Identification

Title

1976 - 1976 Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas) Physical and chemical properties of seawater for the North Sea, in each month of 1976

Abstract

Series of 12 cruises carried out by Cefas in 1976 on board RV Corella and RV Clione, resampling a grid of fixed stations every month throughout 1976. Data provided: date; station number; time; position (latitude and longitude); depth; tide direction; wind speed and direction. Environmental variables measured include: temperature (surface and bottom), saliny, transparency (%), nutrient concentrations (nitrite, nitrate, phosphate, silicate); chlorophyll-a (total and nano); phaeophytin (total and nano). These data have been converted into digital format (excel files); however there is more data collected during the same survey (e.g. fish stomach content; fish larvae counts; phytoplankton counts) that has not been converted and is still in paper format (paper records are kept by Steve Milligan, Plankton Lab).

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.cefas.co.uk/#/View/405/

function: order

Unique resource identifier

code

CEFAS53eec225-08ba-44bd-af6e-2bfa25541c41

codeSpace

http://www.cefas.co.uk/

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

OGP

code identifying the spatial reference system

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2011-03-25

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-2.5

East bounding longitude

2.5

North bounding latitude

56.25

South bounding latitude

52

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2010-05-18

code identifying the extent

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1976-01-01

End position

1976-11-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

1987

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

The prime purpose of the survey was to sample plankton. The sampling grid was limited to the English sector of the North Sea. Information on the cruises and methods for data collection can be found in the Fishery Research Technical Report N. 86 "Plankton surveys off the north-east coast of England in 1976: an introductory report and summary of the results", by Harding and Nichols (1987). A scientific paper has been published using the data and can be found via <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">...</span> .

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Contact the Cefas Data Manager for more information

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Contact the Cefas Data Manager for more information

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Data Manager

organisation name

Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science

full postal address

Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory

Pakefield Road

Lowestoft

NR33 0HT

UK

telephone number

+44 (0)1502 562244

email address

data.manager@cefas.co.uk

responsible party role

originator

Responsible party

contact position

Data Manager

organisation name

Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science

full postal address

Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory

Pakefield Road

Lowestoft

NR33 0HT

UK

telephone number

+44 (0)1502 562244

email address

data.manager@cefas.co.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Data Manager

organisation name

Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science

full postal address

Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory

Pakefield Road

Lowestoft

NR33 0HT

UK

telephone number

+44 (0)1502 562244

email address

data.manager@cefas.co.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2019-12-18T11:36:37

Metadata language