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Autosub3 data collected for Ocean under ice: Ocean circulation and melting beneath the ice shelves of the south-eastern Amundsen Sea - iSTAR B (February 2014)

This dataset contains Autosub3 measurements (position, ice draft, sea bed depth, water temperature, salinity, depth and pressure) collected under the frame of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Ice Sheet Stability Programme. The data were collected in the Amundsen Sea region of the Antarctic, more specifically in the Pine Island Glacier, during a series of missions from RRS James Clark Ross in February 2014. Radar measurements provided information about the bottom of the glacier, which then allowed for the definition of Autosub3 tracks for the different missions. Autosub3 was equipped with a CTD, oxygen sensor, transmissometer, GPS and ADCP. The Autosub missions were conducted as part of the ‘Ocean under ice: Ocean circulation and melting beneath the ice shelves of the south-eastern Amundsen Sea (iSTAR B)’ Project. This was one of four projects delivering the NERC Ice Sheet Stability Programme, aiming to better understand the physical processes governing the rate of ice melt in the West Antarctic ice sheet. The principal investigator for iSTAR B was Dr Adrian Jenkins from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

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Alternate title
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_iSTAR B_Autosub3
Date (Publication)
2018-02-06
Date (Creation)
2017-06-08
Date (Revision)
2017-06-08
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6622
Originator
  British Antarctic Survey - Unknown ( Unknown )
High Cross , Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 OET , United Kingdom
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/our_organisation/eid/pdc/index.php
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
  • Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
  • Snow and ice mass, thickness and extent
  • Temperature of the water column
  • Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
  • Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
  • Vertical spatial coordinates
Vertical Coverages
  • unknown
MEDIN metadata record availability
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
INSPIRE themes
  • Geographical grid systems
  • Coordinate reference systems
  • Land cover
  • Oceanographic geographical features
  • Elevation
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
  • Oceans
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Location
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Geographic identifier
Laptev Sea

Date (Revision)
2018-02-21

Begin date
2014-02-10
End date
2014-02-22
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
Dataset Web Site
Hierarchy level
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: radar altimeters; ice thickness profilers; water pressure sensors; water temperature sensor.

File identifier
f247f13b1dc75e4897339a98c2e53971 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2018-05-22T14:23:55
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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