ccc7e805a6f4594ba4dcf89f48d0dafe 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 2026-03-17T16:49:35 MEDIN 3.1.2 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP Coastal Sea Surface Temperature Data Set - England and Wales (1963-1990) British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048033 2017-10-03 publication 2010-09-23 creation 2026-03-17 revision EDMED565 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ This dataset comprises sea surface temperature measurements taken close to the time of high water at intervals of three to four days. The measuring programme consisted of approximately 50 observing sites around the shoreline of England and Wales and the data set spans the time period from 1963 to 1990. A few observing sites were already in existence when the network was established, for example observations at the Seven Stones and Varne Light Vessels go back as far as 1905. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory (MAFF), now known as the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) - part of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), set up a database for these data, supplemented by both the earlier data and also by data from non-MAFF sources. Data from 1963 until 1990 are held at the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC). The time series is ongoing but data later than 1990 are not stored at BODC, these data are available from CEFAS. Unknown Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory Unknown Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT United Kingdom inapplicable owner Unknown Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory Unknown Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT United Kingdom inapplicable 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 Temperature of the water column SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2023-12-12 revision Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 revision unknown SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision Oceanographic geographical features GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision otherRestrictions No limitations apply Data are freely available for teaching and research, providing due acknowledgment in any publication produced, following agreement to the terms and conditions of the British Oceanographic Data Centre Data Licence. The licence terms and conditions are available via https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/documents/nodb/267795/ otherRestrictions Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence English oceans -8.00 2.00 49.00 55.00 SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision North Sea SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision Irish Sea SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision Celtic Sea SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision English Channel 1963 1990 Publication year: 1981-01-01 Publication title: Ten years of measurement of coastal sea temperatures. Publication authors: Jones, S.R. Publication year: 1991-01-01 Publication title: Near Surface sea temperatures in coastal waters of the North Sea, English Channel and Irish Sea. Publication authors: Jones, S.R. and Jeffs, T.M. Publication editors: MAFF Fisheries Research Data Report No. 24 : 71 pages. Binary https://www.bodc.ac.uk/about/contact_us/contact_details/ Enquiries contact details BODC's address, telephone and fax numbers for general enquiries offlineAccess 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 and provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre for long term archive and management.Instrument(s) used to collect data: water body temperature sensor.