CEFAS73a6f865-60c6-470f-a2df-b2ff623600fc 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 2025-09-18T12:45:29 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2022-01-07 revision WGS 84 Seawater temperature records for the UK Shelf - 11 - Cefas Lowestoft Sample Data Management System 2016-06-27 publication 2025-09-18 revision 2015-02-03 creation CEFAS3259 https://data.cefas.co.uk This dataset has been extracted as part of an exercise to assemble "all" Cefas Temperature Data and publish it in a Data paper. It is one of 17 Cefas data sources assembled. The Lowestoft Sample Data Management System (LSDM) was the tool used for tracking the ingestion, processing and analysis of marine water, sediment and radiological samples. It was replaced by the Cefas Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) in 2015. This dataset is an extract from the LSDM for seawater temperature data (other data are in LIMS and the Cefas Data Hub). The Laboratory Sample Data Management system (LSDM) was the primary system used by Cefas (Lowestoft) before and throughout the 1990s (initially known as the Liquid Sample Data Management system). Its function was to provide a vehicle for the management of the ingestion, analysis and recording of measurements on marine samples, ranging from oceanographic water samples through sediments to “environmental materials” and radiological samples (see Sutton (1993) for an example of the supporting role of LSDM in relation to the, usually high level, scientific measurement systems of the day, Sauer et al (2002) for an example of its pivotal role in quality assured processes and analyses. As the work profile for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Directorate of Fisheries Research changed, followed by the creation of Cefas and then Defra, the need for the centralised system for the management of an extensive suite of physical samples decreased. LSDM was closed down in 2015 with chemical data transferred to other systems. The temperature data held included the historical ferry routes and historical CTN data. The remainder, from a variety of programmes and cruises, are presented in this section. 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 Oceanographic geographical features 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 `Open Government Licence`_ .. _`open government licence`: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ English oceans -50.00 20.00 40.00 70.00 1960-01-04 2009-01-12 Delimited Geographic Information System Unknown https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/3259 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 Oceanographic geographical features – 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 This system hosted results from analyses of samples taken on a variety of cruises. The data provided is an extract from the database. Below are references to individual cruises and cruise reports. Additional metadata for these cruises are available on the Cefas Data Hub with links to cruise specific datasets (with additional parameters beyond temperature). Methodological documentation is available from: `The analysis of environmental materials using gamma spectrometry`_. The wide range of samples and the extended time period of operation means there is an extensive body of supporting information. The multiple sources are described in 17 separate metadata entries under the same Title, e.g. Seawater temperature records for the UK Shelf - 15 - RV Cefas Endeavour FerryBox Monitoring System. These data have been described in detail via the following publication. Morris, D. J., Pinnegar, J. K., Maxwell, D. L., Dye, S. R., Fernand, L. J., Flatman, S., Williams, O. J., and Rogers, S. I.: Over 10 million seawater temperature records for the United Kingdom Continental Shelf between 1880 and 2014 from 17 Cefas (United Kingdom government) marine data systems, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 27–51, `https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-27-2018`_, 2018. .. _`the analysis of environmental materials using gamma spectrometry`: https://www.cefas.co.uk/publications/aquatic/aepam10.pdf .. _`https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-27-2018`: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-27-2018 MEDIN 3.1.1