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Metadata: FRUELA project - Cruises database
Abstract:
The dataset comprises physical, biogeochemical and biological measurements from the Southern Ocean. The data were collected in the Bransfield and Gerlache Straits and Bellingshausen Sea between 1995 and 1996. Hydrographic casts provided profiles of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, transmittance, chlorophyll and photosynthetically active radiation, while water samples were analysed for bacteria, zooplankton and a biogeochemical parameters such as nutrient concentrations. Sediment cores were also analysed for nutrients, while drifting traps provided sedimentation flux measurements and shipboard experiments yielded production data. The majority of measurements were collected during two consecutive cruises of the BIO Hesperides between early December 1995 and early February 1996. The hydrographic profiles were collected using a CTD and the data were stored as approximately 300 individual ASCII files per cruise, with data stored at 1dbar resolution. Several hundred discrete measurements (water samples and sediment cores) were collected in total. An array of moorings deployed for one year in the Western Bransfield Strait Basin provided sediment trap samples for biological and biogeochemical analysis. The FRUELA project was part of the Spanish contribution to the study of biogeochemical carbon fluxes in the Southern Ocean. Three major zones, with contrasting physico-chemical and biological characteristics were considered: Bellingshausen, including the Northwest Bellingshausen Sea and comprising the southern boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (SbyACC); Bransfield, including the Western Bransfield Strait and the northeastern part of the Gerlache Strait; and Gerlache, including the rest of the Gerlache Strait. The research involved a number of Spanish institutions and was coordinated by the University of Oviedo and the Institute of Marine Sciences (CSIC). The data are held by the British Oceanographic Data Centre.
Data holder:
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Use constraints:
Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
Other details | ||
Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 1650 |
Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | FRUELA project - Cruises database |
Alternative title | The purpose of alternative title is to record any additional names by which the dataset may be known. | British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048096 |
File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | 5edc3de0483f5668b49b24e9120faf94 |
Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | EDMED211 |
Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | dataset |
Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 1995 |
End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 1996 |
Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | asNeeded |
Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | The dataset comprises physical, biogeochemical and biological measurements from the Southern Ocean. The data were collected in the Bransfield and Gerlache Straits and Bellingshausen Sea between 1995 and 1996. Hydrographic casts provided profiles of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, transmittance, chlorophyll and photosynthetically active radiation, while water samples were analysed for bacteria, zooplankton and a biogeochemical parameters such as nutrient concentrations. Sediment cores were also analysed for nutrients, while drifting traps provided sedimentation flux measurements and shipboard experiments yielded production data. The majority of measurements were collected during two consecutive cruises of the BIO Hesperides between early December 1995 and early February 1996. The hydrographic profiles were collected using a CTD and the data were stored as approximately 300 individual ASCII files per cruise, with data stored at 1dbar resolution. Several hundred discrete measurements (water samples and sediment cores) were collected in total. An array of moorings deployed for one year in the Western Bransfield Strait Basin provided sediment trap samples for biological and biogeochemical analysis. The FRUELA project was part of the Spanish contribution to the study of biogeochemical carbon fluxes in the Southern Ocean. Three major zones, with contrasting physico-chemical and biological characteristics were considered: Bellingshausen, including the Northwest Bellingshausen Sea and comprising the southern boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (SbyACC); Bransfield, including the Western Bransfield Strait and the northeastern part of the Gerlache Strait; and Gerlache, including the rest of the Gerlache Strait. The research involved a number of Spanish institutions and was coordinated by the University of Oviedo and the Institute of Marine Sciences (CSIC). The data are held by the British Oceanographic Data Centre. |
Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | Instrument(s) used to collect data: fluorometers; current meters; radiometers; nutrient analysers; discrete water samplers; sediment traps; dissolved gas sensors; unconsolidated sediment corers; shipboard incubators; titrators; spectrophotometers; liquid scintillation counters; transmissometers; CTD. |
Related keywords | ||
Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Dissolved organic carbon concentration in the water column |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zooplankton feeding | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Microzooplankton grazing | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zooplankton non taxonomy-related biomass expressed as carbon per unit volume of the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | New production in water bodies | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Silicate concentration parameters in the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Primary production in the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Sedimentation flux of carbon, nitrogen or organic matter in the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Salinity of the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bacteria non taxonomy-related biomass expressed as carbon per unit volume of the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zooplankton non taxonomy-related biomass expressed as nitrogen per unit volume of the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zooplankton taxonomy-related abundance per unit volume of the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Regenerated production in water bodies | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Microzooplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Microzooplankton taxonomy-related biomass expressed as carbon per unit volume of the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Transmittance and attenuance of the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Temperature of the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | unknown | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Species distribution | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Oceanographic geographical features | |
Geographical coverage | ||
North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -61 |
East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -58 |
South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -65 |
West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -67 |
Responsible organisations | ||
Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre | |
Individual name | Polly Hadžiabdic | |
Position name | Head of the BODC Requests Team | |
Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street | |
Postal code | L3 5DA | |
City | Liverpool | |
Administrative area | Merseyside | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
URL | http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre | |
Position name | Director | |
Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street | |
Postal code | L3 5DA | |
City | Liverpool | |
Administrative area | Merseyside | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
URL | http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | University of Oviedo, Biology of Organisms and Systems departament | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Phone | +34 985104774 | |
Fax | +34 985104777 | |
Delivery point | Campus del Cristo, Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas, Universidad de Oviedo, Catedratico Rodrigo Uria s/n | |
Postal code | 33071 | |
City | Oviedo | |
Country | Spain | |
URL | http://www.uniovi.es/bos | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | ICM-CSIC/ Institute of Marine Sciences | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Phone | +34 932 309500 | |
Fax | +34 932 309555 | |
Delivery point | Paseo Marítimo de la Barceloneta, 37-49 | |
Postal code | 08003 | |
City | Barcelona | |
Country | Spain | |
URL | http://www.icm.csic.es | |
Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre | |
Position name | Director | |
Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street | |
Postal code | L3 5DA | |
City | Liverpool | |
Administrative area | Merseyside | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
URL | http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
Dataset constraints | ||
20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | otherRestrictions | |
20 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | This states any limitations on access to the data and uses free text. | Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence |
21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence |
Version info | ||
Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2017-10-03 |
Date of last revision | The most recent date that the resource was revised. | 2010-09-27 |
Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2010-09-27 |
Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2024-04-14 |
Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2018-02-06 |
Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard |
Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | Version 2.3.8 |