Radium in Changing Environments: A Novel Tracer of Iron Fluxes at Ocean Margins (RaCE:TraX) project oceanographic dataset (2017-2022)
This dataset contains Radium (Ra) and Iron (Fe) concentrations along with supporting oceanographic measurements such as temperature and salinity of the water column. Data are from glacial melt waters around the West Antarctic Peninsula and Greenland as well as from the open southern ocean and at hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The data were collected for the Radium in Changing Environments: A Novel Tracer of Iron Fluxes at Ocean Margins (RaCE:TraX) project. The RaCE:TraX project is running between June 2017 and June 2022 and uses measurements of Radium (Ra) and Iron (Fe) along with knowledge of the half-life of Ra to predict supply and removal rates of Fe in the marine environment. The results hope to answer the questions 1) how much Fe comes from continental shelf sediments, 2) how much Fe is supplied by glacial meltwater, and 3) how rapidly is Fe scavenged from the metal-rich fluids at hydrothermal vents? Addressing these key gaps in the understanding of the marine Fe cycle will help determine how sensitive marine systems are to current Fe supply, as well as predict the impacts of changes in Fe supply on phytoplankton health, the biological pump, and global climate. The project is led by the University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science and is a collaboration with the University of Bristol. The project received funding from the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC, grant reference number: NE/P017630/1).
Simple
- Alternate title
- British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_RaCE-TraX
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-03-02
- Date (Creation)
- 2019-11-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2019-11-06
- Identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6958
Owner
University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science
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Unknown
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Unknown
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http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/
National Oceanography Centre, European Way
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Southampton
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Hampshire
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SO14 3ZH
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United Kingdom
+44 (0)23 8059 2011
http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/
Originator
University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science
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Unknown
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Unknown
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http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/
National Oceanography Centre, European Way
,
Southampton
,
Hampshire
,
SO14 3ZH
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)23 8059 2011
http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/
Custodian
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Director
Joseph Proudman Building
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6 Brownlow Street
,
Liverpool
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Merseyside
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L3 5DA
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United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Distributor
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Director
Joseph Proudman Building
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6 Brownlow Street
,
Liverpool
,
Merseyside
,
L3 5DA
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United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- Vertical Coverages
- SeaDataNet PDV
- MEDIN metadata record availability
- INSPIRE themes
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations apply
- Other constraints
- Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
- 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
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- Oceans
- Environment
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W
- Geographic identifier
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Southern Ocean
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-28
- Geographic identifier
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Arctic Ocean
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-28
- Geographic identifier
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Atlantic Ocean
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-28
- Begin date
- 2017-06-29
- End date
- 2022-03-02 After
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
- OGP
- Distribution format
- 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 scientists for ‘Radium in Changing Environments: A Novel Tracer of Iron Fluxes at Ocean Margins’ project, which ran from 2017 to 2022, 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.
- File identifier
- 774dc135d1115ea585983640136f0723 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2022-03-02T12:41:14
- Metadata standard name
- MEDIN
- Metadata standard version
- 3.1.1
Point of contact
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Polly Hadžiabdić
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Head of the BODC Requests Team
)
Joseph Proudman Building
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6 Brownlow Street
,
Liverpool
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Merseyside
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L3 5DA
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United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Overviews
Spatial extent
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