DOI: 10.14466/CefasDataHub.7

Description

This dataset has been extracted as part of an exercise to assemble "all" Cefas Temperature Data and publish it in a Data paper. It is one of 17 Cefas data sources assembled.

The mid and late 20th century saw extensive oceanographic research by DFS and Cefas. The resulting data were stored in an Oceanographic Archive which managed data from a number of sensor systems. These included a CTD system deployed for traditional oceanographic water column profiling. The CTD data have been transferred to the Cefas Data Hub as parameters. The original source files contain water column profile data on temperature, salinity, suspended load and fluoresence derived chlorophyll. This metadata record covers UK Continental Shelf and temperature only.

The CTD profile data in this archive were collected from Cefas (Or DFR) research cruises. They broadly cover the European Shelf with some data from the Iberian Abysal Plain. Data were collected using a lowered CTD rosette system deployed when the vessel is stationary. Water samples were routinely taken at particular depths for calibration purposes. On station, a profile from the surface to near the sea bed was undertaken. The down cast data provide the profile, with water bottle sample collection on the up cast. 1m binned data, from calibrated raw data.

The multiple sources are described in 17 separate metadata entries under the same Title, e.g. Seawater temperature records for the UK Shelf - 15 - RV Cefas Endeavour FerryBox Monitoring System. These data have been described in detail via the following publication. Morris, D. J., Pinnegar, J. K., Maxwell, D. L., Dye, S. R., Fernand, L. J., Flatman, S., Williams, O. J., and Rogers, S. I.: Over 10 million seawater temperature records for the United Kingdom Continental Shelf between 1880 and 2014 from 17 Cefas (United Kingdom government) marine data systems, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 27–51, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-27-2018, 2018.

Contributors

Morris, David / Andres, Olga / Ayers, Richard / Brown, Annie / Capuzzo, Elisa / Cooper, Keith / Dye, Stephen / Fernand, Liam / Flatman, Steve / Greenwood, Naomi / Haverson, David / Hull, Tom / Hyder, Kieran / Jennings, Simon / Jolliffe, Ross / Metcalfe, Julian / Meadows, Bill / Pearce, David / Pinnegar, John / Pitois, Sophie / Righton, David / Taylor, Natasha / Williams, Oliver / Wright, Serena

Subject

Temperature of the water column

Start Date

25/06/1982

End Date

04/07/2009

Year Published

2016

Version

1

Citation

Morris et al (2016). Cefas Oceanographic Archive. Cefas, UK. V1. doi: https://doi.org/10.14466/CefasDataHub.7

Rights List

Open Government Licence

DOI

10.14466/CefasDataHub.7