Metadata Report for BODC Series Reference Number 751382
Metadata Summary
Problem Reports
Data Access Policy
Narrative Documents
Project Information
Data Activity or Cruise Information
Fixed Station Information
BODC Quality Flags
SeaDataNet Quality Flags
Metadata Summary
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Problem Reports
No Problem Report Found in the Database
Data Quality Report
Cycles 257 to 611 were flagged as suspect.
Data Access Policy
Open Data
These data have no specific confidentiality restrictions for users. However, users must acknowledge data sources as it is not ethical to publish data without proper attribution. Any publication or other output resulting from usage of the data should include an acknowledgment.
If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement, or if you are using Information from several Information Providers and multiple attributions are not practical in your product or application, you may consider using the following:
"Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0."
Narrative Documents
Instrument description
Lockheed Martin Sippican T-5 XBT Probe
The Expendable Bathythermograph system uses a sea water ground. As soon as an electrode within the nose of the expendable probe makes contact with the water, the circuit is complete and temperature or sound velocity data can be telemetered to the ship-board data processing equipment. The T-5 XBT Probe can be used within a maximum depth of 1830 m, with a rated ship speed of 6 knots and has a vertical resolution of 65 cm.
Manufacturer specifications can be found here
BODC processing document for XBT data
BODC Processing
The files were sent to BODC in .EDF format, which can be opened with a text editor. No processing was carried out at BODC.
The files were converted to BODC internal format (QXF) using BODC established procedures. There was no need to apply unit conversions as the originator's units were equivalent to the units stored on BODC's vocabulary dictionary.
The following table shows how the variables within the originator's files were mapped to appropriate BODC parameter codes:
Originator's Parameter Name | Units | Description | BODC Parameter Code | Units |
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Depth | m | Depth below surface of the water body by computation from probe free-fall time using unspecified algorithm | DEPHCV01 | m |
Temperature | °C | Temperature of the water body by expendable bathythermograph (XBT) | TEMPET01 | °C |
Sound Velocity | m s-1 | Sound velocity in the water body by computation from temperature and salinity by unspecified algorithm | SVELCV01 | m s-1 |
Reformatted XBT data were visualised using the in-house graphical editor EDSERPLO. Quality control flags were applied to data as necessary.
Originator's processing document for JR20071227 (JR177, JR205, JR207) XBT data
The data arrived at BODC in 56 ASCII format files representing the casts taken during JR20071227. These were reformatted to the internal QXF format using established BODc procedures. The following table shows how the variables within the ASCII files were mapped to appropriate BODC parameter codes:
Originator's Variable | Units | Description | BODC Parameter Code | Units |
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Depth | m | Depth below surface of the water body by computation from probe free-fall time using unspecified algorithm | DEPHCV01 | m |
Sound Velocity | m s-1 | Sound velocity in the water body by computation from temperature and salinity by unspecified | SVELCV01 | m s-1 |
Temperature | °C | Temperature of the water body by expendable bathythermograph (XBT) | TEMPET01 | °C |
The reformatted data were visualised using the in-house EDSERPLO software. Suspect data were marked by adding an appropriate quality control flag, missing data by both setting the data to an appropriate value and setting the quality control flag.
Instrument Description
XBT Unit and Auxiliary Sensors
Probe Type | T-5 |
Terminal Depth | 1830 m |
Depth Equation | Standard |
Depth Coeff. 1 | 0.0 |
Depth Coeff. 2 | 6.828 |
Depth Coeff. 3 | -0.00182 |
Depth Coeff. 4 | 0.0 |
Pressure Pt Correction | 100.0% |
Project Information
DISCOVERY 2010
DISCOVERY 2010 will investigate and describe the response of an ocean ecosystem to climate variability, climate change and commercial exploitation. The programme builds on past studies by BAS on the detailed nature of the South Georgia marine ecosystem and its links with the large-scale physical and biological behaviour of the Southern Ocean.
The aim is to identify, quantify and model key interactions and processes on scales that range from microscopic life forms to higher predators (penguins, albatrosses, seals and whales), and from the local to the circumpolar.
Objectives
Assess the links between the status of local marine food webs and variability and change in the Southern Ocean. Develop a linked set of ecosystem models applying relevant marine physics and biology over scales from the local to that of the entire Southern Ocean.
Relevance to Global Science
Ocean ecosystems play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity, in depositing carbon into the deep ocean, and as a source of protein for humans. However, fishing and climate change are having significant and often detrimental effects. To predict the future state of ocean ecosystems we must develop computer models capable of simulating biological and physical processes on a range of scales from the local to an entire ocean. Developing such predictive models is crucial to the sustainable management of world fisheries and requires integrated analyses of the way whole ecosystems work. DISCOVERY 2010 aims to take this work forward and at the same time help manage the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands maritime zone. We will do this through providing information on the state of the ecosystem to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), the international body that manages sustainable fishing in the Southern Ocean.
Delivering the Results
DISCOVERY 2010 will undertake an integrated programme of shipboard and land-based field studies of the marine food web, combined with modelling. We will pay particular attention to critical phases in the life cycles of key species, and to examining interactive effects in food webs. Interacting biological and physical processes will be modelled across a range of spatial scales to significantly improve our representation of the ocean ecosystem, upon which sustainable management and the prediction of future climate change can be based. DISCOVERY 2010 will link to BIOFLAME, ACES, and COMPLEXITY, two international programmes, and to a collaborative programme with the University of East Anglia on the role of the Southern Ocean in the global carbon cycle.
Component Projects
- DISCOVERY-OEM: Ocean Ecosystems and Management
- DISCOVERY-FOOD-WEBS: Scotia Sea FOOD-WEBS
- DISCOVERY-FLEXICON: FLEXIbility and CONstraints in life histories
- DISCOVERY-CEMI: Circumpolar Ecosystems; Modelling and Integration
Data Activity or Cruise Information
Cruise
Cruise Name | JR20071230 ( JR177, JR205, JR207) |
Departure Date | 2007-12-30 |
Arrival Date | 2008-02-16 |
Principal Scientist(s) | Geraint Tarling (British Antarctic Survey) |
Ship | RRS James Clark Ross |
Complete Cruise Metadata Report is available here
Fixed Station Information
No Fixed Station Information held for the Series
BODC Quality Control Flags
The following single character qualifying flags may be associated with one or more individual parameters with a data cycle:
Flag | Description |
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Blank | Unqualified |
< | Below detection limit |
> | In excess of quoted value |
A | Taxonomic flag for affinis (aff.) |
B | Beginning of CTD Down/Up Cast |
C | Taxonomic flag for confer (cf.) |
D | Thermometric depth |
E | End of CTD Down/Up Cast |
G | Non-taxonomic biological characteristic uncertainty |
H | Extrapolated value |
I | Taxonomic flag for single species (sp.) |
K | Improbable value - unknown quality control source |
L | Improbable value - originator's quality control |
M | Improbable value - BODC quality control |
N | Null value |
O | Improbable value - user quality control |
P | Trace/calm |
Q | Indeterminate |
R | Replacement value |
S | Estimated value |
T | Interpolated value |
U | Uncalibrated |
W | Control value |
X | Excessive difference |
SeaDataNet Quality Control Flags
The following single character qualifying flags may be associated with one or more individual parameters with a data cycle:
Flag | Description |
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0 | no quality control |
1 | good value |
2 | probably good value |
3 | probably bad value |
4 | bad value |
5 | changed value |
6 | value below detection |
7 | value in excess |
8 | interpolated value |
9 | missing value |
A | value phenomenon uncertain |
B | nominal value |
Q | value below limit of quantification |