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  <dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Menai Strait turbidity and other co-variate surveillance</dc:title>
  <dc:type xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">dataset</dc:type>
  <dc:identifier xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php?tpc=007_NRW_DS87115</dc:identifier>
  <dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">The Menai Strait, separating the Isle of Anglesey from the north coast of Wales is part of the Menai Strait and Conwy Bay Special Area of Conservation. Monitoring of physical parameters in the strait, including water turbidity, has been carried out on a sporadic basis for the past 40 years. These parameters are of importance to the biological communities for which the Menai Strait and Conwy Bay has been designated and help to inform assessments of the condition of those communities and the effectiveness of management measures to conserve them. The observations of physical parameters in the strait have shown large, long-term fluctuations in turbidity. The aim of this project was to establish an automatic system for continuous monitoring of water turbidity, and other relevant physical parameters including temperature, salinity and meteorological variables.</dc:description>
  <dc:date xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">20060228</dc:date>
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