Metadata Report for BODC Series Reference Number 1905036

• 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

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

Turner Designs 10AU Field Fluorometer

The Turner Designs 10AU is designed for continuous-flow monitoring or discrete sample analyses of fluorescent species. A variety of optical kits with appropriate filters and lamps are available for a wide range of applications. Individual filters and lamps are also available for customised applications.

Standard optical kits include those for chlorophyll-a (extracted and/or in vivo), phycocyanin, phycoerythrin, CDOM, ammonium, rhodamine and fluorescein dye tracing, crude oil, refined oil, histamine and optical brighteners.

The instrument's light source is a 4 watt lamp and the detector is a photomultiplier tube with a standard detection range of 300-650 nm. A red-sensitive version with a detetion range of 185-970 nm is also available.

Specifications

Further details can be found in the manufacturer's specification sheet.

Ashtech G12 Global Positioning System Receiver

The Ashtech G12 Global Positioning System (GPS) uses all-in-view tracking and 12 channels to provide real time three-dimensional positional measurements. It is Differential GPS (DGPS) ready, offering an accuracy of better than 40 cm, position latency better than 50 ms, and exact position latency to millisecond accuracy.

Specifications

Further details can be found in the manufacturer's specification sheet.

Ashtech GG24 receiver

The GG24 is an all-in-view Global Positioning System (GPS) and Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) receiver that blends GPS and GLONASS into a single position solution. This receiver uses all available satellites from both systems to obtain the best position information.

The three-dimensional position and velocity are calculated when tracking any combination of five satellites. Up to five independent measurements are determined every second, with no interpolation or extrapolation from previous solutions.

Specifications

Further details can be found in the manufacturer's specification sheet.

Ashtech Global Positioning System receivers (ADU series)

The ADU series of Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers are designed to give real-time three-dimensional position and attitude measurements. Attitude determination is based on differential carrier phase measurements between four antennas connected to a receiver, providing heading, pitch and roll, along with three-dimensional position and velocity.

The ADU2 model receives information from 48 channels, while the upgraded model (ADU5) uses 56 channels. The ADU5 also features a unique Kalman filter with user selectable dynamic modes to match operating conditions. It also incorporates signals from Satellite Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) and features an embedded 2-channel 300 kHz beacon receiver for easy differential GPS (DGPS) operations.

Specifications

Further details can be found in the manufacturer's specification sheets for the ADU2 andADU5.

Kongsberg Seatex Seapath 200 GPS and Gyrocompass

The Seapath 200 is a highly accurate, real-time heading, attitude and position information system that integrates the best signal characteristics of Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) and Global Positioning System (GPS), using a differential GPS method to acquire this data.

The high-rate motion data is obtained from the Seatex MRU5 inertial sensor and two fixed baseline GPS carrier-phase receivers. The raw data is integrated in a Kalman filter in the Seapath Processing Unit. The IMU contains an accurate linear accelerometer and Bosch Coriolis force angular rate gyros (CFG).

This system is equipped to utilise up to six different DGPS reference stations, it checks for consistency within measurements from the different sensors to ensure reliability and rejects noisy data or reports its inaccuracy. The data is available through various output protocols, RS-232, RS-422 and Ethernet.

This instrument is no longer in production; the main characteristics are presented below, and the specification sheet can be accessed here Kongsberg Seatex Seapath 200 .

Specifications

DISCOVERY 2010 RRS James Clark Ross Cruise JR20090310 (JR200, JR200A, JR208) Underway Surface Hydrography Instrumentation Document

The sea surface hydrographical suite of sensors was fed by the pumped-seawater, non-toxic supply. The seawater intake was located approximately 7 m below the sea surface. The SBE 48 sea surface temperature sensor was located towards the hull near the seawater intake. All other sensors were located in the clean seawater laboratory on the main deck, directly above the intake pipe.

Litre Meter flow meter

A flow meter used to monitor water flow rates for pumped systems such as ships' continuous seawater supplies.

Sea-Bird SBE 48 Hull Temperature Sensor

The SBE 48 is a high-accuracy temperature recorder with non-volatile memory, designed for shipboard determination of sea surface temperature. Mounted with magnets just below the water line, the SBE 48's temperature sensor is in contact with the inside of the ship's hull. The SBE 48's internal battery runs the real-time clock and can be used to power the instrument for very short deployments; external power is recommended for typical deployments.

Data are recorded in memory and can also be output in real-time in engineering units. Memory capacity exceeds 4.7 million samples of temperature and time; this yields approximately 54 days of data when sampling every 1 sec.

Specifications

Further details can be found in the manufacturer's specification sheet.

SeaBird MicroTSG Thermosalinograph SBE 45

The SBE45 MicroTSG is an externally powered instrument designed for shipboard measurement of temperature and conductivity of pumped near-surface water samples. The instrument can also compute salinity and sound velocity internally.

The MicroTSG comprises a platinum-electrode glass conductivity cell and a stable, pressure-protected thermistor temperature sensor. It also contains an RS-232 port for appending the output of a remote temperature sensor, allowing for direct measurement of sea surface temperature.

The instrument can operate in Polled, Autonomous and Serial Line Sync sampling modes:

• Polled sampling: the instrument takes one sample on command
• Autonomous sampling: the instrument samples at preprogrammed intervals and does not enter quiescence (sleep) state between samples
• Serial Line Sync: a pulse on the serial line causes the instrument to wake up, sample and re-enter quiescent state automatically

Specifications

Further details can be found in the manufacturer's specification sheet.

DISCOVERY 2010 RRS James Clark Ross Cruise JR20090310 (JR200, JR200A, JR208) Underway Surface Hydrography Processing Procedures Document

Originator's Data Processing

Fully processed data from the navigation and oceanlogger systems were received at BODC.

The merged data had a 1 minute resolution with a start date on 10 March 2009 00:00 hours and end date on 17 April 2009 23:59 hours. The originator's merged file contained 14 channels, their variables and units are: time (seconds), time_jday (days), sst (°c90), psal (pss-78), fluor (µg l^-1), par (µmol m^-2 s^-1), latitude (degrees), longitude (degrees), conductivity (S m^-1), salintemp (degc90), fluortemp (degc90), flowrate (l min^-1), sim500_depth (m).

This document addressed the procedures applied to surface hydrogaphy data.

The thermosalinograph and fluorometer were connected to the ship's non-toxic seawater supply and collected surface hydrographic data that were merged into one single file with data from the navigation stream. The data were fully processed and calibration procedures were performed on board by comparison of measured salinity and conductivity values with samples collected at 6 m depth from the CTD casts.

During processing, the originator mentioned that surface temperatures had previously been observed to be ~ 0.3°C too low. Several attempts to fix this issue were made in previous cruises and it was found during JR20090310 that the mean offset was 0.0028°C, the temperature points were scattered between 0.181 — 0.121°C and the standard deviation was 0.04°C.

The originator found a drift throughout the cruise for the oceanlogger salinities being 0.025 — 0.07 too fresh , when compared to the CTD samples at 6 m depth. An offset was applied to the data set during the calibration stages to account for this drift.

Files delivered to BODC

BODC Data Processing

The file mentioned above was selected for data banking as it contains the best version of processed surface hydrography data. Data were banked at BODC following standard data banking procedures, including reduction through averaging, checking surface hydrography channels for improbable values and screening the data for anomalous values. The originator's variables were mapped to appropriate BODC parameter codes as follows:

JR200_alldataCal_1min

Calibration

The data were fully processed and calibrated by the originator, no details of the calibrations are available. BODC did not apply any calibration procedures to this dataset.

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

Complete Cruise Metadata Report is available here

Fixed Station Information

No Fixed Station Information held for the Series

BODC Quality Control Flags

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SeaDataNet Quality Control Flags

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