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Rapid Climate Change Programme - oceanographic data set (2004-2008)

The Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) data set comprises a diverse collection of oceanographic and benthic observations, including profiles of temperature, salinity, dissolved gases and currents. The dataset also includes discrete measurements of plankton, stable isotopes, dissolved metals, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and nutrients in the water column, sediment grain size parameters and geochemistry, and atmospheric concentrations of inorganic halogens. The RAPID data were collected from numerous locations in the North Atlantic, North Sea, Greenland and Europe via over 30 cruises between 2004 and 2008. Many of the oceanographic data resulted from an extensive mooring array in the North Atlantic devoted to monitoring the Atlantic overturning circulation. These mooring arrays are continuing to return data in the follow-on programmes, Rapid Climate Change - Will the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation Halt? (RAPID-WATCH, 2008-2015) and RAPID - Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (RAPID-AMOC, 2015 onwards) which will result in a decadal time series spanning the North Atlantic. RAPID, RAPID-WATCH and RAPID-AMOC aim to investigate and understand the causes of rapid climate change, with a primary (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation. A Rapid Climate Change project office has been established at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. The cruise and mooring data are managed by the British Oceanographic Data Centre and are supplemented by atmospheric model output held at the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC).

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Alternate title
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048105
Date (Publication)
2017-10-03
Date (Creation)
2018-07-23
Date (Revision)
2024-08-13
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED230
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 Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
  • Inorganic chemical composition of sediment or rocks
  • Vertical velocity of the water column (currents)
  • Zooplankton biovolume
  • Geological sample density
  • Temperature of the water column
  • Plankton biomass expressed as carbon per unit volume of the water column
  • Plankton abundance per unit volume of the water column
  • Stable isotopes in water bodies
  • Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
  • Salinity of the water column
  • Sediment grain size parameters
  • Concentration of inorganic halogens in the atmosphere
  • Sea level
  • Sediment water content, porosity and surface area
  • Dissolved trace metalloid and inorganic selenium concentrations in water bodies
  • Chlorofluorocarbon concentrations in the water column
  • Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
  • Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column
  • Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
  • Stable isotopes in sediment
  • Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
  • Particulate trace metalloid and inorganic selenium concentrations in water bodies
  • Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
  • Soil
  • Species distribution
  • Oceanographic geographical features
  • Elevation
  • Mineral resources
  • Atmospheric conditions
SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
  • unknown
MEDIN metadata record availability
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations apply
Other constraints
Data are only available to members of a designated organisation or virtual organisation, following agreement to the terms and conditions of the British Oceanographic Data Centre Data Licence. The licence terms and conditions are available via https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/documents/nodb/267795/
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
  • Geoscientific information
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Oceans
  • Environment
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Geographic identifier
North Atlantic Ocean

Date (Revision)
2023-09-13

Geographic identifier
Caribbean Sea

Date (Revision)
2023-09-13

Geographic identifier
North Sea

Date (Revision)
2023-09-13

Begin date
2004-01-01
End date
2008-11-24
Supplemental Information

Publication year: 2008-11-03

Publication title: Programme web site: http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/rapid/rapid.php

Publication authors: Val Byfield

Publication editors: Val Byfield

Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace
OGP
Distribution format
  • Delimited ()

  • Network Common Data Form ()

  • Ocean Data View ()

  • Text or Plaintext ()

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: sea level recorders; current meters; plankton nets; discrete water samplers; continuous water samplers; particulates samplers; unconsolidated sediment corers; rock corers; acoustic backscatter sensors; CTD; current profilers.

File identifier
f9da00c6d18057c6bd2d923ecdd5cabd XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2024-08-13T09:01:13
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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