UK National Databank of conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) or salinity-temperature-depth (STD) profiles (1969-)

The databank comprises more than 50,000 profiles of conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) or salinity-temperature-depth (STD) profiles collected during 100s of research cruises by UK laboratories, since 1969. The majority of profiles were collected in the North East Atlantic but data are available from elsewhere including for example the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic and the Southern Ocean. Many profiles have been measured in shelf seas (often around the UK) but some are deep ocean profiles which may contain data to a depth of 5000m. Data are normally supplied to the British Oceanographic Data Centre as time or depth averages resulting in vertical resolutions between 0.5 dbar and 10 dbar, with casts collected in shallow water typically having a higher vertical resolution.

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Alternate title
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048015
Date (Publication)
2017-10-03
Date (Creation)
2010-09-16
Date (Revision)
2017-01-30
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED159
Originator
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Unknown ( Unknown )
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Custodian
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Director
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded As needed
SeaDataNet PDV
Vertical Coverages
MEDIN metadata record availability
INSPIRE themes
Use limitation
Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Geographic identifier
Laptev Sea

Date (Revision)
2015-02-19

Begin date
1968
End date
2018-02-06 After
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
Distributor
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Director
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
OnLine resource
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dataset Dataset
Statement

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; radiometers; optical backscatter sensors; dissolved gas sensors; pH sensors; sound velocity sensors; transmissometers; CTD.
File identifier
7aa61c4356405601ada65fdd7e2e91a6 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2018-02-06T15:16:38
Metadata standard name
MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
Metadata standard version
Version 2.3.8
Point of contact
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Polly Hadžiabdic ( Head of the BODC Requests Team )
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
 
 

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