Metadata Report for BODC Series Reference Number 1988002
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 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
Clean pumped sea water supply
The system comprises a precision echosounder (PES) fish attached to a clean, reinforced tube (typically composed of braided polyvinyl chloride (PVC)). The fish is designed to be towed alongside a moving ship at a depth of one to three metres and water is drawn through the system by a clean pump. The tube usually leads to a clean laboratory on board the vessel, inside which samples are drawn for analysis. The system is typically used for continuous, underway, clean sampling (e.g., trace metal studies) of near surface waters.
Dissolved aluminium concentrations in seawater for UK SOLAS Cruise D326
Originator's Protocol for Data Acquisition and Analysis
Samples for dissolved aluminium profiles were drawn from Niskin bottles mounted on the titanium-frame CTD. Underway samples were taken from 3 m depth, alongside the ship, using a trace metal clean fish. CTD bottles and the underway supply were directly sub-sampled into 250ml low density polyethylene (LDPE) sample bottles. These samples were then filtered through 25mm PTFE syringe filters (pore size 0.2µm) into 125ml LDPE bottles, in a laminar flow cabinet, and acidified with ultra pure HCl. All LDPE sample bottles were washed using the protocol detailed by Achterberg et al, 2001.
Dissolved aluminium was determined using the fluorimetric lumogallion method (Hydes and Liss, 1976). Aliquots of 5 ml were decanted from the acidified sample, and ammonium acetate buffer added to reach pH 5. Lumogallion was added to complex the aluminium, and the sample was left for 24 hours. Brij-25 detergent was added prior to analysis by spectrofluorometry. An AMENCO fluorescence spectrometer was used, with a blue mercury vapour lamp. An excitation wavelength of approximately 485nm and emission wavelength of approximately 576 nm were found using a blue and yellow filter. All samples were analysed in duplicate.
References Cited
Achterberg E.A., Holland T.W., Bowie A.R., Mantoura R.F.C., Worsfold P.J., 2001. Determination of iron in seawater. Analytical Chimica Acta, 442, 1-14.
Hydes D.J., Liss P.S., 1976. Fluorometric method for the determination of low concentrations of dissolved aluminium in natural waters. Analyst, 101, 922-931.
BODC Data Processing Procedures
Data received were loaded into the BODC database using established BODC data banking procedures. A parameter mapping table is provided below:
| Originator's Parameter | Unit | Description | BODC Parameter Code | BODC Unit | Comments |
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| Al (nM) average | nM | Concentration of aluminium (<0.2um phase) per unit volume of the water column | ALXXLGD4 | nmol L-1 | n/a |
| standard error | nM | Concentration standard error of aluminium (<0.2 um phase) per unit volume of the water column | ALSELGD5 | nmol L-1 | n/a |
Project Information
UK Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study
The UK Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (UK SOLAS) is the UK's contribution to the international SOLAS programme.
UK SOLAS formed interdisciplinary teams to address three primary aims
- To determine the mechanisms controlling rates of chemical transfer and improve estimates of chemical exchanges
- To evaluate the impact of these exchanges on the biogeochemistry of the surface ocean and lower atmosphere and on feedbacks between the ocean and atmosphere
- To quantify the impacts of these boundary layer processes on the global climate system
UK SOLAS started in 2003, to run for seven years. The programme was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council.
Funded projects
In total, 19 projects have been funded by UK SOLAS, over four funding rounds.
| Project Title | Short Title | Principal Investigator |
|---|---|---|
| Impact of atmospheric dust derived material and nutrient inputs on near-surface plankton microbiota in the tropical North Atlantic | Dust | Eric Achterberg |
| The role and effects of photoprotective compounds in marine plankton | - | Steve Archer |
| Field observations of sea spray, gas fluxes and whitecaps | SEASAW | Ian Brooks |
| Factors influencing the biogeochemistry of iodine in the marine environment | - | Lucy Carpenter |
| Global model of aerosol processes - effects of aerosol in the marine atmospheric boundary layer | GLOMAP | Ken Carslaw |
| Ecological controls on fluxes of dimethyl sulphide (DMS) to the atmosphere | - | David Green |
| Dust outflow and deposition to the ocean | DODO | Ellie Highwood |
| Investigation of near surface production of iodocarbons - rates and exchanges | INSPIRE | Gill Malin |
| Reactive halogens in the marine boundary layer | RHaMBLe | Gordon McFiggans |
| The role of bacterioneuston in determining trace gas exchange rates | - | Colin Murrell |
| Measuring methanol in sea water and investigating its sources and sinks in the marine environment | - | Phil Nightingale |
| The impact of coastal upwellings on air-sea exchange of climatically important gases | ICON | Carol Robinson |
| The Deep Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment | DOGEE | Rob Upstill-Goddard |
| High wind air-sea exchanges | HiWASE | Margaret Yelland |
| Aerosol characterisation and modelling in the marine environment | ACMME | James Allan |
| 3D simulation of dimethyl sulphide (DMS) in the north east Atlantic | - | Icarus Allen |
| Processes affecting the chemistry and bioavailability of dust borne iron | - | Michael Krom |
| The chemical structure of the lowermost atmosphere | - | Alastair Lewis |
| Factors influencing the oxidative chemistry of the marine boundary layer | - | Paul Monks |
UK SOLAS has also supported ten tied studentships, and two CASE studentships.
Fieldwork
UK SOLAS fieldwork has included eight dedicated research cruises in the North Atlantic Ocean. Continuous measurements were made aboard aboard the Norwegian weather ship, Polarfront, until her decommission in 2009. Time series have been established at the SOLAS Cape Verde Observatory, and at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory L4 station. Experiments have taken place at the Bergen mesocosm facility.
A series of collaborative aircraft campaigns have added complementary atmospheric data. These campaigns were funded by UK SOLAS, African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA-UK), Dust and Biomass Experiment (DABEX) and the Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM).
Weblink: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/solas/
Data Activity or Cruise Information
Cruise
| Cruise Name | D326 |
| Departure Date | 2008-01-05 |
| Arrival Date | 2008-02-05 |
| Principal Scientist(s) | Eric Pieter Achterberg (University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science) |
| Ship | RRS Discovery |
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
