BGS Hosted Metadata
The oceanographic dataset collected during the Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage (COMICS) Project (2017-2022)
The COMICS (Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage) project consists of observations, at sea, of particle flux and stable isotopes. It applies organic geochemical and molecular biological techniques to samples collected using nets and traps. The study areas are the tropical Atlantic and Southern Oceans. The results will be combined with models to quantify the flow of carbon in the ocean’s ‘twilight’ zone in order to accurately model global climate change. This ‘twilight’ zone is the part of the ocean between 100m and 1000m below the sea surface, where only a small amount of light from the sun can still penetrate. By investigating carbon dynamics in the ocean interior, COMICS will help to improve predictions of future global climate change. The COMICS project is led by the National Oceanography Centre and is a collaboration between the British Antarctic Survey and the universities of Queen Mary London, Liverpool, Oxford and Southampton. The project received funding from the Natural Environmental Research Council and runs between 2017 and 2022.
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048COMICS171018
- Date (Publication)
- 2018-08-24
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-03-22
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-03-22
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6725
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science
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Owner University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science
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Originator University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences
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Owner University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences
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Originator University of Liverpool Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences
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Owner University of Liverpool Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences
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Originator Queen Mary University of London School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
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Owner Queen Mary University of London School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
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Originator British Antarctic Survey
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Owner British Antarctic Survey
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Originator National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
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Owner National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
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Originator British Oceanographic Data Centre
Custodian British Oceanographic Data Centre
Distributor
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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SeaDataNet PDV
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- Zooplankton defecation rates in the water column
- Carbon concentrations in suspended particulate material
- Zooplankton feeding
- Dissolved organic carbon uptake and production in the water column
- Primary production in the water column
- Zooplankton growth rates
- Dissolved organic carbon concentration in the water column
- Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
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Vertical Coverages
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INSPIRE themes
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MEDIN metadata record availability
- 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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- Biota
- Oceans
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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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Southeast Atlantic Ocean (20W)
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Southeast Pacific Ocean (140W)
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Begin date
- 2017-01-01
- End date
- 2022-04-02
- 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 Text or Plaintext
- 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.
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- 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 https://www.bodc.ac.uk/submit_data/what_do_we_do_with_your_data/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; optical backscatter sensors; plankton recorders; plankton nets; pelagic trawl nets; continuous water samplers; salinity sensor; in-situ incubators; salinometers; Volume measures; Coupled models; CTD; discrete water samplers; water body temperature sensor; current meters; dissolved gas sensors; gill nets.
Metadata
- File identifier
- f8a4cf29aa9f5cd0b06ad894f4e06b49 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2022-03-02T12:41:14
- 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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