CEFAS695dd5f5-ffa1-4283-9aac-a53b5be5ccca English dataset Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk pointOfContact 2025-03-04T01:47:54 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2022-01-07 revision WGS 84 Coastal Temperature Network Data 1892 to 2018 2019-04-05 publication 2025-03-04 revision 2018-11-27 creation CEFAS19490 https://data.cefas.co.uk Monthly average coastal seawater temperature readings taken from a variety of sources around the UK coast from 1892 to 2018. This collection programme was discontinued in 2018. Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk originator Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk custodian Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk distributor Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) data.manager@cefas.co.uk owner notPlanned Temperature of the water column SeaDataNet P02 parameter discovery vocabulary 2011-03-25 revision Water column temperature and salinity SeaDataNet P03 parameter discovery vocabulary 2011-03-25 revision Habitats and biotopes GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Water column SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2010-05-18 revision Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 publication data.gov.uk MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 publication otherRestrictions noLimitations otherRestrictions **Publicly available data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (`https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)`_ – Please note the applicable attribution statement is as follows: ‘includes Crown copyright, Cefas [2019]'** .. _`https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)`: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ English environment 1.73881 1.74086 52.4581 52.4595 1892-01-01 2018-12-31 Delimited Geographic Information System Unknown https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/19490 Cefas Data Portal download The Cefas Data Portal contains metadata records and data sets available to download and connect to in support of our commitment to open science. Data is available in the following formats: CSV, ESRI Shapefile. The data can also be accessed via the WFS and WMS protocols. dataset INSPIRE Data Specification on Habitats and Biotopes – Technical Guidelines 2013-12-10 publication false See the referenced specification 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 true See the referenced specification The Coastal Temperature Network consisted of Cefas (and predecessor) originated data and data from external suppliers, who agreed their data could be published as part of the network. Samples were taken from piers and breakwaters 50-200m from the shore where possible. The network covered the temperature condition of coastal waters around the coast of England and Wales. Sample collectors included individuals on behalf of Cefas, councils, companies and other organisations. Cefas observers recorded coastal sea surface temperature using calibrated thermometers approximately 6 – 14 times per month, usually close to the time of high water. Other organisations recorded sea surface temperature ranging from daily values to monthly means and the final data are published as monthly means by site. The Cefas instruments are calibrated at Lowestoft to an accuracy of ±0.1°C. The accuracy of other instruments is not known, but is thought to be at least to an accuracy of ±0.2°C. Quality assurance checks were applied to the data for each station by comparing the current dataset with either a 5 or 10 year running mean for each month. The data were first tested to see whether they are normally distributed. The standard deviation was calculated to see how tightly the data are clustered around the mean; three standard deviations are then calculated to account for 99% of the data. If the data were outside this range (3 std dev) then the value was flagged and removed from subsequent analysis. Inevitably, there have been changes in the number and location of monitoring stations over such a long period. In addition, operating sites are moved and data recording upgraded, e.g. Eastbourne from a manual coastal site (see Joyce, 2006) to, in 2013, an electronic logging system mounted on an offshore buoy. These changes are reflected in the positions associated with the extracted data. MEDIN 3.1.1