Metadata Report for BODC Series Reference Number 1728868

• 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

Problem Reports

No Problem Report Found in the Database

JC088 short-term (in-line) moored ADCP (sites LA, LB, SB, SC1 and SC2): Data Quality Report

The ADCP data have been through quality control screening and some flagging of data have been made. Due to the inherently noisy nature of ADCP data, only obvious spikes were looked at in closer detail and flagged if necessary.

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

RD Instruments 300kHz Workhorse Sentinel Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler

Specifications

The manufacturer's specification document can be found here

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:

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

Data Activity or Cruise Information

Data Activity

FASTNEt short term inline/single point mooring SC2

The short term mooring SC2 was deployed and recovered during cruise RRS James Cook JC088 as part of the Fluxes Across the Sloping Topography of the North East Atlantic (FASTNEt) project.

Instruments deployed on the mooring

Instrument codes

ADCP - RDI ADCP (U, V, W, Temperature and Pressure)

NIOZ_t - Thermistor on NIOZ chain (Temperature)

A/R - Acoustic Release

The depths are based on the original positions of the thermistors on the line, as it is believed the entanglement of the line and subsequent shift of some sensors occurred at recovery.

Related Data Activity activities are detailed in Appendix 1

Cruise

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:

SeaDataNet Quality Control Flags

The following single character qualifying flags may be associated with one or more individual parameters with a data cycle:

Appendix 1: JC088_SC2

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