3e4fcc390ac55204a1aae2ff1d405247 English dataset Polly Hadžiabdić British Oceanographic Data Centre Head of the 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 2026-03-13T17:36:11 MEDIN 3.1.2 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP RAPID: monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5 degrees N since 2004 (RAPIDMOC) project data set British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_rpdmoc_data 2025-02-11 publication 2024-05-21 creation 2024-07-26 revision EDMED7352 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ The RAPIDMOC dataset comprises of all data collected under the RAPID: monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5 degrees N since 2004 (RAPIDMOC) project. This includes moored temperature, conductivity and salinity, current velocity, and bottom pressure time series; conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) profiles with additional oxygen, transmittance and chlorophyll data; discrete samples from CTD niskin bottles analysed for salinity and oxygen; meteorogical, surface hydrographic, navigational and bathymetric data collected by the onboard ship systems and discrete samples; and shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data. Data have been predominately collected in the North Atlantic between latitudes of 23.7 degrees N and 28 degrees N in three sub-arrays at the Western Boundary (76.9 degrees W to 69.4 degrees W), Mid-Atlantic Ridge (52.1 degrees W to 40.9 degrees W) and Eastern Boundary (24.2 degrees W to 12.2 degrees W). Data recorded en route to the three sub-arrays, which includes ship-board data systems, some CTD profiles and discrete sample collections are also included in the dataset. A number of instrumented moorings, some of which are full depth, have been deployed in each sub-array. Data have been collected since February 2004. Data have been collected using a variety of instrumentation including conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensors, current meters, Bottom Pressure Recorders (BPR), Acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs), oxygen sensors, transmissometers, fluorometers, echo-sounders, thermosalinographs, anemometers, pyranometers, GPS systems, radiometers, barometers and humidity sensors. Data are collected to calculate and continuously monitor the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) and provide a long-term time series of the strength of the MOC. The RAPIDMOC dataset is collected by the National Oceanography Centre. Data are held at the British Oceanographic Data Centre. Unknown National Oceanography Centre (Southampton) Unknown University of Southampton Waterfront Campus European Way Southampton Hampshire SO14 3ZH United Kingdom enquiries@noc.ac.uk http://noc.ac.uk owner Unknown National Oceanography Centre (Southampton) Unknown University of Southampton Waterfront Campus European Way Southampton Hampshire SO14 3ZH United Kingdom enquiries@noc.ac.uk http://noc.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 Bathymetry and Elevation Date and time Air temperature Metadata parameters Sea level Raw current meter output parameters Raw light meter output Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere Horizontal spatial co-ordinates Reference numbers Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) Atmospheric humidity Platform or instrument orientation Wind strength and direction Horizontal platform movement Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column Solar Radiation Raw fluorometer output Moored instrument depth Air pressure Electrical conductivity of the water column Vertical velocity of the water column (currents) Acoustic backscatter in the water column Engineering parameters Raw suspended particulate material concentration sensor output Transmittance and attenuance of the water column Salinity of the water column Density of the water column Temperature of the water column Vertical spatial coordinates SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2023-12-12 revision unknown SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision Geographical grid systems Atmospheric conditions Oceanographic geographical features Hydrography Elevation Meteorological geographical features Energy resources Coordinate reference systems GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres data.gov.uk MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 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 elevation oceans climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere location biota -79.90 -1.30 17.40 50.90 SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision North Atlantic Ocean 2004-02-01 2026-03-13 Documents Network Common Data Form Ocean Data View Text or Plaintext https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/7352/ BODC online data delivery service 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 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/submit_data/what_do_we_do_with_your_data/data_processing_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: anemometers; wave recorders; sea level recorders; fluorometers; current profilers; radiometers; thermosalinographs; multi-beam echosounders; continuous water samplers; salinity sensor; platform attitude sensors; data loggers; salinometers; Global Navigation Satellite System receivers; NAVSTAR Global Positioning System receivers; Differential Global Positioning System receivers; inertial navigation systems; Kinematic Global Positioning System receivers; water pressure sensors; CTD; transmissometers; current meters; water temperature sensor; dissolved gas sensors; single-beam echosounders; meteorological packages.