NW European Shelf Tidal Current Constituent Data Bank (1970- 1988)

The data set comprises full tidal analyses for over 800 current meter records collected at 400 sites in the seas around the British Isles, covering the continental shelf area and the shelf slope. The vast majority of the analyses in this data set are based on harmonic analyses, where the amplitude and phases of the tidal constituents are determined by a least squares fit. The data were selected from the BODC Current Meter Databank so as to provide representative coverage over the shelf areas - only good quality series were selected.

Alternate title: British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048014

Date (Publication): 2017-10-03

Date (Creation): 2010-01-11

Date (Revision): 2026-02-12

Identifier: http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED581

Owner

British Oceanographic Data Centre - Unknown ( Unknown )

Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom

https://www.bodc.ac.uk/

Originator

British Oceanographic Data Centre - Unknown ( Unknown )

Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom

https://www.bodc.ac.uk/

Owner

Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory - Unknown ( Unknown )

Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom

http://www.pol.ac.uk

Originator

Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory - Unknown ( Unknown )

Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom

http://www.pol.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/

Maintenance and update frequency: asNeeded As needed

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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages

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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/

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

Elevation
Oceans

Geographic identifier

North Sea

Date (Revision): 2025-08-07

Geographic identifier

Irish Sea

Date (Revision): 2025-08-07

Geographic identifier

English Channel

Date (Revision): 2025-08-07

Geographic identifier

Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

Date (Revision): 2025-08-07

Begin date: 1970

End date: 1988

Unique resource identifier: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Codespace: OGP

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OnLine resource: Enquiries contact details
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Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

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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 and provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre for long term archive and management.Instrument(s) used to collect data: sea level recorders; current meters.

File identifier: d82749466bd257a18996ad95bd42de89 XML

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-03-11T13:05:09

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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