5a6779dba7fc5676a7e8c0c1e04d76e6 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 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ pointOfContact 2018-08-24T16:26:10 MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard Version 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP JC066 cruise underway dataset, November to December 2011 British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048SWIR_benthic_diversity 2018-08-24 publication 2017-12-04 creation 2018-08-24 revision EDMED6756 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ This dataset consists of measurements of underway meteorology, navigation and sea surface hydrography. A comprehensive survey of the Southwest Indian Ocean, more specifically, the Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR), was undertaken between 07 November 2011 and 21 December 2011 on the RRS James Cook cruise JC066. Navigation data were collected using an Applanix POSMV system and meteorology and sea surface hydrography were collected using the NMF Surfmet system. Both systems were run for the duration of the cruise, excepting times for cleaning, entering and leaving port, and while alongside. Data were collected as part of the NERC-funded project “Benthic Diversity of seamounts in the Southwest Indian Ocean”. The project aimed to describe and analyse the diversity and distribution of benthic assemblages, from meiofauna to megafauna, on seamounts in the central section of the SWIR between 41S, 42E and 33S, 58E. The NERC funded project was funded primarily by grant NE/F00504/1, with child grants NE/F006292/1 and NE/F005563/1. The lead grant is held at the University of Oxford, Department of Zoology, by Professor Alex David Rogers. The child grants are held at the natural History Museum, Life Sciences, by Dr Gordon Patterson, and the Scottish Asssociation for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, by Dr Bhavani Narayanaswamy, respectively. Underway navigation, meteorology and sea surface hydrography data have been received as raw files by BODC and are available upon request. Unknown British Oceanographic Data Centre Unknown Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ originator British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ custodian asNeeded Bathymetry and Elevation Raw suspended particulate material concentration sensor output Gravity Salinity of the water column Air pressure Raw light meter output Sound velocity and travel time in the water column Electrical conductivity of the water column Air temperature Platform or instrument orientation Atmospheric humidity Raw fluorometer output Wind strength and direction Metadata parameters Temperature of the water column Horizontal spatial co-ordinates SeaDataNet PDV 2018-04-05 revision unknown Vertical Coverages 2013-02-06 revision Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 revision Geology Meteorological geographical features Geographical grid systems Hydrography Oceanographic geographical features Elevation Atmospheric conditions INSPIRE themes 2009-07-31 revision Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence otherRestrictions Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence English biota oceans climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere geoscientificInformation location 42.00 58.00 -42.00 -33.00 2011-11-07 2011-12-21 British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ distributor dataset This dataset was created by scientists for the 'Benthic Diversity of seamounts in the Southwest Indian Ocean' project, which ran from 2011 to 2015, 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: anemometers; meteorological packages; fluorometers; thermosalinographs; single-beam echosounders; multi-beam echosounders; salinity sensor; Differential Global Positioning System receivers; transmissometers; water temperature sensor.