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Rapid Climate Change - Will the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation Halt? (RAPID-WATCH) Programme - oceanographic data set (2008-2015)

The RAPID-WATCH (Rapid Climate Change - Will the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation Halt?) data set consists of pressure, current velocities, temperature, salinity and density time series. Measurements are collected by moored instruments deployed in arrays across the Atlantic at approximately 26.5N for the Monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5N (MOC) project and at each of three sections across the US and Canadian continental slope between Cape Cod and the Grand Banks for the Western Atlantic Variability Experiment (WAVE) project. The data set also consists of conductivity- temperature-depth (CTD) profiles, and ships' underway monitoring system meteorology and surface hydrography collected during the mooring deployment and servicing cruises. The RAPID-WATCH data set follows on from the original Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) Programme oceanographic dataset (2004-2008). It spans from 2008 until 2015. The RAPID-AMOC data set is expected to extend the RAPID_WATCH dataset to 2020. The main aims of the RAPID-WATCH Programme are to provide oceanographic measurements that allow a decade-long time series of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to be derived for use in climate change research. The MOC project is led by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, whilst work on the WAVE element is led by the Liverpool site of the National Oceanography Centre.

Simple

Alternate title
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048RAPID_WATCH
Date (Publication)
2017-10-03
Date (Creation)
2019-01-18
Date (Revision)
2024-08-13
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED4281
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
  National Oceanography Centre (Southampton) - Unknown ( Unknown )
University of Southampton , Waterfront Campus , European Way , Southampton , Hampshire , SO14 3ZH , United Kingdom
http://noc.ac.uk
Originator
  National Oceanography Centre (Southampton) - Unknown ( Unknown )
University of Southampton , Waterfront Campus , European Way , Southampton , Hampshire , SO14 3ZH , United Kingdom
http://noc.ac.uk
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/
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded As needed
MEDIN metadata record availability
  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
  • Temperature of the water column
  • Salinity of the water column
  • Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
  • Vertical velocity of the water column (currents)
  • Sea level
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Oceanographic geographical features
  • Elevation
SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
  • unknown
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
  • Oceans
  • Elevation
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Geographic identifier
North Atlantic Ocean

Date (Revision)
2023-09-13

Geographic identifier
Caribbean Sea

Date (Revision)
2023-09-13

Begin date
2008-04-22
End date
2015-11-30
Supplemental Information

Publication year: 2008-04-01

Publication title: Programme website http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/rapid/rw/

Publication authors: Val Byfield

Publication editors: Val Byfield

Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace
OGP
Distribution format
  • Delimited ()

  • Network Common Data Form ()

  • Ocean Data View ()

  • Text or Plaintext ()

OnLine resource
BODC online data delivery service

National Oceanographic Database data delivery service; pre-filtered for the data collection.

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

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: sea level recorders; inverted echosounders; current profilers; salinity sensor; CTD; current meters; water temperature sensor.

File identifier
018923bec9b256cea899b316456a25d2 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2024-08-13T09:01:13
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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