The 'End of the Pier' Menai Strait data set is a collection of biogeochemical and physical parameters (including temperature, salinity, transmittance and attenuation of the water column) measured in the Menai Strait since 1955.The aim is to concatenate data both historical and current, preventing the loss of valuable information and creating a time series for a variety of parameters in a unique environment. Data have been extracted from Ph.D. and M.Sc. theses undertaken at the School of Ocean Sciences (SOS) at Bangor University, in addition to published sources. In all cases data has undergone a very thorough quality audit and sufficient detail is provided so that the original source may be located. Data collection is ongoing but the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) only holds data up to 2003.

This dataset comprises 117 hydrographic data profiles, collected by a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensor package, during April - May 1989 from a pre-determined 123-station survey grid covering the southern North Sea (south of 56N). A complete list of all data parameters are described by the SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (PDV) keywords assigned in this metadata record. The data were collected by the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory as part of the North Sea Project water column survey.

This dataset comprises 70 hydrographic data profiles, collected by a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensor package, in December 1988 from a pre-determined 123-station survey grid covering the southern North Sea (south of 56N). A complete list of all data parameters are described by the SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (PDV) keywords assigned in this metadata record. The data were collected by the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Bidston Laboratory as part of the North Sea Project water column survey.

This dataset comprises 113 hydrographic data profiles, collected by a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensor package, in November 1988 from a pre-determined 123-station survey grid covering the southern North Sea (south of 56N). A complete list of all data parameters are described by the SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (PDV) keywords assigned in this metadata record. The data were collected by the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Bidston Laboratory as part of the North Sea Project water column survey.

This dataset comprises 50 hydrographic data profiles, collected by a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensor package, in October 1994 from stations in the North East Norwegian Sea, 69 - 71 N, 15 - 19 E. A complete list of all data parameters are described by the SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (PDV) keywords assigned in this metadata record. The data were collected by the University of Tromsø Norwegian College of Fishery Science as part of the Ocean Margin Exchange (OMEX) I project.

This dataset comprises 119 hydrographic data profiles, collected by a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensor package, during May - June 1989 from a pre-determined 123-station survey grid covering the southern North Sea (south of 56N). A complete list of all data parameters are described by the SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (PDV) keywords assigned in this metadata record. The data were collected by the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory as part of the North Sea Project water column survey.

This dataset comprises 60 hydrographic data profiles, collected by a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensor package, in May 1994 from stations in the North East Norwegian Sea between 69 - 71 N, 15 - 19 E. A complete list of all data parameters are described by the SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (PDV) keywords assigned in this metadata record. The data were collected by the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai`i at Manoa as part of the Ocean Margin Exchange (OMEX) I project.

This dataset comprises 36 hydrographic data profiles, collected by a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensor package, during July - August 1996 from stations along the Hebridean Shelf and shelf edge west of Scotland, centred around 56.5 N, 9.0 W in the North East Atlantic. A complete list of all data parameters are described by the SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (PDV) keywords assigned in this metadata record. The data were collected by the Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory as part of the Land Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) Shelf Edge Study (SES).

This dataset comprises 23 hydrographic data profiles, collected by a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensor package, in July 1997 from stations off the coast of the Iberian Peninsula and in the English Channel. A complete list of all data parameters are described by the SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (PDV) keywords assigned in this metadata record. The data were collected by the University of Liège Department of Astrophysics Geophysics and Oceanography as part of the Ocean Margin Exchange (OMEX) II project.

This dataset comprises 114 hydrographic data profiles, collected by a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensor package, in August 1988 from a pre-determined 123-station survey grid covering the southern North Sea (south of 56N). A complete list of all data parameters are described by the SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (PDV) keywords assigned in this metadata record. The data were collected by the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Bidston Laboratory as part of the North Sea Project water column survey.