244dfb8e75395b41acc0e5460d636499 English dataset Polly Hadziabdic British Oceanographic Data Centre Head of BODC Requests Team Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ pointOfContact 2026-03-12T16:14:21 MEDIN 3.1.2 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP BIOPOLE glider deployments in the Southern Ocean between 2023 and 2025 British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_biopole_gliders 2025-02-11 publication 2023-10-17 creation 2026-03-12 revision EDMED7316 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ This BIOPOLE dataset comprises of ocean glider data collected from April 2022 until March 2025 in the Southern Ocean, funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC). This dataset aims to understand how nutrients in polar waters drive the global carbon cycle and primary productivity. The glider deployments are collecting pressure, temperature, conductivity, salinity, optical backscatter and chlorophyll data. Near-real time, recovery (i.e., the data from the glider SD card when the glider is recovered) and quality controlled delayed mode versions of the data are available. As well as flying in open water, the gliders are also sampling under ice to provide data from areas that typically cannot be reached by traditional ships. The organisations contributing to the dataset are the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) under NERC Grant Reference NE/W004933/1. The data are archived at the British Oceanography Data Centre (BODC). Unknown British Oceanographic Data Centre Unknown Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ owner Unknown British Oceanographic Data Centre Unknown Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ originator British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ custodian British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ distributor asNeeded Salinity of the water column Electrical conductivity of the water column Metadata parameters Optical backscatter Horizontal spatial co-ordinates Vertical spatial coordinates Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies Temperature of the water column Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2023-12-12 revision data.gov.uk Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 revision Oceanographic geographical features Elevation Geographical grid systems Atmospheric conditions Coordinate reference systems GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision unknown SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision otherRestrictions No limitations apply Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence otherRestrictions Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence English biota oceans elevation location -180.00 180.00 -77.2654 -60.00 SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision Southern Ocean 2023-04-01 2025-03-31 Binary Network Common Data Form https://platforms.bodc.ac.uk/deployment-catalogue/BIOPOLE/ Glider deployment data for BIOPOLE National Oceanographic Database data delivery service; pre-filtered for the data collection. order dataset COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication BODC protocols are based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model enabling BODC to iterate towards compliance with the on-going evolution and development of community requirements including FAIR (Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,Reusable), TRUST (Transparency, Responsibility, User community, Sustainability, Technology) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics). Data managers quality assure submissions and assemble the metadata necessary for curation. Submissions (as received) are placed in a long-term accession and stored in triplicate across multiple sites. Appropriate data are transferred into a standard internal format with source variable names mapped to controlled vocabularies, documentation assembled, and metadata loaded into BODC databases. Access to these data is through direct request, the BODC website and through partner repositories such as SeaDataNet. Access control is attained by assigning a data policy to each set of data and this policy is used to administer access when data are requested. Discovery metadata is aligned with EU INSPIRE (through MEDIN) and SeaDataNet community standards. Data are converted to open community formats including Ocean Data View ASCII and SeaDataNet NetCDF, with data described using terms from the NERC vocabulary server. BODC submission agreements are documented on the BODC website and customer service is assured with a dedicated requests team that serve data following local regulations including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004. true This dataset was created by scientists for the NERC project titled BIOPOLE, grant reference number: NC-SM2, NE/W004933/1. The data were then submitted to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) in raw formats for ingestion into the Oceanids Command and control (C2) data system hosted by BODC. During ingestion BODC undertake documentation and metadata enhancement procedures appropriate to the type of data. Ocean glider data will be converted to the standard NetCDF format agreed by the OceanGlider community.