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Project data collected within the West Antarctic Peninsula and Ryder Bay 2014 to present

This dataset consists of measurements of conductivity, temperature, depth, fluorescence, optical backscatter, oxygen, and turbulence microstructure collected from gliders, as well as temperature depth measurements from moored Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler and turbulence microstructure measurements from microstructure profilers. The ADCP was moored to a depth of 476m in Ryder Bay, West Antarctic Peninsula, between 01 March 2016 and 12 December 2016. The mooring was deployed on R/V Lawrence M Gould cruise LMG16-01 and recovered on RRS James Clark Ross cruise JR16003. NOC and BAS Gliders were deployed during the 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 Antarctic field seasons and MSS Microstructure profilers were deployed between February and August 2016 from Rothera, within the Ryder Bay area. This cruise formed the field component of NERC Discovery Science project "What controls the influx and mixing of warm waters onto the polar ocean shelves?" The main objectives of the project were: 1. To quantify, describe and understand the spatial and time-varying patterns of lateral and vertical mixing on the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf. 2. To resolve the dominant mechanisms driving lateral and vertical heat fluxes, with a specific focus on understanding how and where heat from the deep ocean waters is transferred to the upper ocean. 3. To understand the role of key shelf-edge processes in controlling these phenomena, in particular by understanding and quantifying the importance of these processes in causing intrusions of warm, saline deep-ocean waters onto polar shelves. To deliver on these objectives, the project used data from both traditional and novel oceanographic platforms, with the aim of describing how warm waters move from shelf edges to coasts, where land-based melting of ice can occur. Discovery Science Research Fellowship grant NE/L011166/1 was led by Dr James Alexander Brearley at the National Environmental Research Council (NERC), British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Science Programmes. Funding ran from 09 June 2014 to 08 June 2019. Glider, moored ADCP and MSS microstructure profiler data have been received by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC).

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Alternate title
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_MixingPolarShelves_data_Brearley
Date (Publication)
2019-02-13
Date (Creation)
2023-12-06
Date (Revision)
2023-12-08
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6862
Owner
  UK Polar Data Centre - Unknown ( Unknown )
High Cross , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/uk-pdc/
Originator
  UK Polar Data Centre - Unknown ( Unknown )
High Cross , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , 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 Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
  • Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
  • Optical backscatter
  • Salinity of the water column
  • Temperature of the water column
  • Platform or instrument orientation
  • Moored instrument depth
  • Raw fluorometer output
  • Raw oxygen sensor output
  • Sea level
  • Raw light meter output
  • Raw temperature and/or salinity instrument output
  • Turbulence in the water column
  • Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
  • Acoustic backscatter in the water column
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Elevation
  • Atmospheric conditions
  • Oceanographic geographical features
SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
  • unknown
MEDIN metadata record availability
  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
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
  • Elevation
  • Biota
  • Oceans
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Geographic identifier
Drake Passage

Date (Revision)
2024-12-11

Begin date
2014-06-09
End date
2025-06-06 After
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace
OGP
Distribution format
  • Binary ()

  • Delimited ()

  • Text or Plaintext ()

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/b05fad6f-3d2a-6c0c-e053-6c86abc0d848

Brearley A. (2021). A time series of current measurements from a bottom-mounted, upward looking, moored Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler in Ryder Bay, West Antarctic Peninsula from 2016-2017. British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi: 10/fsjg

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/ba5c8162-586c-1310-e053-6c86abc01af6

Scott R.M., Brearley A., Naveira Garabato A.C., Venables H., Meredith M.P. (2021). Glider hydrographic and dissipation data collected during 2016 in Ryder Bay, west Antarctic Peninsula. British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi: 10/fx2f

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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 scientists for 'What controls the influx and mixing of warm waters onto the polar ocean shelves?' project, which ran from 2014 to 2019, 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: fluorometers; current profilers; acoustic backscatter sensors; microstructure sensors; CTD.
File identifier
96dbd2f2008955cca9c33313be8a3da5 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-06-06T14:18:03
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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