Metadata Report for BODC Series Reference Number 392985

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

Data Description

Data Category	Sea surface elevation -unspecified
Instrument Type	Tide gauge (unspecified)
Instrument Mounting	coastal structure
Originating Country	United Kingdom
Originator	-
Originating Organization	United Kingdom Hydrographic Office
Processing Status	banked
Online delivery of data	Download available - Ocean Data View (ODV) format
Project(s)	WOCE

Data Identifiers

Originator's Identifier	PST/305/1964
BODC Series Reference	392985

Time Co-ordinates(UT)

Start Time (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm)	1964-11-02 20:00
End Time (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm)	1964-12-31 23:00
Nominal Cycle Interval	3600.0 seconds

Spatial Co-ordinates

Latitude	51.70000 S ( 51° 42.0' S )
Longitude	57.86670 W ( 57° 52.0' W )
Positional Uncertainty	Greater than 10 n.miles
Minimum Sensor or Sampling Depth	-
Maximum Sensor or Sampling Depth	-
Minimum Sensor or Sampling Height	-
Maximum Sensor or Sampling Height	-
Sea Floor Depth	-
Sea Floor Depth Source	-
Sensor or Sampling Distribution	-
Sensor or Sampling Depth Datum	-
Sea Floor Depth Datum	-

Parameters

BODC CODE	Rank	Units	Title
AADYAA01	1	Days	Date (time from 00:00 01/01/1760 to 00:00 UT on day)
AAFDZZ01	1	Days	Time (time between 00:00 UT and timestamp)
ASLVZZ01	1	Metres	Surface elevation relative to unspecified datum of the water body

Definition of Rank
Rank 1 is a one-dimensional parameter Rank 2 is a two-dimensional parameter Rank 0 is a one-dimensional parameter describing the second dimension of a two-dimensional parameter (e.g. bin depths for moored ADCP data)

Problem Reports

No Problem Report Found in the Database

Data Access Policy

Public domain 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.

The recommended acknowledgment is

"This study uses data from the data source/organisation/programme, provided by the British Oceanographic Data Centre and funded by the funding body."

Narrative Documents

No Narrative Document information held in the BODC database

Project Information

World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)

The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) was a major international experiment which made measurements and undertook modelling studies of the deep oceans in order to provide a much improved understanding of the role of ocean circulation in changing and ameliorating the Earth's climate.

WOCE had two major goals:

Goal 1. To develop models to predict climate and to collect the data necessary to test them.
Goal 2. To determine the representativeness of the Goal 1 observations and to deduce cost effective means of determining long-term changes in ocean circulation.

Data Activity or Cruise Information

No Data Activity or Cruise Information held for the Series

Fixed Station Information

Station Name	Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
Category	Coastal location
Latitude	51° 42.00' S
Longitude	57° 52.00' W
Water depth below MSL

Port Stanley (Falkland Islands) Site History

History Summary

Station Name	Port Stanley, Falkland Is.
Country	UK
GLOSS No.	305
Contributor	(1964-1974) Hydrographic Department, MoD, Taunton, Somerset
Instrument type	(1964-1974) Float and stilling well gauge
Site of Gauge
Observational Period	1964 - 1974

Tide Gauge Benchmark (TGBM) Description

On NE corner of Public Works Department office, north wall, 2.5ft above ground.

Auxiliary Benchmarks

Cut in low stone wall at side of Ross Road West, 40 yds west of memorial.
Close to ground in foundations at N.W. corner of corrugated iron garage at junction of Reservoir Road and Allardyce Street.
An arrow cut on a flat rock approx. 27ft north of Sapper Hill Road at Valley Gate.

Benchmark Relationships

All heights have been referred to the station tide staff zero which is linked to fixed benchmarks.

Quality Assessment

Comment

Possible datum shift of approximately +50cm on 12^th November 1974

Year	Completeness Index (%)	Questionable Fluctuations (In day Nos.) and Missing Data (Gaps >6 hours)
1964	16	None
		Gap from 1964/11/07 at 13.00 to 1964/11/09 at 12.00
1965	100	None
1966	100	None
1967	58	None
1968	99	64-365 Possible timing error
		Gap from 1968/11/24 at 12.00 to 1968/11/27 at 11.00
1969	99	272-273
		Gap from 1969/09/28 at 08.00 to 1969/09/29 at 12.00
1974	15	None
		Gap from 1974/11/06 at 16.00 to 1974/11/12 at 20.00

Related Fixed Station activities are detailed in Appendix 1

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