CARBON-OPS: air-sea carbon flux observation
The CARBON-OPS data set comprises partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2) and ancilliary parameters, measured aboard selected UK research vessels between 2007 and 2008. The parameter suite includes geographical position; partial pressure and fugacity of CO2; sea surface temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen concentration; air pressure, temperature and humidity; occasionally the parameter suite also includes fluorescence, transmittance, wind speed and direction. CARBON-OPS, led by Nick Hardman-Mountford at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council under the Knowledge Transfer initiative (2007-2009). The aim of the project was to develop an automated supply chain of ocean surface and atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements from research ships to operational end-users. The data were first provided in near real-time following an initial level of automated quality control and processing. Following a secondary level of manual quality control and processing (delayed mode) the data are integrated into the BODC National Oceanographic Database. Measurements were taken aboard five UK research vessels: RRS Discovery, RRS James Clark Ross; RRS James Cook; RV Plymouth Quest; and RV Prince Madog.
Simple
- Alternate title
- British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048CARBONOPS
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2011-05-17
- Date (Revision)
- 2011-01-25
- Identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED4288
Owner
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Unknown
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Unknown
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http://www.pml.ac.uk
Prospect Place
,
The Hoe
,
Plymouth
,
England
,
PL1 3DH
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1752 633 100
http://www.pml.ac.uk
Originator
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Unknown
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Unknown
)
http://www.pml.ac.uk
Prospect Place
,
The Hoe
,
Plymouth
,
England
,
PL1 3DH
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1752 633 100
http://www.pml.ac.uk
Custodian
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Director
Joseph Proudman Building
,
6 Brownlow Street
,
Liverpool
,
Merseyside
,
L3 5DA
,
United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Distributor
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Director
Joseph Proudman Building
,
6 Brownlow Street
,
Liverpool
,
Merseyside
,
L3 5DA
,
United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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- Salinity of the water column
- Ozone and oxygen concentrations in the atmosphere
- Metadata parameters
- Partial pressure (pCO2) and fugacity (fCO2) of carbon dioxide in the water column
- Air pressure
- Raw oxygen sensor output
- Variable fluorescence parameters
- Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
- Temperature of the water column
- Date and time
- Other meteorological measurements
- Raw fluorometer output
- Wind strength and direction
- Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
- Atmospheric humidity
- Air temperature
- Raw suspended particulate material concentration sensor output
- Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
- Carbon monoxide and dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- MEDIN metadata record availability
- SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations apply
- Other constraints
- Data are only available on the basis of case-by-case negotiation for usage
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Location
- Oceans
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Biota
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- Geographic identifier
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World
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-08-07
- Begin date
- 2007-01-01
- End date
- 2010-12-31
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
- OGP
- Distribution format
- OnLine resource
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CARBON-OPS website
View information about the CARBON-OPS: air-sea carbon flux observation capability.
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Conformance result
- 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
- The CARBON-OPS dataset is created by an automated supply chain of ocean surface and atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements from selected UK research ships. The measurements and supporting data are sent in near real-time via Iridium satellite communications to Plymouth Marine Laboratory. They are then forwarded daily to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) to undergo an initial level of automated quality control and processing, prior to being loaded in the BODC CARBON-OPS database. A complete list of the automated quality control and processing procedures applied to CARBON-OPS data is available at http://www.bodc.ac.uk/carbon-ops/data/processing/.Instrument(s ) used to collect data: anemometers; fluorometers; thermosalinographs; continuous water samplers; salinity sensor; geothermometers; Differential Global Positioning System receivers; transmissometers; water body temperature sensor; water temperature sensor; dissolved gas sensors; continuous air samplers; meteorological packages.
- File identifier
- 00802535eaae574191486113d8ecbf9c XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-03-17T11:04:30
- Metadata standard name
- MEDIN
- Metadata standard version
- 3.1.2
Point of contact
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Polly Hadžiabdić
(
Head of the BODC Requests Team
)
Joseph Proudman Building
,
6 Brownlow Street
,
Liverpool
,
Merseyside
,
L3 5DA
,
United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Overviews
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Associated resources
Not available