Marine Environment Monitoring and Assessment National database (MERMAN) Contaminants, nutrients, biological and eutrophication effects in water - 1999 onwards
Simple
- Alternate title
- British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048MERMAN_CW
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-06-22
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-04-21
- Identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6540
http://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk
http://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk
https://www.sepa.org.uk/
https://www.sepa.org.uk/
http://www.cefas.co.uk/
http://www.cefas.co.uk/
http://www.afbini.gov.uk/
http://www.afbini.gov.uk/
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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- Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water column
- Ammonium and ammonia concentration parameters in water bodies
- Temperature of the water column
- Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
- Metadata parameters
- Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
- Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column
- Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column
- Quality control flags
- Particulate total and organic phosphorus concentrations in the water column
- Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column
- Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
- Secchi disk depth
- Salinity of the water column
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- MEDIN metadata record availability
- SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
- 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
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- Oceans
- Biota
- Geographic identifier
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North Sea
- Date (Revision)
- 2023-09-13
- Geographic identifier
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Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland
- Date (Revision)
- 2023-09-13
- Geographic identifier
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Irish Sea
- Date (Revision)
- 2023-09-13
- Geographic identifier
-
Bristol Channel
- Date (Revision)
- 2023-09-13
- Geographic identifier
-
Celtic Sea
- Date (Revision)
- 2023-09-13
- Geographic identifier
-
English Channel
- Date (Revision)
- 2023-09-13
- Geographic identifier
-
Norwegian Sea
- Date (Revision)
- 2023-09-13
- Geographic identifier
-
Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
- Date (Revision)
- 2023-09-13
- Begin date
- 1999-07-18
- End date
- 2024-08-13 After
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
- OGP
- Distribution format
-
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Delimited
()
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Delimited
()
- OnLine resource
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MERMAN data information webpage
BODC webpage describing aacess to the data
- 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
- The Competent Monitoring Authorities send the collected samples to accredited laboratories where they are analysed. A weighting is calculated, based on the quality of the analysis. The weighting score incorporates the laboratory accreditation, reference material, inter-laboratory comparisons, detection limits, uncertainties and standard deviations.The MERMAN Management Team facilitate and coordinate the data submissions. This achieved by liaising with the CMAs, providing advice and managing the database through database enhancements and the implementation of database rules.Once submissions are complete the MERMAN Management Team curate and check the data submissions investigating any noticeable errors. This is done by using visual tools from various local software and running the data through ICES checking software. Any errors to the data are then ranked by status, the CMAs are informed and the most critical errors are corrected and resubmitted.
- File identifier
- 631408f8e58e5c96b86bfaa21206950c XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-08-13T08:40:26
- Metadata standard name
- MEDIN
- Metadata standard version
- 3.1.1
Overviews
Spatial extent
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NERC Data Catalogue Service