An Alternative Framework to Assess Marine Ecosystem Functioning in Shelf Seas (AlterEco)

An Alternative Framework to Assess Marine Ecosystem Functioning in Shelf Seas (AlterEco) will utilise a small fleet of submarine and surface autonomous vehicles combined with ongoing observational programmes to capture a seasonal cycle of physical, chemical and biological measurements on repeat transects over ~150km in the North Sea between November 2017 and January 2019. This dataset contains near real-time hydrographic measurements through the water column obtained from submarine Slocum gliders and Seagliders. The submarine vehicles have also been equipped with auxiliary sensors such as turbulence probes, nutrient sensors and acoustic sensors. Data from these platforms will be converted into the international 'Everyone's Gliding Observatories (EGO)' exchange format. This dataset will also contain measurements taken from CTDs deployed on eight cruises to provide calibration data for the autonomous vehicles. AlterEco involves collaboration between scientists at a number of organisations (National Oceanography Centre (NOC, lead), University of East Anglia (UEA), University of Liverpool (UoL), Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) and the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas). In addition, there are a number of UK and international project partners.

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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048AlterEco
Date (Publication)
2018-08-24
Date (Creation)
2019-01-03
Date (Revision)
2020-12-03
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6754
Owner
  National Oceanography Centre (Liverpool) - Unknown ( Unknown )
Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
+44 (0)151 795 4800
http://noc.ac.uk
Originator
  National Oceanography Centre (Liverpool) - Unknown ( Unknown )
Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
+44 (0)151 795 4800
http://noc.ac.uk
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/
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asNeeded As needed
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No limitations apply
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Data are freely available
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Text, table
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EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans
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Geographic identifier
North Sea

Date (Revision)
2021-10-28

Begin date
2017-05-01
End date
2022-03-02 After
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace
OGP
Distribution format
OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/b57d215e-065f-7f81-e053-6c86abc01a82

Hull T.; Kaiser J.(2020). An Alternative Framework to Assess Marine Ecosystem Functioning in Shelf Seas (AlterEco) post-recovery Seaglider data between November 2017 and April 2019 in the North Sea. British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi:10/fk8m

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/86429662-97b8-74fa-e053-6c86abc0a97c

Carr N., Wihsgott J.U., Lichtman I.D., Krahmann G., Woodward S.C.A., Williams C.A.J., Palmer M.R. (2019). An Alternative Framework to Assess Marine Ecosystem Functioning in Shelf Seas (AlterEco) Slocum Glider data, February to October 2018 in the North Sea. Involving units 436 (Stella), 345 (Cabot), 305 (Dolomite) during missions AE2, AE3 and AE4 respectively. British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi: 10/c4ws

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/b58e83f0-d8f3-4a83-e053-6c86abc0bbb5

Loveday B.R.; Smyth T.(2020). An Alternative Framework to Assess Marine Ecosystem Functioning in Shelf Seas (AlterEco) Primary productivity estimates derived from ocean glider in situ sensors and photosynthetically available radiation estimates from in situ and satellite data between November 2017 and May 2019 in the North Sea. British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi:10/fm39

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/bda5dc4d-0d48-0fde-e053-6c86abc0487a

Birchill A.; Beaton A.D.; Pascal R.W.; Hull T.; Kaiser J.(2021). An Alternative Framework to Assess Marine Ecosystem Functioning in Shelf Seas (AlterEco) post-recovery Seaglider Lab-on-a-chip (LoC) nitrate + nitrite (NOx) data between November 2017 and April 2019 in the North Sea. British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi:10/f6dg

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/bf632e43-d8e9-43ab-e053-6c86abc0ab7a

Birchill A.; Beaton A.D.; Pascal R.W.; Hull T.; Kaiser J.(2021). An Alternative Framework to Assess Marine Ecosystem Functioning in Shelf Seas (AlterEco) post-recovery Seaglider Lab-on-a-chip (LoC) phosphate data between August and September 2018 in the North Sea. British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi:10/f984

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/c80806e5-7334-6915-e053-6c86abc09409

Possenti L.; Kaiser J.(2021). Glider measurements of seawater pH and oxygen in central North Sea during August 2019. NERC EDS British Oceanographic Data Centre NOC. doi:10/gpvh

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
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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: optical backscatter sensors; salinity sensor; nutrient analysers; CTD; discrete water samplers; water temperature sensor; dissolved gas sensors.
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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2022-03-02T12:41:14
Metadata standard name
MEDIN
Metadata standard version
3.1.1
Point of contact
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - 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/
 
 

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