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Physical Oceanography Datasets generated in the Western Core Box Area around South Georgia (2006 - onwards)

The Western Core Box dataset comprises measurements of physical oceanographic parameters and complementary meteorological data collected as part of the British Antarctic Survey Long Term and Monitoring Survey Program. Data collection covers the sea area around South Georgia Island and spans from 2006 to the present day. Data collection has a roughly annual frequency and is done through hydrographic surveys with a Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) and via the ships' underway monitoring system. Measurements include water temperature, conductivity, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), transmittance, fluorescence and oxygen concentrations, as well as air temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, total incidence radiation (TIR), wind speed and direction. The Western Core Box survey has been implemented to measure the change and variability in the Earth system and monitoring of long-term processes. It also provides valuable information on the status of the marine ecosystem in this area. All data are collected by the British Antarctic Survey. The data are subject to a two year organisational moratorium from collection after which they become publicaly available.

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Alternate title
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048WesternCoreBoxdataset
Date (Publication)
2017-10-03
Date (Creation)
2016-09-23
Date (Revision)
2021-02-19
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6566
Owner
  British Antarctic Survey - Unknown ( Unknown )
High Cross , Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 OET , United Kingdom
https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/uk-pdc/
Originator
  British Antarctic Survey - Unknown ( Unknown )
High Cross , Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 OET , United Kingdom
https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/uk-pdc/
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
SeaDataNet PDV
  • Electrical conductivity of the water column
  • Temperature of the water column
  • Salinity of the water column
  • Air pressure
  • Vertical spatial coordinates
  • Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
  • Atmospheric humidity
  • Wind strength and direction
  • Air temperature
  • Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
  • Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
  • Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
  • Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere
  • Platform or instrument orientation
  • Density of the water column
  • Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
INSPIRE themes
  • Oceanographic geographical features
  • Elevation
  • Coordinate reference systems
  • Atmospheric conditions
  • Geographical grid systems
  • Meteorological geographical features
MEDIN metadata record availability
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
Vertical Coverages
  • unknown
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations apply
Other constraints
Data are only available to members of a designated organisation or virtual organisation, 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
  • Location
  • Elevation
  • Biota
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Oceans
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Geographic identifier
Southern Ocean

Date (Revision)
2021-10-28

Geographic identifier
Weddell Sea

Date (Revision)
2021-10-28

Geographic identifier
Scotia Sea

Date (Revision)
2021-10-28

Begin date
2006-04-01
End date
2021-12-20 After
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace
OGP
Distribution format
  • 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.

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 British Antarctic Survey 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: anemometers; lowered current profilers; bathythermographs; thermosalinographs; salinity sensor; flow meters; Global Navigation Satellite System receivers; water pressure sensors; CTD; transmissometers; water temperature sensor; expendable CTDs; meteorological packages.

File identifier
15f3bcd45db35dcf80bd979f1ce2bc8f XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2021-12-20T06:31:16
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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