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Mechanisms Responsible for Mesoscale Eddy Energy Dissipation (MeRMEED) Offshore of Great Abaco, Bahamas from 2015-2019.

The MeRMEED project aimed to determine and quantify how the interaction between mesoscale eddies and the steep slope along ocean western boundaries affects the dissispation of mesoscale eddies in these regions. The project comprised of a multi-platfrom programme involving ship-based and mooring-based obverations, including autonomous gliders, vertical microstructure profilers, CTDs and ADCPs. The MeRMEED project was run between 2015-2019, and focussed on the slope offshore of Great Abaco, Bahamas. The data contained in this dataset includes the data associated with three MeRMEED research expeditions aboard the R/V Walton Smith from 2016-12-01 to 2018-03-16. The data includes vertical microstructure profiler (VMP) measurements of the turbulent dissipation rate and temperature variance, profiles of temperature and conductivity from a CTD sensor attached to the VMP, and along-track meridional and zonal velocity profiles from a vessel mounted 75 kHz ADCP. Also included are two 75 KHz ADCPs mounted on the existing RAPID/MOCHA Western Boundary 1 mooring. The project was run by Eleanor Frajka-Williams (project PI) and Dafydd Gwyn Evans (post-doc) and funded by NERC Discovery Science grant NE/N001745/1.

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Alternate title
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048-NE-N001745-1
Date (Publication)
2022-02-18
Date (Creation)
2020-11-18
Date (Revision)
2020-11-20
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED7080
Owner
  University of Southampton - Unknown ( Unknown )
University Road , Southampton , SO17 1BJ , United Kingdom
+44 (0)23 8059 5000
http://www.southampton.ac.uk
Originator
  University of Southampton - Unknown ( Unknown )
University Road , Southampton , SO17 1BJ , United Kingdom
+44 (0)23 8059 5000
http://www.southampton.ac.uk
Owner
  National Oceanography Centre (Southampton) - Unknown ( Unknown )
University of Southampton , Waterfront Campus , European Way , Southampton , Hampshire , SO14 3ZH , United Kingdom
http://noc.ac.uk
Originator
  National Oceanography Centre (Southampton) - Unknown ( Unknown )
University of Southampton , Waterfront Campus , European Way , Southampton , Hampshire , SO14 3ZH , United Kingdom
http://noc.ac.uk
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
  • Temperature of the water column
  • Moored instrument depth
  • Electrical conductivity of the water column
  • Turbulence in the water column
  • Salinity of the water column
  • Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
Vertical Coverages
  • unknown
MEDIN metadata record availability
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
INSPIRE themes
  • Oceanographic geographical features
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
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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Oceans
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Geographic identifier
North Atlantic Ocean

Date (Revision)
2021-10-28

Begin date
2015-09-01
End date
2020-02-28
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace
OGP
Distribution format
  • Binary ()

  • Delimited ()

  • Network Common Data Form ()

  • Text or Plaintext ()

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/b465b7f1-6cb0-73f8-e053-6c86abc0914f

Frajka-Williams E., Evans D.G. (2020). Mooring-based ADCP full ocean velocity data mounted on the RAPID/MOCHA mooring WB1 offshore of Great Abaco, Bahamas, in 1400 m water depth from November 2015-March 2017. British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi: 10/fjpx

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/b465b7f1-6cb1-73f8-e053-6c86abc0914f

Frajka-Williams E., Evans D.G. (2020). Vertical microstructure profiler, CTD and vessel-mounted ADCP data for WS16336-MeRMEED-1, a 7 day research expedition along the slope offshore of Great Abaco, Bahamas in December 2016. British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi: 10/fjp7

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/b465b7f1-6cb2-73f8-e053-6c86abc0914f

Frajka-Williams E., Evans D.G. (2020). Vertical microstructure profiler, CTD and vessel-mounted ADCP data for WS17305-MeRMEED-2, an 11 day research expedition along the slope offshore of Great Abaco, Bahamas in October-November 2017. British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi: 10/fjqh

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/b465b7f1-6cb3-73f8-e053-6c86abc0914f

Frajka-Williams E., Evans D.G. (2020). Vertical microstructure profiler, CTD and vessel-mounted ADCP data for WS18066-MeRMEED-3, an 8 day research expedition along the slope offshore of Great Abaco, Bahamas in March 2018. British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi: 10/fjq2

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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 the NERC Discovery Science project titled ‘Mechanisms Responsible for Mesoscale Eddy Energy Dissipation (MeRMEED)’ with grant reference NE/N001745/1 following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for long-term archive and data publication in the BODC Published Data Library as well as ingestion into the BODC NODB.

Instrument(s) used to collect data: CTD.

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b4fd5d76e43557a5835dc9a078860e9f XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2022-02-18T11:20:57
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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