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Metadata: Marine Scotland temperature and salinity profiles and mooring data, from waters around Scotland, 1989 to present
Abstract:
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.
Data holder:
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Other details | ||
Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 8704 |
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. | Marine Scotland temperature and salinity profiles and mooring data, from waters around Scotland, 1989 to present |
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 1048Marine_Scotland |
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. | 9995a3c8df5a5c5d925c02e7452318b3 |
Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | EDMED6351 |
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 | 1989-01-17 |
End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2021-12-20 |
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 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. |
Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | 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/informationtechnology/dataprocessing_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. |
Related keywords | ||
Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Elevation |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Oceanographic geographical features | |
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 | Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Density of the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Sea level | |
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 | Salinity of 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 | Electrical conductivity of the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column | |
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 | unknown | |
Geographical coverage | ||
North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 65.26 |
East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 8.8 |
South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.07 |
West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -18.13 |
Regional sea | North Atlantic Ocean | |
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 | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
Organisation name | Marine Scotland Science | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Phone | +44 (0)1224 876544 | |
Delivery point | Marine Laboratory, PO Box 101 | |
Postal code | AB11 9DB | |
City | Aberdeen | |
Administrative area | Aberdeenshire | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | Marine Scotland Science | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Phone | +44 (0)1224 876544 | |
Delivery point | Marine Laboratory, PO Box 101 | |
Postal code | AB11 9DB | |
City | Aberdeen | |
Administrative area | Aberdeenshire | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
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 | https://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 | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
Resource locators | ||
Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/6351/ |
Locator name | Name of the web resource | BODC online data delivery service |
Locator function | Code that describes the function of the resource. ISO function code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | order |
Dataset constraints | ||
20.1 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
20.2 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | No limitations apply | |
This states any limitations on access to the data. Multiple occurences are allowed here. One entry shall be from the INSPIRE Metadata registry and the other free text should be part of the resource `Have specific limitations`. | Data are freely available | |
21.1 Conditions for Access and Use - Use constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
21.2 Conditions for Access and Use - Other constraints | 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. | No conditions apply |
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. | 2018-09-25 |
Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2018-09-25 |
Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2024-04-21 |
Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2021-12-20 |
Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN |
Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 3.1.1 |