Bristol Channel Suspended Sediments Data Bank (collected by the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (IOS), Taunton) (1974-1978)
The data set comprises 2193 profiles of turbidity from an area of the Severn Estuary (UK) between the Shoots and Bridgwater Bay between 1974 and 1978. The data were collected as analogue records of continuous vertical profiles on a time series cross-section basis, where possible, over 13.5 hours from a drifting ship. All measurements were collected between 0 m and 39 m depth. The data coverage is derived from 172 stations along 17 survey lines, the density of coverage varying between 1 and 99 records per station. Each analogue record was digitised as approximately 200 pairs of XY coordinates. The X ordinates were then converted to depth (in metres) using a depth calibration and the Y ordinates to parts per million (PPM) of sediment using siltmeter calibration data. The Fluid Mud data bank was designed by the (former) Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (IOS) Taunton, UK, and the data were originally stored at IOS on a PDP 11 computer. They were then moved to an Oracle RDBMS at the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) and stored as the Bristol Channel Suspended Sediments Data Bank.
INSPIRE
Identification
- File identifier
- 0d0ff19b8b8b5e70888999dbce8f0873 XML
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Online resource
Resource identifier
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
Encoding
Projection
- code
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Classification of data and services
- Topic category
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- Oceans
Classification of data and services
Coupled resource
Coupled resource
Classification of data and services
Coupled resource
Coupled resource
Keywords
- INSPIRE themes
- SeaDataNet PDV
- Vertical Coverages
- MEDIN metadata record availability
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
- Begin
- 1974
- End
- 1978
Temporal extent
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2011-02-10
- Date (Revision)
- 2011-02-11
Quality and validity
- Lineage
- Instrument(s) used to collect data: transmissometers.
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Restrictions on access and use
- Access constraints
- Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Taunton
- inapplicable
- Organisation name
- British Oceanographic Data Centre
- enquiries@bodc.ac.uk
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Taunton
- inapplicable
- Organisation name
- British Oceanographic Data Centre
- enquiries@bodc.ac.uk
Metadata information
Contact for the metadata
- Organisation name
- British Oceanographic Data Centre
- enquiries@bodc.ac.uk
- Date stamp
- 2018-02-06T15:16:38
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
SDS
Conformance class 1: invocable
Access Point URL
Endpoint URL
Technical specification
Conformance class 2: interoperable
Access constraints
Limitation
Use constraints
Limitation
Responsible custodian
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Associated resources
Not available