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Marine Scotland temperature and salinity profiles and mooring data, from waters around Scotland, 1989 to present

The data set comprises temperature and salinity measurements, and nutrient concentrations from strategic locations in the offshore and oceanic waters around Scotland. Additional parameters, including concentrations of dissolved oxygen, suspended particulate material, and chlorophyll pigments, are available for many sites. The measurements are from research cruises taking place typically three times each year, and dating back to 1989. The data set now forms one of the longest hydrographic time series in the world. Marine Scotland scientists use the research vessels FRV Scotia and FRV Alba na Mara to deploy Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) probes from the sea surface to the seabed at a number of fixed stations and other sites of interest. The CTD rigs include ancillary sensors and water sampling devices, which are used to collect water samples for calibration of the in situ sensor data. In 2001, short and long term moorings were also added to Marine Scotland’s data collection activities with current meters, temperature recorders and water level recorders being deployed on moorings in waters around Scotland. Similar to the CTD casts, the research vessels FRV Scotia and FRV Alba na Mara are used to deploy and recover the moorings. Marine Scotland undertakes research and monitoring in both the freshwater and marine environments to provide scientific and technical advice on a wide range of marine and fisheries issues. This is with an aim to examine how the environmental status of Scotland’s seas and oceans varies in response to many pressures, including wide scale natural variability. This will help secure the Scottish Governments’ vision of clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse marine and coastal environments, managed to meet the long term needs of nature and people. Marine Scotland is part of, and funded by the Scottish Government. Marine Scotland makes annual submissions of CTD and mooring data to BODC.

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Alternate title
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048Marine_Scotland
Date (Publication)
2017-10-03
Date (Creation)
2018-09-25
Date (Revision)
2018-09-25
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6351
Owner
  Marine Scotland Science - Unknown ( Unknown )
Marine Laboratory, PO Box 101 , Aberdeen , Aberdeenshire , AB11 9DB , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1224 876544
Originator
  Marine Scotland Science - Unknown ( Unknown )
Marine Laboratory, PO Box 101 , Aberdeen , Aberdeenshire , AB11 9DB , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1224 876544
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
INSPIRE themes
  • Elevation
  • Oceanographic geographical features
SeaDataNet PDV
  • Temperature of the water column
  • Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
  • Density of the water column
  • Sea level
  • Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
  • Salinity of the water column
  • Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
  • Electrical conductivity of the water column
  • Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
MEDIN metadata record availability
  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
Vertical Coverages
  • unknown
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations apply
Other constraints
Data are freely available
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
No conditions apply
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans
  • Elevation
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Geographic identifier
North Atlantic Ocean

Date (Revision)
2021-10-28

Geographic identifier
North Sea

Date (Revision)
2021-10-28

Begin date
1989-01-17
End date
2021-12-20 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.

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 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: fluorometers; optical backscatter sensors; nutrient analysers; CTD; dissolved gas sensors.

File identifier
9995a3c8df5a5c5d925c02e7452318b3 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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