00802535eaae574191486113d8ecbf9c English dataset Polly Hadžiabdić British Oceanographic Data Centre Head of the BODC Requests Team Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ pointOfContact 2026-03-17T11:04:30 MEDIN 3.1.2 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP CARBON-OPS: air-sea carbon flux observation British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048CARBONOPS 2017-10-03 publication 2011-05-17 creation 2011-01-25 revision EDMED4288 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ 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. Unknown Plymouth Marine Laboratory Unknown +44 (0)1752 633 100 Prospect Place The Hoe Plymouth England PL1 3DH United Kingdom forinfo@pml.ac.uk http://www.pml.ac.uk owner Unknown Plymouth Marine Laboratory Unknown +44 (0)1752 633 100 Prospect Place The Hoe Plymouth England PL1 3DH United Kingdom forinfo@pml.ac.uk http://www.pml.ac.uk originator British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ custodian British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ distributor asNeeded 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 SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2023-12-12 revision Oceanographic geographical features Meteorological geographical features Atmospheric conditions Geographical grid systems GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 revision unknown SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision otherRestrictions No limitations apply Data are only available on the basis of case-by-case negotiation for usage otherRestrictions Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence English location oceans climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere biota -180.00 180.00 -90.00 90.00 SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision World 2007-01-01 2010-12-31 Delimited Network Common Data Form Ocean Data View https://www.bodc.ac.uk/carbon-ops/ CARBON-OPS website View information about the CARBON-OPS: air-sea carbon flux observation capability. information dataset 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 2010-12-08 publication 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. true 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.