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Monterey Co-ordinated Canyon Experiment datasets

In the Monterey Bay Coordinated Canyon Experiment (CCE), measurements were taken using an array of instruments which include: moorings; sediment traps, Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP); transmissometers; vertical profilers; Benthic Instrument Nodes (BIN); Sediment Transport Event Detectors (STEDs); Benthic Event Detectors (BEDs); Autonomous Monitoring Transponder (AMT); wave sensors, autonomous underwater vehicles and wave gliders. The project collected physical oceanographic data in the Monterey Canyon study area, off the coast of Central California over an 18 month period between October 2015 and April 2017. This project was a long term effort to monitor turbidity currents using a variety of new instruments and technologies to assess movement of water and sediment, assess evolution and shape of the sea floor and monitor physical processes within flows at various spatial scales. The project was led by Monterey Bay Aquarium Institute (MBARI) in collaboration with researchers from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Ocean University of China (OUC), National Oceanography Centre (NOC) Southampton and University of Hull, UK. MBARI are responsible for the long term data management of all datasets generated by the project. Datasets are hosted at the Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS) and not held at the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC). A full data report is available from https://www.mbari.org/science/seafloor-processes/geological-changes/coordinated-canyon-experiment-datareport-main-page/.

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Alternate title
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048MontereyCanyonExperiment
Date (Publication)
2019-07-17
Date (Creation)
2023-11-25
Date (Revision)
2024-07-18
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6929
Owner
  Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute - Unknown ( Unknown )
7700 Sandholdt Road , Moss Landing , California , 95039-9644 , United States
+1 831 775 1700
https://www.mbari.org/
Originator
  Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute - Unknown ( Unknown )
7700 Sandholdt Road , Moss Landing , California , 95039-9644 , United States
+1 831 775 1700
https://www.mbari.org/
Custodian
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Director
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Distributor
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - 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
  • Temperature of the water column
  • Bathymetry and Elevation
  • Other physical and chemical properties of suspended particulate material
  • Other wave statistics
  • Density of the water column
  • Acoustic backscatter in the water column
  • Moored instrument depth
  • Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
  • Vertical velocity of the water column (currents)
  • Salinity of the water column
  • Platform or instrument orientation
  • Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
MEDIN metadata record availability
  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Elevation
  • Hydrography
  • Oceanographic geographical features
SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
  • unknown
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations apply
Other constraints
Data are freely available for teaching and research, providing due acknowledgment in any publication produced, following agreement to the terms and conditions of the British Oceanographic Data Centre Data Licence. The licence terms and conditions are available via https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/documents/nodb/267795/
Other constraints
Data are freely available
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence
Other constraints
No conditions apply
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Oceans
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Geographic identifier
Pacific Ocean

Date (Revision)
2025-08-07

Begin date
2014-05-09
End date
2018-05-08
Supplemental Information

Publication year: 2019-05-21

Publication title: Coordinated Canyon Experiment (CCE) data report. MBARI.org. Retrieved 5/21/2019. from https://www.mbari.org/science/seafloor-processes/geological-changes/coordinated-canyon-experiment-datareport-main-page/.

Publication authors: Lundsten, E

Publication editors: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace
OGP
Distribution format
  • Delimited ()

OnLine resource
Dataset Web Site
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
These datasets were generated under the Monterey Coordinated Canyon Experiment lead by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and involved collaboration with partners in the US, UK and China. NERC contributed to project funds under NERC grant reference NE/K011480/1. All datasets are held by MBARI and will adhere to their data policy procedures. BODC have created a metadata record to enhance discoverability to users in the UK to meet NERC requirements.Instrument(s) used to collect data: wave recorders; current profilers; multi-beam echosounders; salinity sensor; water pressure sensors; CTD; current meters; water temperature sensor; single-beam echosounders; sediment traps.
File identifier
301dbfb99dd459de822acbe3043b1a65 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2026-03-16T22:39:25
Metadata standard name
MEDIN
Metadata standard version
3.1.2
Point of contact
  Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute - Eve Lundsten ( Research Technician )
7700 Sandholdt Road , Moss Landing , California , 95039-9644 , United States
+1 831 775 1700
https://www.mbari.org/
 
 

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