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The dataset contains hydrographic and biogeochemical data, including continuous underway measurements of surface temperature, salinity, nutrients, chlorophyll and attenuance, irradiance and bathymetric depth. Underway dissolved oxygen and/or trace metal measurements were also collected on occasion. Hydrographic profiles of temperature, salinity, transmittance, fluorescence, dissolved oxygen (data often of poor quality) and scalar irradiance were undertaken, and associated water samples were routinely analysed for suspended particulate material (SPM), chlorophyll, nutrients and particulate organic carbon/particulate organic nitrogen (POC/PON). In addition, dissolved and particulate trace metals, production, contaminants, dissolved organic carbon/total dissolved nitrogen (DOC/TDN) were determined in some cases. Benthic measurements were also collected, including benthic flux determinations (microcosm experiments), sediment characterisation, pore water chemistry measurements and the quantification of the benthic macrofauna. The coastal oceanographic data set was collected along the east coast of England between Great Yarmouth and Berwick upon Tweed. Data were collected between December 1992 and July 1995 during a series of 17 RRS Challenger cruise legs. Most cruises covered two survey grids: one from Great Yarmouth to the Humber designed around the distribution of the sandbanks and a second simple zig-zag grid from the Humber to Berwick on Tweed. A large number of anchor stations, usually over one or two tidal cycles, were worked in the vicinity of the Humber mouth or the Holderness coast. Each cruise leg returned underway data and conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) data and water bottle rosette samples from grid nodes. A Lasentech in-situ particle sizer was used to obtain grain size distributions at spot depths for each CTD station on many of the cruise legs. Box and multicorer samples were collected on approximately one third of the cruise legs. The River-Atmosphere-Coast Study (RACS) was the component of the Land Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) programme looking at processes from the river catchment into the coastal sea. Investigators include representatives of Plymouth University, Southampton University, Liverpool University, University of East Anglia, Newcastle University, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and the University of Wales, Bangor. All data sets collected during the RACS Challenger cruises are held by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC). All underway and CTD data have been fully calibrated and quality controlled by BODC. The water sample and benthic data sets have been quality controlled by the data originators and submitted to BODC. The data are held in the BODC project database and have been published as part of a fully documented CD-ROM product.
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Other details | ||
Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 8886 |
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. | NERC Land Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) Rivers, Atmosphere and Coasts (RACS) data set - coastal oceanographic data (1992-1995) |
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 1048005 |
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. | d6672a39971d56039488f3667de7fe08 |
Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | EDMED150 |
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 | 1992 |
End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 1995 |
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 contains hydrographic and biogeochemical data, including continuous underway measurements of surface temperature, salinity, nutrients, chlorophyll and attenuance, irradiance and bathymetric depth. Underway dissolved oxygen and/or trace metal measurements were also collected on occasion. Hydrographic profiles of temperature, salinity, transmittance, fluorescence, dissolved oxygen (data often of poor quality) and scalar irradiance were undertaken, and associated water samples were routinely analysed for suspended particulate material (SPM), chlorophyll, nutrients and particulate organic carbon/particulate organic nitrogen (POC/PON). In addition, dissolved and particulate trace metals, production, contaminants, dissolved organic carbon/total dissolved nitrogen (DOC/TDN) were determined in some cases. Benthic measurements were also collected, including benthic flux determinations (microcosm experiments), sediment characterisation, pore water chemistry measurements and the quantification of the benthic macrofauna. The coastal oceanographic data set was collected along the east coast of England between Great Yarmouth and Berwick upon Tweed. Data were collected between December 1992 and July 1995 during a series of 17 RRS Challenger cruise legs. Most cruises covered two survey grids: one from Great Yarmouth to the Humber designed around the distribution of the sandbanks and a second simple zig-zag grid from the Humber to Berwick on Tweed. A large number of anchor stations, usually over one or two tidal cycles, were worked in the vicinity of the Humber mouth or the Holderness coast. Each cruise leg returned underway data and conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) data and water bottle rosette samples from grid nodes. A Lasentech in-situ particle sizer was used to obtain grain size distributions at spot depths for each CTD station on many of the cruise legs. Box and multicorer samples were collected on approximately one third of the cruise legs. The River-Atmosphere-Coast Study (RACS) was the component of the Land Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) programme looking at processes from the river catchment into the coastal sea. Investigators include representatives of Plymouth University, Southampton University, Liverpool University, University of East Anglia, Newcastle University, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and the University of Wales, Bangor. All data sets collected during the RACS Challenger cruises are held by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC). All underway and CTD data have been fully calibrated and quality controlled by BODC. The water sample and benthic data sets have been quality controlled by the data originators and submitted to BODC. The data are held in the BODC project database and have been published as part of a fully documented CD-ROM product. |
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/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: fluorometers; current meters; radiometers; optical backscatter sensors; thermosalinographs; nutrient analysers; atmospheric radiometers; particulates samplers; salinity sensor; redox potential sensors; unconsolidated sediment corers; gas chromatographs; autoanalysers; optical microscopes; titrators; inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometers; spectrophotometers; gamma-ray spectrometers; transmissometers; CTD; in-situ particle sizers; dissolved gas sensors; pH sensors; sediment settling tubes; shipboard incubators; in-situ incubators. |
Related keywords | ||
Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Suspended particulate material grain size parameters |
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 | Sediment grain size parameters | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Concentration of other organic contaminants in the water column | |
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 | Salinity of the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Dissolved concentration parameters for other gases 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 | Geological sample radioactivity | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Particulate metal concentrations in 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 | Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) | |
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 | Carbon concentrations in sediment | |
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 | Bathymetry and Elevation | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere | |
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 | Species distribution | |
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 | Atmospheric conditions | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Geology | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Hydrography | |
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 | Soil | |
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 | |
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 | Metal concentrations in sediment pore waters | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Nutrient fluxes between the bed and the water column | |
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 | Temperature of the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Nitrogen concentrations in sediment | |
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 | Nitrate concentration parameters in 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 | Dissolved total and organic nitrogen concentrations 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 | Radioactivity in water bodies | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Nutrient concentrations in sediment pore waters | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Dissolved trace metalloid and inorganic selenium concentrations in water bodies | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Uptake of other nutrients in the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Urea concentration parameters in the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Metal fluxes between the bed and the water column | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Phytoplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies | |
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 | Sediment water content, porosity and surface area | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Ammonium and ammonia concentration parameters in water bodies | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column | |
Geographical coverage | ||
North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 56 |
East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 2 |
South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 52 |
West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -1 |
Regional sea | North Sea | |
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 HadÅžiabdic | |
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 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/ | |
Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
Organisation name | University of Wales, School of Ocean Sciences | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Delivery point | School of Ocean Sciences,, University of Wales Bangor,, Menai Bridge,, Anglesey, | |
Postal code | LL59 5AB | |
City | Menai Bridge | |
Administrative area | Anglesey | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
URL | http://www.sos.bangor.ac.uk/ | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | University of Wales, School of Ocean Sciences | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Delivery point | School of Ocean Sciences,, University of Wales Bangor,, Menai Bridge,, Anglesey, | |
Postal code | LL59 5AB | |
City | Menai Bridge | |
Administrative area | Anglesey | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
URL | http://www.sos.bangor.ac.uk/ | |
Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
Organisation name | University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Department of Physics | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Postal code | NE1 7RU | |
City | Newcastle upon Tyne | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Department of Physics | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Postal code | NE1 7RU | |
City | Newcastle upon Tyne | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
Organisation name | University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Delivery point | University Plain | |
Postal code | NR4 7TJ | |
City | Norwich | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
URL | http://www.uea.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/ | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Delivery point | University Plain | |
Postal code | NR4 7TJ | |
City | Norwich | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
URL | http://www.uea.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/ | |
Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
Organisation name | University of Liverpool, Department of Oceanography | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Delivery point | Brownlow Hill | |
City | Liverpool | |
Administrative area | Merseyside | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | University of Liverpool, Department of Oceanography | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Delivery point | Brownlow Hill | |
City | Liverpool | |
Administrative area | Merseyside | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
Organisation name | University of Plymouth, Institute of Marine Studies | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Delivery point | Drake Circus | |
Postal code | PL4 8AA | |
City | Plymouth | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
URL | http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/plymouth/main.htm | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | University of Plymouth, Institute of Marine Studies | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Delivery point | Drake Circus | |
Postal code | PL4 8AA | |
City | Plymouth | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
URL | http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/plymouth/main.htm | |
Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
Organisation name | University of Southampton Department of Oceanography | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Delivery point | University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, European Way | |
Postal code | SO14 3ZH | |
City | Southampton | |
Administrative area | Hampshire | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | University of Southampton Department of Oceanography | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Delivery point | University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, European Way | |
Postal code | SO14 3ZH | |
City | Southampton | |
Administrative area | Hampshire | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
Organisation name | Plymouth Marine Laboratory | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Phone | +44 (0)1752 633 100 | |
Delivery point | Prospect Place, The Hoe | |
Postal code | PL1 3DH | |
City | Plymouth | |
Administrative area | England | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
URL | http://www.pml.ac.uk | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | Plymouth Marine Laboratory | |
Individual name | Unknown | |
Position name | Unknown | |
Phone | +44 (0)1752 633 100 | |
Delivery point | Prospect Place, The Hoe | |
Postal code | PL1 3DH | |
City | Plymouth | |
Administrative area | England | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
URL | http://www.pml.ac.uk | |
Resource locators | ||
Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/products/data/bodc_products/lois_racs/ |
Locator name | Name of the web resource | BODC data product |
Locator function | Code that describes the function of the resource. ISO function code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | order |
Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/150/ |
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 | Any restrictions imposed on accessing the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | otherRestrictions |
20.2 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata-codelist/LimitationsOnPublicAccess/NoLimitations | |
Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence | ||
21.1 Conditions for Access and Use - Use constraints | Any restrictions imposed on accessing the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | otherRestrictions |
21.2 Conditions for Access and Use - Other constraints | 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. | 2017-02-01 |
Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2010-09-16 |
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 |
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