NERC Data Catalogue Service
The oceanographic dataset collected during the Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage (COMICS) Project (2017-2022)
The COMICS (Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage) project consists of observations, at sea, of particle flux and stable isotopes. It applies organic geochemical and molecular biological techniques to samples collected using nets and traps. The study areas are the tropical Atlantic and Southern Oceans. The results will be combined with models to quantify the flow of carbon in the ocean’s ‘twilight’ zone in order to accurately model global climate change. This ‘twilight’ zone is the part of the ocean between 100m and 1000m below the sea surface, where only a small amount of light from the sun can still penetrate. By investigating carbon dynamics in the ocean interior, COMICS will help to improve predictions of future global climate change. The COMICS project is led by the National Oceanography Centre and is a collaboration between the British Antarctic Survey and the universities of Queen Mary London, Liverpool, Oxford and Southampton. The project received funding from the Natural Environmental Research Council and runs between 2017 and 2022.
Simple
- Alternate title
- British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048COMICS171018
- Date (Publication)
- 2018-08-24
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-03-22
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-03-22
- Identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6725
Owner
University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science
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Unknown
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Unknown
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http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/
National Oceanography Centre, European Way
,
Southampton
,
Hampshire
,
SO14 3ZH
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)23 8059 2011
http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/
Originator
University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science
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Unknown
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Unknown
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http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/
National Oceanography Centre, European Way
,
Southampton
,
Hampshire
,
SO14 3ZH
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)23 8059 2011
http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/
Owner
University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences
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Unknown
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Unknown
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https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/
Parks Road
,
Oxford
,
Oxfordshire
,
OX1 3PR
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1865 272000
https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/
Originator
University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences
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Unknown
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Unknown
)
https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/
Parks Road
,
Oxford
,
Oxfordshire
,
OX1 3PR
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1865 272000
https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/
Owner
University of Liverpool Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences
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Unknown
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Unknown
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https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/earth-ocean-and-ecological-sciences/
Jane Herdman Building
,
Liverpool
,
Merseyside
,
L69 3GP
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)151 794 5146
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/earth-ocean-and-ecological-sciences/
Originator
University of Liverpool Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences
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Unknown
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Unknown
)
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/earth-ocean-and-ecological-sciences/
Jane Herdman Building
,
Liverpool
,
Merseyside
,
L69 3GP
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)151 794 5146
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/earth-ocean-and-ecological-sciences/
Owner
Queen Mary University of London School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
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Unknown
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Unknown
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http://www.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk
Mile End Road
,
London
,
London
,
E1 4NS
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7882 3200
http://www.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk
Originator
Queen Mary University of London School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
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Unknown
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Unknown
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http://www.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk
Mile End Road
,
London
,
London
,
E1 4NS
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7882 3200
http://www.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk
Owner
British Antarctic Survey
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Unknown
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Unknown
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High Cross
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Madingley Road
,
Cambridge
,
CB3 OET
,
United Kingdom
https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/uk-pdc/
Originator
British Antarctic Survey
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Unknown
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Unknown
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High Cross
,
Madingley Road
,
Cambridge
,
CB3 OET
,
United Kingdom
https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/uk-pdc/
Owner
National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
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Unknown
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Unknown
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University of Southampton
,
Waterfront Campus
,
European Way
,
Southampton
,
Hampshire
,
SO14 3ZH
,
United Kingdom
http://noc.ac.uk
Originator
National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
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Unknown
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Unknown
)
University of Southampton
,
Waterfront Campus
,
European Way
,
Southampton
,
Hampshire
,
SO14 3ZH
,
United Kingdom
http://noc.ac.uk
Custodian
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Director
Joseph Proudman Building
,
6 Brownlow Street
,
Liverpool
,
Merseyside
,
L3 5DA
,
United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Distributor
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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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 PDV
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- Zooplankton defecation rates in the water column
- Carbon concentrations in suspended particulate material
- Zooplankton feeding
- Dissolved organic carbon uptake and production in the water column
- Primary production in the water column
- Zooplankton growth rates
- Dissolved organic carbon concentration in the water column
- Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
- Vertical Coverages
- INSPIRE themes
- MEDIN metadata record availability
- 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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- Biota
- Oceans
N
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E
W
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- Geographic identifier
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Southern Ocean
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-28
- Geographic identifier
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South Atlantic Ocean
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-28
- Geographic identifier
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Southeast Atlantic Ocean (20W)
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-28
- Geographic identifier
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Southeast Pacific Ocean (140W)
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-28
- Begin date
- 2017-01-01
- End date
- 2022-04-02
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
- OGP
- Distribution format
- 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
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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 https://www.bodc.ac.uk/submit_data/what_do_we_do_with_your_data/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: fluorometers; optical backscatter sensors; plankton recorders; plankton nets; pelagic trawl nets; continuous water samplers; salinity sensor; in-situ incubators; salinometers; Volume measures; Coupled models; CTD; discrete water samplers; water body temperature sensor; current meters; dissolved gas sensors; gill nets.
- File identifier
- f8a4cf29aa9f5cd0b06ad894f4e06b49 XML
- 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
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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/
Overviews
Spatial extent
N
S
E
W
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Associated resources
Not available