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FRUELA project - Cruises database

The dataset comprises physical, biogeochemical and biological measurements from the Southern Ocean. The data were collected in the Bransfield and Gerlache Straits and Bellingshausen Sea between 1995 and 1996. Hydrographic casts provided profiles of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, transmittance, chlorophyll and photosynthetically active radiation, while water samples were analysed for bacteria, zooplankton and a biogeochemical parameters such as nutrient concentrations. Sediment cores were also analysed for nutrients, while drifting traps provided sedimentation flux measurements and shipboard experiments yielded production data. The majority of measurements were collected during two consecutive cruises of the BIO Hesperides between early December 1995 and early February 1996. The hydrographic profiles were collected using a CTD and the data were stored as approximately 300 individual ASCII files per cruise, with data stored at 1dbar resolution. Several hundred discrete measurements (water samples and sediment cores) were collected in total. An array of moorings deployed for one year in the Western Bransfield Strait Basin provided sediment trap samples for biological and biogeochemical analysis. The FRUELA project was part of the Spanish contribution to the study of biogeochemical carbon fluxes in the Southern Ocean. Three major zones, with contrasting physico-chemical and biological characteristics were considered: Bellingshausen, including the Northwest Bellingshausen Sea and comprising the southern boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (SbyACC); Bransfield, including the Western Bransfield Strait and the northeastern part of the Gerlache Strait; and Gerlache, including the rest of the Gerlache Strait. The research involved a number of Spanish institutions and was coordinated by the University of Oviedo and the Institute of Marine Sciences (CSIC). The data are held by the British Oceanographic Data Centre.

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Alternate title
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048096
Date (Publication)
2017-10-03
Date (Creation)
2010-09-27
Date (Revision)
2010-09-27
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED211
Originator
  University of Oviedo, Biology of Organisms and Systems departament - Unknown ( Unknown )
Campus del Cristo , Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas , Universidad de Oviedo , Catedratico Rodrigo Uria s/n , Oviedo , 33071 , Spain
+34 985104774
+34 985104777
http://www.uniovi.es/bos
Originator
  ICM-CSIC/ Institute of Marine Sciences - Unknown ( Unknown )
Paseo Marítimo de la Barceloneta, 37-49 , Barcelona , 08003 , Spain
+34 932 309500
+34 932 309555
http://www.icm.csic.es
Custodian
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Director
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded As needed
SeaDataNet PDV
  • Dissolved organic carbon concentration in the water column
  • Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column
  • Zooplankton feeding
  • Microzooplankton grazing
  • Zooplankton non taxonomy-related biomass expressed as carbon per unit volume of the water column
  • New production in water bodies
  • Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
  • Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
  • Primary production in the water column
  • Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column
  • Sedimentation flux of carbon, nitrogen or organic matter in the water column
  • Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
  • Salinity of the water column
  • Bacteria non taxonomy-related biomass expressed as carbon per unit volume of the water column
  • Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
  • Zooplankton non taxonomy-related biomass expressed as nitrogen per unit volume of the water column
  • Zooplankton taxonomy-related abundance per unit volume of the water column
  • Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column
  • Regenerated production in water bodies
  • Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water column
  • Microzooplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies
  • Microzooplankton taxonomy-related biomass expressed as carbon per unit volume of the water column
  • Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
  • Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
  • Temperature of the water column
  • Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
Vertical Coverages
  • unknown
MEDIN metadata record availability
  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
INSPIRE themes
  • Species distribution
  • Oceanographic geographical features
Use limitation
Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans
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Geographic identifier
Laptev Sea

Date (Revision)
2015-02-19

Begin date
1995
End date
1996
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
Distributor
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Director
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Statement
Instrument(s) used to collect data: fluorometers; current meters; radiometers; nutrient analysers; discrete water samplers; sediment traps; dissolved gas sensors; unconsolidated sediment corers; shipboard incubators; titrators; spectrophotometers; liquid scintillation counters; transmissometers; CTD.
File identifier
5edc3de0483f5668b49b24e9120faf94 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2018-02-06T15:16:38
Metadata standard name
MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
Metadata standard version
Version 2.3.8
Point of contact
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Polly Hadžiabdic ( Head of the BODC Requests Team )
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
 
 

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