b4fd5d76e43557a5835dc9a078860e9f 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 2026-03-12T13:43:32 MEDIN 3.1.1 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP Mechanisms Responsible for Mesoscale Eddy Energy Dissipation (MeRMEED) Offshore of Great Abaco, Bahamas from 2015-2019. British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048-NE-N001745-1 2022-02-18 publication 2026-03-12 creation 2026-03-12 revision EDMED7080 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ The MeRMEED project aimed to determine and quantify how the interaction between mesoscale eddies and the steep slope along ocean western boundaries affects the dissispation of mesoscale eddies in these regions. The project comprised of a multi-platfrom programme involving ship-based and mooring-based obverations, including autonomous gliders, vertical microstructure profilers, CTDs and ADCPs. The MeRMEED project was run between 2015-2019, and focussed on the slope offshore of Great Abaco, Bahamas. The data contained in this dataset includes the data associated with three MeRMEED research expeditions aboard the R/V Walton Smith from 2016-12-01 to 2018-03-16. The data includes vertical microstructure profiler (VMP) measurements of the turbulent dissipation rate and temperature variance, profiles of temperature and conductivity from a CTD sensor attached to the VMP, and along-track meridional and zonal velocity profiles from a vessel mounted 75 kHz ADCP. Also included are two 75 KHz ADCPs mounted on the existing RAPID/MOCHA Western Boundary 1 mooring. The project was run by Eleanor Frajka-Williams (project PI) and Dafydd Gwyn Evans (post-doc) and funded by NERC Discovery Science grant NE/N001745/1. 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 Unknown University of Southampton Unknown +44 (0)23 8059 5000 University Road Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom inapplicable http://www.southampton.ac.uk owner Unknown University of Southampton Unknown +44 (0)23 8059 5000 University Road Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom inapplicable http://www.southampton.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 Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) Turbulence in the water column Temperature of the water column Salinity of the water column Moored instrument depth Electrical conductivity of the water column SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2023-12-12 revision Oceanographic geographical features GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 revision unknown SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision otherRestrictions No limitations apply Data are freely available otherRestrictions No conditions apply English oceans -77.60 -76.38 26.45 26.60 SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision North Atlantic Ocean 2015-09-01 2020-02-28 Binary Delimited Network Common Data Form Text or Plaintext https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/b465b7f1-6cb0-73f8-e053-6c86abc0914f/ Published dataset - doi:10.5285/b465b7f1-6cb0-73f8-e053-6c86abc0914f Frajka-Williams E., Evans D.G. (2020). Mooring-based ADCP full ocean velocity data mounted on the RAPID/MOCHA mooring WB1 offshore of Great Abaco, Bahamas, in 1400 m water depth from November 2015-March 2017. British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi: 10/fjpx download https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/b465b7f1-6cb1-73f8-e053-6c86abc0914f/ Published dataset - doi:10.5285/b465b7f1-6cb1-73f8-e053-6c86abc0914f Frajka-Williams E., Evans D.G. (2020). Vertical microstructure profiler, CTD and vessel-mounted ADCP data for WS16336-MeRMEED-1, a 7 day research expedition along the slope offshore of Great Abaco, Bahamas in December 2016. British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi: 10/fjp7 download https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/b465b7f1-6cb2-73f8-e053-6c86abc0914f/ Published dataset - doi:10.5285/b465b7f1-6cb2-73f8-e053-6c86abc0914f Frajka-Williams E., Evans D.G. (2020). Vertical microstructure profiler, CTD and vessel-mounted ADCP data for WS17305-MeRMEED-2, an 11 day research expedition along the slope offshore of Great Abaco, Bahamas in October-November 2017. British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi: 10/fjqh download https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/b465b7f1-6cb3-73f8-e053-6c86abc0914f/ Published dataset - doi:10.5285/b465b7f1-6cb3-73f8-e053-6c86abc0914f Frajka-Williams E., Evans D.G. (2020). Vertical microstructure profiler, CTD and vessel-mounted ADCP data for WS18066-MeRMEED-3, an 8 day research expedition along the slope offshore of Great Abaco, Bahamas in March 2018. 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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 Discovery Science project titled ‘Mechanisms Responsible for Mesoscale Eddy Energy Dissipation (MeRMEED)’ with grant reference NE/N001745/1 following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for long-term archive and data publication in the BODC Published Data Library as well as ingestion into the BODC NODB.Instrument(s) used to collect data: CTD.