The oceanographic dataset collected during the Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage (COMICS) Project (2017-2020)

The COMICS (Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage) project consists of observations, at sea, of particle flux and stable isotopes. It applies organic geochemical and molecular biological techniques to samples collected using nets and traps. The study areas are the tropical Atlantic and Southern Oceans. The results will be combined with models to quantify the flow of carbon in the ocean’s ‘twilight’ zone in order to accurately model global climate change. This ‘twilight’ zone is the part of the ocean between 100m and 1000m below the sea surface, where only a small amount of light from the sun can still penetrate. By investigating carbon dynamics in the ocean interior, COMICS will help to improve predictions of future global climate change. The COMICS project is led by the National Oceanography Centre and is a collaboration between the British Antarctic Survey and the universities of Queen Mary London, Liverpool, Oxford and Southampton. The project received funding from the Natural Environmental Research Council and runs between 2017 and 2021.

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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048COMICS171018
Date (Publication)
2018-08-24
Date (Creation)
2019-01-30
Date (Revision)
2019-01-30
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6725
Originator
  University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science - Unknown ( Unknown )
National Oceanography Centre, European Way , Southampton , Hampshire , SO14 3ZH , United Kingdom
+44 (0)23 8059 2011
+44 (0)23 8059 3059
http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/
Originator
  University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences - Unknown ( Unknown )
Parks Road , Oxford , Oxfordshire , OX1 3PR , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1865 272000
+44 (0)1865 272072
http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk
Originator
  University of Liverpool Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences - Unknown ( Unknown )
Jane Herdman Building , Liverpool , Merseyside , L69 3GP , United Kingdom
+44 (0)151 794 5146
http://www.liv.ac.uk/earth-ocean-and-ecological-sciences/
Originator
  Queen Mary University of London School of Biological and Chemical Sciences - Unknown ( Unknown )
Mile End Road , London , London , E1 4NS , United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7882 3200
+44 (0)20 7882 7732
http://www.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk
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
Originator
  National Oceanography Centre, Southampton - Unknown ( Unknown )
University of Southampton , Waterfront Campus , European Way , Southampton , Hampshire , SO14 3ZH , United Kingdom
http://noc.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
MEDIN metadata record availability
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SeaDataNet PDV
INSPIRE themes
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Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence
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otherRestrictions Other restrictions
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Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans
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Geographic identifier
Laptev Sea

Date (Revision)
2018-02-21

Begin date
2017-01-01
End date
2019-08-05 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/
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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 https://www.bodc.ac.uk/submit_data/what_do_we_do_with_your_data/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; optical backscatter sensors; plankton recorders; plankton nets; pelagic trawl nets; continuous water samplers; salinity sensor; gill nets; in-situ incubators; salinometers; Volume measures; Coupled models; CTD; discrete water samplers; water body temperature sensor; current meters; dissolved gas sensors.
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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2019-08-05T06:31:26
Metadata standard name
MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
Metadata standard version
Version 2.3.8
Point of contact
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Polly Hadžiabdić ( 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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