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GEOTRACES Programme Data Set (2006 onwards) - Trace elements and isotopes in the water column

The data set comprises trace metal and isotope data from the GEOTRACES programme. The data set incorporates the core GEOTRACES parameters for example, Iron (Fe), Aluminum (Al), Zinc (Zn), Manganese (Mn), Cadmium (Cd), Copper (Cu), delta 15 Nitrogen, delta 13 Carbon, Thorium (Th) isotopes, Protactinium(Pa) isotopes, Lead (Pb) isotopes, Neodymium (Nd) isotopes and aerosols, These data are also supported by ancillary measurements. GEOTRACES is global in scope and consists of ocean sections complemented by regional process studies. The ocean sections are designed to cross regions that provide the most information about sources, sinks and internal cycling of trace elements and isotopes (TEIs). The programme started in 2006, with the first International Polar Year - GEOTRACES cruise, and aims to study all major ocean basins over the next decade. Advances in clean sampling protocols and analytical techniques provide an unprecedented capability for measurement of a wide range of TEIs. All measurements collected for GEOTRACES will use ultra clean techniques as many of the countries involved have built specialist winches, wires and conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) units specifically for this programme. SAFe standards (standards developed following the Sampling and Analysis of Fe (SAFe) cruise) and GEOTRACES inter-calibration protocols provide quality control.The GEOTRACES programme builds on the data collected during the Geochemical Ocean Section Study (GEOSECS) in the 1970s. The potential afforded by advances in sampling protocol and analytical techniques had not been realized since then, largely because of a lack of coordinated research. The GEOTRACES programme includes scientists from approximately 30 nations, although the key countries are the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Netherlands, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, India and China.

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Alternate title
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048GEOTRACES
Date (Publication)
2017-10-03
Date (Creation)
2011-05-17
Date (Revision)
2017-01-30
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED4283
Owner
  Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University - Unknown ( Unknown )
P.O. Box 1000 , 61 Route 9W , Palisades , New York , 10964-1000 , United States
+1 (845) 359-2900
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu
Originator
  Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University - Unknown ( Unknown )
P.O. Box 1000 , 61 Route 9W , Palisades , New York , 10964-1000 , United States
+1 (845) 359-2900
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu
Owner
  University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences - Unknown ( Unknown )
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 - Unknown ( Unknown )
Parks Road , Oxford , Oxfordshire , OX1 3PR , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1865 272000
https://www.earth.ox.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
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
SeaDataNet PDV
  • Total metal concentrations in water bodies
  • Dissolved inorganic nitrogen concentration in the water column
  • Stable isotopes in water bodies
  • Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
  • Dissolved metal concentrations in the water column
  • Temperature of the water column
  • Electrical conductivity of the water column
INSPIRE themes
  • Oceanographic geographical features
Vertical 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
  • Environment
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Geographic identifier
World

Date (Revision)
2021-10-28

Begin date
2006-01-01
End date
2022-03-02 After
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace
OGP
Distribution format
  • Delimited ()

  • Network Common Data Form ()

  • Ocean Data View ()

OnLine resource
BODC online data delivery service

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

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/1dbc9294-4e65-6530-e053-6c86abc09fb2

Bratkic A.; Vahcic M. (2015). Concentrations of various mercury species (total mercury, THg; monomethyl mercury, MeHg; dissolved gaseous mercury, DGM; and dimethylmercury, DMeHg) as measured during GA10 GEOTRACES cruise in the South Atlantic Ocean. British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK. doi:10/629.

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/33d2c2c7-84dc-718b-e053-6c86abc0da4d

Humphreys M.P.; Dumousseaud C.; Achterberg E.P. (2016). Discrete carbonate chemistry measurements from UK GEOTRACES cruises D357 and

JC068 on the South Atlantic transect GA10. British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK. doi:10/bjgs.

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/33d2c2c7-84dd-718b-e053-6c86abc0da4d

Tynan E.; Achterberg E.P. (2016). Dissolved inorganic carbon and total alkalinity measurements from CTD niskin collected depth profiles along the tropical and subtropical North and South Atlantic Ocean on GEOTRACES cruise D361. British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK. doi:10/bjgt.

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/33d2c2c7-84df-718b-e053-6c86abc0da4d

Tynan E.; Achterberg E.P.; Pampin-Baro J. (2016). Dissolved organic carbon and total dissolved nitrogen measurements from CTD niskin collected depth profiles along the tropical and subtropical North and South Atlantic Ocean on GEOTRACES cruise D361. British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK. doi:10/bjhz.

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/2317515c-05c1-6d14-e053-6c86abc0690e

Casciotti K.; McIlvin M.R.; Forbes M.S.; Sigman D. (2016). Nitrate isotopes of nitrate in the GEOTRACES North Atantic Zonal Transect--Casciotti laboratory. British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK. doi:10/bt53.

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/2317515c-05c0-6d14-e053-6c86abc0690e

Weigand A.; Marconi D.; Sigman D.; Casciotti K. (2016). Nitrate isotopes of nitrate in the US GEOTRACES North Atlantic Zonal Transect -- Sigman laboratory. British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK. doi:10/bt52.

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/7a150d33-956b-0fec-e053-6c86abc0b35c

Deng F., Henderson G., Castrillejo M., Browning T.J. (2018). GEOTRACES GA01 (cruise GEOVIDE) <sup>231</sup>Pa, <sup>230</sup>Th and <sup>232</sup>Th activities. British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK. doi: 10/cws2

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/7e8af0db-4916-6cdd-e053-6c86abc012f1

Gerringa L.J.A., Rijkenberg M.J.A., Slagter H. (2019). Dissolved Fe-binding organic ligands in the Mediterranean Sea - GEOTRACES GA04. British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK. doi: 10/czbv

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/cf2d9ba9-d51d-3b7c-e053-8486abc0f5fd

GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product Group (2021). The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2021 (IDP2021). NERC EDS British Oceanographic Data Centre NOC doi: 10/g55p

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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 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: salinity sensor; inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometers; CTD; water temperature sensor.

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0935d7caca995b4c89e42359dd2208b4 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 - 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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