Underway Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data from Pentland Firth, April to October 2009
The dataset comprises current profiles and temperature data from 9 half-day survey cruises in the Pentland Firth during April, June, July and October 2009. The data were collected using an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) mounted on the Aurora, the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) survey vessel, and have been fully processed and calibrated by Dr Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy from the Environmental Research Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands prior to submission to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC). The circulation patterns of the inner sound, Pentland Firth were studied. The purpose of the study was to improve knowledge and capabilities for understanding wave and tidal renewable energy devices and predicting environmental impacts of renewable energy development. The data are available on request from BODC.
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- Alternate title
- British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048PENTLANDADCP
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2012-08-17
- Date (Revision)
- 2026-03-17
- Identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED5778
Owner
University of the Highlands and Islands, Environmental Research Institute
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Unknown
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Unknown
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https://eri.ac.uk/
Castle Street
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Thurso
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Caithness
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KW14 7JD
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United Kingdom
+44 (0)1847 889574
https://eri.ac.uk/
Originator
University of the Highlands and Islands, Environmental Research Institute
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Unknown
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Unknown
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https://eri.ac.uk/
Castle Street
,
Thurso
,
Caithness
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KW14 7JD
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1847 889574
https://eri.ac.uk/
Custodian
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Director
Joseph Proudman Building
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6 Brownlow Street
,
Liverpool
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Merseyside
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L3 5DA
,
United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Distributor
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Director
Joseph Proudman Building
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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
- MEDIN metadata record availability
- SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions 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
- 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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- Geographic identifier
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North Sea
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-08-07
- Begin date
- 2009-04-02
- End date
- 2009-10-29
- Supplemental Information
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Publication year: 2011-12-31
Publication title: Current patterns in the Inner Sound (Pentland Firth) from underway ADCP data.
Publication authors: Goddijn-Murphy, L.M.
Publication editors: J Atmos Ocean Tech
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
- OGP
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
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Enquiries contact details
BODC's address, telephone and fax numbers for general enquiries
- 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
- 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: current profilers.
- File identifier
- 59536fdbe1965412bc9f69389c666237 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-03-17T11:31:49
- Metadata standard name
- MEDIN
- Metadata standard version
- 3.1.2
Point of contact
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Polly Hadžiabdić
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Head of the BODC Requests Team
)
Joseph Proudman Building
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6 Brownlow Street
,
Liverpool
,
Merseyside
,
L3 5DA
,
United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
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