Metadata Report for BODC Series Reference Number 1727877
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Problem Reports
No Problem Report Found in the Database
JC088 long-term (in-line) moored 75 kHz ADCP data (site LA): Data Quality Report
Data were found to be of good quality, however the data return for the shallowest depths were noisy. Obvious spikes and missing data were flagged within the series dataset.
Data Access Policy
Open Data supplied by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: "Contains data supplied by Natural Environment Research Council."
Narrative Documents
Teledyne RDI's Workhorse Long Ranger ADCP
The Workhorse Long-Ranger acoustic doppler current profiler (Teledyne RD Instruments) is a long-range and long-term self contained ADCP. It has a patented broadband signal (75 kHz) and a standard depth rating of 1500m. It operates effectively between temperatures of -5°C and 45°C and has a velocity accuracy of ±1% ±5mm/s.
The instrument comprises:
- An aluminium transducer head with four beams at 20o from the vertical in a convex configuration, temperature sensor, electronic assemblies, fluxgate compass, pitch and roll sensors
- 4 x 28 D-cell alkaline battery packs
- 40 MB PC card internal memory (upgradeable to 440 MB)
- 1500m depth rated 6061 aluminium pressure case. End cap with wet material connector and dummy plug
JC088 moored ADCPs (Sites LA short and long term, LB, SB, SC1 and SC2): Originator's data processing
Sampling Strategy
RRS James Cook cruise JC088 was the second of two cruises funded by the NERC 'Fluxes Across the Sloping Topography of the North East Atlantic (FASTNEt)' Consortium. JC088 was a 26 day cruise sailing on 28 June 2013 from King George V Dock, Govan to the Malin Shelf edge where inline/single point and bed frame moorings were deployed before returning to Southampton on 24 July 2013.
Data Processing
The Originator has supplied short term inline/single point ADCP mooring data for short term sites LA, LB, SB, SC1 and SC2 and long term site LA in Matlab structured format from two types of ADCP instruments.
Binary data from the ADCP RDI Workhorse instruments were exported into Matlab files using the WinADCP software (v1.14) and then converted into Matlab data structures.
The Matlab files were topped/tailed to only include data when the instrument was settled at its nominal depth.
No quality control have been applied to the files.
Field Calibrations
No field calibrations were undertaken.
References
Inall.M.E. et al. , (2013). RRS James Cook JC088, Glasgow to Southampton. FASTNEt Cruise to the Malin Shelf Edge. 28 th June to 24 th July 2013. A FASTNEt Cruise led by The Scottish Association for Marine Science.
JC088 moored ADCPs (Sites LA short and long term, LB, SB, SC1 and SC2): Processing by BODC
Data from 11 ADCP's arrived at BODC in Matlab structured files. Included were data from five short term inline/single point moorings and one long term mooring. The following table shows how the variables within the files were mapped to appropriate BODC parameter codes:
Originator's Variable | Units | Description | BODC Parameter Code | Units | Comment |
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U - Eastward velocity | m/s | Eastward current velocity (Eulerian) in the water body by moored acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) | LCEWAP01 | cm/s | Conversion from originators units to BODC units are applied during transfer. |
V - Northward velocity | m/s | Northward current velocity (Eulerian) in the water body by moored acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) | LCNSAP01 | cm/s | Conversion from originators units to BODC units are applied during transfer. |
W - Vertical velocity | m/s | Upward current velocity in the water body by moored acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) | LRZAAP01 | cm/s | Conversion from originators units to BODC units are applied during transfer. |
E - Error velocity | m/s | Current velocity error in the water body by moored acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) | LERRAP01 | cm/s | Conversion from originators units to BODC units are applied during transfer. |
echo - Echo Amplitude | arbitrary units | Signal return amplitude from the water body by moored acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) | ASAMAP01 | dB | - |
Pressure | dB | Pressure (measured variable) exerted by the water body by fixed in-situ pressure sensor and corrected to read zero at sea level | PRESPS01 | dB | Only applies to short term sites LA 75 kHz S/N 17194 and 14788, LB 75 kHz S/N 12893 and SB 300 kHz S/N 2666. |
Bin depth | m | Depth below sea surface (ADCP bin) | DBINAA01 | m | - |
The reformatted data were visualised using BODC's in-house visualisation software. Suspect data were marked by adding an appropriate quality control flag, missing data by both setting the data to an appropriate absent data value and setting the quality control flag.
Project Information
Fluxes Across Sloping Topography of the North East Atlantic (FASTNEt)
Background
The FASTNEt consortium was funded to deliver NERC's Ocean Shelf Edge Exchange Programme. Commencing in October 2011, this four year study aims to couple established observational techniques, such as moorings and CTDs, with the very latest in autonomous sampling initiatives - including use of Autosub Long Range and gliders. With the aid of novel model techniques, these observations will be utilised to construct a new paradigm of Ocean/Shelf exchange.
Shelf edge regions mark the gateway between the world's deep oceans and shallower coastal seas, linking terrestrial, atmospheric and oceanic carbon pools and influencing biogeochemical fluxes. Shelf edge processes can influence near-shore productivity (and fisheries) and ultimately affect global climate.
FASTNEt brings together researchers from multiple UK organisations. Further collaboration has been established with five Project Partners: the UK Met Office, Marine Scotland Science, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Marine Institute Ireland and Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Scientific Objectives
- To determine the seasonality of physical gradients and exchange across the shelf edge by deploying new observational technologies (gliders, Autosub Long Range) and established techniques (long term moorings, drifters)
- To quantify key exchange mechanisms and to collect new data targeted at testing and improving high resolution models of the shelf edge, by carrying out detailed process studies in contrasting regions of the shelf edge of the NE Atlantic margin
- To develop a new parameterisation of shelf edge exchange processes suitable for regional-scale models, using improved resolution numerical, and new empirical models constrained by the observations
- To test the new parameterisations in a regional model in the context of making an assessment of inter-annual variability of ocean-shelf exchange.
Fieldwork
Three survey sites on the UK shelf edge have been selected for FASTNEt. These are a) the Celtic Sea shelf edge, b) Malin shelf and c) North Scotland shelf. Fieldwork is centred around two research cruises. The first, to the Celtic Sea, on RRS Discovery in June 2012. The second cruise visits the Malin shelf on RRS James Cook, during summer 2013. In addition to these dedicated cruises, opportunist cruise activity to the North Scotland shelf has been agreed with project partner Marine Scotland Science. Autonomous technologies will complement observations made during the cruises and provide knowledge of seasonal and inter-annual variability in exchange processes.
Instrumentation
Types of instruments/measurements:
- Gliders
- Autosub Long Range
- Drifter buoys
- Scanfish
- Microstructure profilers
- Moored CTD/CT loggers and ADCPs
- Shipboard measurements: CTD, underway, nutrients (and other discrete sampling), LADCP, ADCP.
Contacts
Collaborator | Organisation |
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Prof. Mark Inall (lead) | Scottish Association for Marine Science, U.K |
Dr. Jason Holt | National Oceanography Centre, U.K |
Dr. Peter Miller | Plymouth Marine Laboratory, U.K |
Dr. Mattias Green | Bangor University, U.K |
Prof. Jonathan Sharples | University of Liverpool, U.K |
Dr. Vasyl Vlasenko | University of Plymouth, U.K |
Data Activity or Cruise Information
Data Activity
Start Date (yyyy-mm-dd) | 2013-07-17 |
End Date (yyyy-mm-dd) | 2013-10-07 |
Organization Undertaking Activity | Scottish Association for Marine Science |
Country of Organization | United Kingdom |
Originator's Data Activity Identifier | JC088_LA(long-term) |
Platform Category | subsurface mooring |
FASTNEt long term inline/single point mooring LA
The LA long term mooring was deployed during FASTNEt cruise JC088 as part of the Fluxes Across the Sloping Topography of the North East Atlantic (FASTNEt) project.
The mooring was trawled a few weeks after deployment resulting in many instrument losses. Only the top section has ever been recovered by a small boat in the Hebrides at the beginning of October 2013.
Instruments deployed on the mooring
Instrument codes
ADCP - RDI ADCP (U, V, W, Temperature and Pressure)
SBE37 SM and SBE37 SMP - SBE37 CTD ( Conductivity, Temperature and Pressure) MicroCAT
SM - Star-Oddi Starmon mini Temperature Recorder
SBE56 - SBE56 logger Temperature Recorder
ML - Vemco Minilogger Temperature Recorder
A/R - Acoustic Release
Nominal depth (m) | Instrument type | Instrument Serial number |
504.5 | Subsurf float (top) | - |
505 | ADCP 75KHz | 17194 |
509 | SBE37 SMP | 9114 |
510.5 | ADCP 75KHz | 14788 |
529 | *SM | 3904 |
549 | *ML | 350772 |
569 | *SM | 3576 |
589 | *ML | 350773 |
609 | *SM | 3888 |
629 | *ML | 350774 |
649 | *SM | 3892 |
669 | *SBE37 SM | 9111 |
689 | *ML | 350775 |
709 | *SM | 3577 |
729 | *ML | 350776 |
749 | *SM | 3906 |
769 | *ML | 350779 |
789 | *SM | 3585 |
809 | *ML | 350780 |
829 | *SBE37 SMP | 8442 |
839 | *SBE56 | 2320 |
849 | *SM | 3579 |
859 | *SBE56 | 2321 |
869 | *ML | 350781 |
879 | *SBE56 | 2322 |
889 | *SM | 3902 |
899 | *SBE56 | 2323 |
909 | *ML | 350782 |
919 | *SBE56 | 2324 |
929 | *SM | 3889 |
939 | *SBE56 | 2325 |
949 | *ML | 350783 |
959 | *SBE56 | 2326 |
969 | *SM | 3895 |
979 | *SBE56 | 2327 |
983 | *SBE37 SMP | 7700 |
989 | *SBE56 | 2328 |
995 | *A/R | 683 |
1007 | *anchor | - |
ADCP 75 kHz serial 14788 was found flooded and no data was recovered from this instrument.
* The following instruments broke off from the mooring and were subsequently lost.
Related Data Activity activities are detailed in Appendix 1
Cruise
Cruise Name | JC088 |
Departure Date | 2013-06-28 |
Arrival Date | 2013-07-24 |
Principal Scientist(s) | Mark E Inall (Scottish Association for Marine Science) |
Ship | RRS James Cook |
Complete Cruise Metadata Report is available here
Fixed Station Information
Fixed Station Information
Station Name | JC088_LA |
Category | Offshore location |
Latitude | 55° 25.61' N |
Longitude | 9° 59.33' W |
Water depth below MSL | 964.0 m |
FASTNEt JC088 LA Mooring Fixed Station
Site LA was occupied during the FASTNEt JC088 cruise.
Site LA was used to deploy one short term in-line/single point mooring and one long term in-line/single point mooring with a view to collect hydrographic data from a mixture of instruments including: ADCPs, SBE37 MicroCATs, Vemco Miniloggers and STAR-ODDI Starmon loggers.
Below are further details for this mooring site:
Year | Cruise | Nominal latitude (+ve N) | Nominal longitude (+ve E) | Nominal water Depth (m) |
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2013 | JC088 | 55.4269 | -9.9888 | 964 |
Related Fixed Station activities are detailed in Appendix 2
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 |
Appendix 1: JC088_LA(long-term)
Related series for this Data Activity are presented in the table below. Further information can be found by following the appropriate links.
If you are interested in these series, please be aware we offer a multiple file download service. Should your credentials be insufficient for automatic download, the service also offers a referral to our Enquiries Officer who may be able to negotiate access.
Series Identifier | Data Category | Start date/time | Start position | Cruise |
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1381752 | Hydrography time series at depth | 2013-07-17 18:00:01 | 55.4269 N, 9.9888 W | RRS James Cook JC088 |
Appendix 2: JC088_LA
Related series for this Fixed Station are presented in the table below. Further information can be found by following the appropriate links.
If you are interested in these series, please be aware we offer a multiple file download service. Should your credentials be insufficient for automatic download, the service also offers a referral to our Enquiries Officer who may be able to negotiate access.
Series Identifier | Data Category | Start date/time | Start position | Cruise |
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1381776 | Hydrography time series at depth | 2013-07-01 12:00:01 | 55.42965 N, 9.9893 W | RRS James Cook JC088 |
1381788 | Hydrography time series at depth | 2013-07-01 12:00:01 | 55.42965 N, 9.9893 W | RRS James Cook JC088 |
1381807 | Hydrography time series at depth | 2013-07-01 12:00:01 | 55.42965 N, 9.9893 W | RRS James Cook JC088 |
1381819 | Hydrography time series at depth | 2013-07-01 12:00:01 | 55.42965 N, 9.9893 W | RRS James Cook JC088 |
1381752 | Hydrography time series at depth | 2013-07-17 18:00:01 | 55.4269 N, 9.9888 W | RRS James Cook JC088 |