Wyville Thomson Ridge – a notable bathymetric feature running north-west from the Scottish shelf towards the Faroe Bank. The gully present between the Ridge and the parallel Ymir Ridge is the study site chosen for mooring work that began in 2003 and ended in 2013. Mooring deployment durations have typically ranged from between five and twelve months. Successive deployments have enabled a multi-year time series to develop. There have, however, been periods of instrumentation loss, which account for some gaps in the overall record (most noticeably during 2008/2009). Servicing of the mooring has been achieved using various research vessels and has often been incorporated into the schedule of the annual cruises occupying the Extended Ellett Line. The mooring consists of an anchored buoy housing an RDI Long Ranger ADCP, designed to rest on the seabed, with the instrument facing upwards. Current velocity measurements from the mooring help to provide valuable insight into regional ocean circulation. A small, poorly quantified, component of the southward-flowing deep water from the Arctic cascades over the Wyville Thomson Ridge from the Faroe Bank Channel into the northern Rockall Trough. Maintaining this time series will afford a better understanding of this outflow. The Wyville Thomson mooring work is led by Toby Sherwin at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS).

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Alternate title

British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048WTRMOORING

Date (Publication)
2017-10-03
Date (Creation)
2017-09-29
Date (Revision)
2017-10-02
Citation identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED5773
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Scottish Association for Marine Science

Unknown

laurence.mee@sams.ac.uk

Owner

Scottish Association for Marine Science

Unknown

laurence.mee@sams.ac.uk

Originator

British Oceanographic Data Centre

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

Custodian

British Oceanographic Data Centre

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

Distributor
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

SeaDataNet PDV

  • Raw temperature and/or salinity instrument output
  • Acoustic backscatter in the water column
  • Vertical velocity of the water column (currents)
  • Temperature of the water column
  • Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)

Vertical Coverages

  • unknown

INSPIRE themes

  • Oceanographic geographical features

MEDIN metadata record availability

  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations apply
Other constraints

Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence

Spatial representation type
Text, table
Language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
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Geographic identifier
North Atlantic Ocean

SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision

Begin date
2003-08-01
End date
2013-05-08
Supplemental Information

Publication year: 2007-12-26

Publication title: Quantifying the overflow across the Wyville Thomson Ridge into the Rockall Trough

Publication authors: Toby Sherwin, Colin Griffiths, Mark Inall, William Turrell

Publication editors: Deep Sea Research Part 1: Oceanographic Research Papers

Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace

OGP

Distribution format
Name Version
Network Common Data Form
Ocean Data View
Text or Plaintext
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/5773/

BODC online data delivery service

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title

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

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

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: salinity sensor; acoustic backscatter sensors; CTD; current meters; water temperature sensor.

Metadata

File identifier
eb8d8e03d0f45a71b68a1b746e84978e XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2021-12-20T06:31:16
Metadata standard name
MEDIN
Metadata standard version

3.1.1

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Oceanographic Data Centre

Polly Hadžiabdić

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

Point of contact
 
 

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