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Metadata: The oceanographic dataset collected during the Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage (COMICS) Project (2017-2022)
Abstract:
The COMICS (Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage) project consists of observations, at sea, of particle flux and stable isotopes. It applies organic geochemical and molecular biological techniques to samples collected using nets and traps. The study areas are the tropical Atlantic and Southern Oceans. The results will be combined with models to quantify the flow of carbon in the ocean’s ‘twilight’ zone in order to accurately model global climate change. This ‘twilight’ zone is the part of the ocean between 100m and 1000m below the sea surface, where only a small amount of light from the sun can still penetrate. By investigating carbon dynamics in the ocean interior, COMICS will help to improve predictions of future global climate change. The COMICS project is led by the National Oceanography Centre and is a collaboration between the British Antarctic Survey and the universities of Queen Mary London, Liverpool, Oxford and Southampton. The project received funding from the Natural Environmental Research Council and runs between 2017 and 2022.
Data holder:
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 8489 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | The oceanographic dataset collected during the Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage (COMICS) Project (2017-2022) |
| Alternative title | The purpose of alternative title is to record any additional names by which the dataset may be known. | British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048COMICS171018 |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | f8a4cf29aa9f5cd0b06ad894f4e06b49 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | EDMED6725 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | dataset |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2017-01-01 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2022-04-02 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | asNeeded |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | The COMICS (Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage) project consists of observations, at sea, of particle flux and stable isotopes. It applies organic geochemical and molecular biological techniques to samples collected using nets and traps. The study areas are the tropical Atlantic and Southern Oceans. The results will be combined with models to quantify the flow of carbon in the ocean’s ‘twilight’ zone in order to accurately model global climate change. This ‘twilight’ zone is the part of the ocean between 100m and 1000m below the sea surface, where only a small amount of light from the sun can still penetrate. By investigating carbon dynamics in the ocean interior, COMICS will help to improve predictions of future global climate change. The COMICS project is led by the National Oceanography Centre and is a collaboration between the British Antarctic Survey and the universities of Queen Mary London, Liverpool, Oxford and Southampton. The project received funding from the Natural Environmental Research Council and runs between 2017 and 2022. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | This dataset was created by the organisations with the "originator" role in this metadata record following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for ingestion into one of the schemas of the National Oceanographic Database (NODB). During ingestion BODC undertake quality control, documentation and metadata enhancement procedures appropriate to the type of data. For an overview please see https://www.bodc.ac.uk/submitdata/whatdowedowithyourdata/dataprocessing_steps/. BODC supply full information about data collection, data processing and data quality with all data requests to enable users to assess data suitability themselves. Instrument(s) used to collect data: fluorometers; optical backscatter sensors; plankton recorders; plankton nets; pelagic trawl nets; continuous water samplers; salinity sensor; in-situ incubators; salinometers; Volume measures; Coupled models; CTD; discrete water samplers; water body temperature sensor; current meters; dissolved gas sensors; gill nets. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zooplankton defecation rates in the water column |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Carbon concentrations in suspended particulate material | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zooplankton feeding | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Dissolved organic carbon uptake and production in the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Primary production in the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zooplankton growth rates | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Dissolved organic carbon concentration in the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | unknown | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Species distribution | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Oceanographic geographical features | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -10 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 15 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -60 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -45 |
| Regional sea | Southern Ocean | |
| South Atlantic Ocean | ||
| Southeast Atlantic Ocean (20W) | ||
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre | |
| Individual name | Polly Hadžiabdic | |
| Position name | Head of the BODC Requests Team | |
| Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street | |
| Postal code | L3 5DA | |
| City | Liverpool | |
| Administrative area | Merseyside | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@bodc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)23 8059 2011 | |
| Delivery point | National Oceanography Centre, European Way | |
| Postal code | SO14 3ZH | |
| City | Southampton | |
| Administrative area | Hampshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| soes@noc.soton.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)23 8059 2011 | |
| Delivery point | National Oceanography Centre, European Way | |
| Postal code | SO14 3ZH | |
| City | Southampton | |
| Administrative area | Hampshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| soes@noc.soton.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)1865 272000 | |
| Delivery point | Parks Road | |
| Postal code | OX1 3PR | |
| City | Oxford | |
| Administrative area | Oxfordshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@earth.ox.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)1865 272000 | |
| Delivery point | Parks Road | |
| Postal code | OX1 3PR | |
| City | Oxford | |
| Administrative area | Oxfordshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@earth.ox.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | University of Liverpool Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)151 794 5146 | |
| Delivery point | Jane Herdman Building | |
| Postal code | L69 3GP | |
| City | Liverpool | |
| Administrative area | Merseyside | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| soesnorth@liverpool.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/earth-ocean-and-ecological-sciences/ | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | University of Liverpool Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)151 794 5146 | |
| Delivery point | Jane Herdman Building | |
| Postal code | L69 3GP | |
| City | Liverpool | |
| Administrative area | Merseyside | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| soesnorth@liverpool.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/earth-ocean-and-ecological-sciences/ | |
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | Queen Mary University of London School of Biological and Chemical Sciences | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)20 7882 3200 | |
| Delivery point | Mile End Road | |
| Postal code | E1 4NS | |
| City | London | |
| Administrative area | London | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| sbcs@qmul.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Queen Mary University of London School of Biological and Chemical Sciences | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)20 7882 3200 | |
| Delivery point | Mile End Road | |
| Postal code | E1 4NS | |
| City | London | |
| Administrative area | London | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| sbcs@qmul.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk | |
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | British Antarctic Survey | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Delivery point | High Cross, Madingley Road | |
| Postal code | CB3 OET | |
| City | Cambridge | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| PDCServiceDesk@bas.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/uk-pdc/ | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | British Antarctic Survey | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Delivery point | High Cross, Madingley Road | |
| Postal code | CB3 OET | |
| City | Cambridge | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| PDCServiceDesk@bas.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/uk-pdc/ | |
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | National Oceanography Centre (Southampton) | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Delivery point | University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way | |
| Postal code | SO14 3ZH | |
| City | Southampton | |
| Administrative area | Hampshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@noc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://noc.ac.uk | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | National Oceanography Centre (Southampton) | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Delivery point | University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way | |
| Postal code | SO14 3ZH | |
| City | Southampton | |
| Administrative area | Hampshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@noc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://noc.ac.uk | |
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre | |
| Position name | Director | |
| Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street | |
| Postal code | L3 5DA | |
| City | Liverpool | |
| Administrative area | Merseyside | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@bodc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre | |
| Position name | Director | |
| Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street | |
| Postal code | L3 5DA | |
| City | Liverpool | |
| Administrative area | Merseyside | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@bodc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20.1 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 20.2 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | No limitations apply | |
| This states any limitations on access to the data. Multiple occurences are allowed here. One entry shall be from the INSPIRE Metadata registry and the other free text should be part of the resource `Have specific limitations`. | Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence | |
| 21.1 Conditions for Access and Use - Use constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 21.2 Conditions for Access and Use - Other constraints | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence |
| Available data formats | ||
| Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Delimited |
| Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Network Common Data Form | |
| Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Ocean Data View | |
| Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Text or Plaintext | |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2018-08-24 |
| Date of last revision | The most recent date that the resource was revised. | 2021-03-22 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2021-03-22 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-19 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2022-03-02 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 3.1.1 |