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Title: Biomass data set documentation by the British Antarctic Survey from 01 November 1980 to 30 April 1985 (NODC Accession 9400053)
Abstract: The purpose of this document is to explain the structure and contents of the BIOMASS data set is sufficient detail to allow the required data to be located and its format understood. The document is a detailed description of how the data set is organized and a summary of what data are present. It does not attempt to supply extensive detail about these data, but rather gives sufficient information to enable relevant data to be located along with any supporting documentation required.
Date received: 19940505
Start date: 19801101
End date: 19850430
Seanames: Indian Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean
West boundary: -66.52
East boundary: 93.012
North boundary: -59.99
South boundary: -69.023
Observation types: biological, meteorological, physical, profile, tows - plankton tows
Instrument types: bottle, CTD, net, net - zooplankton net, photograph, visual observation, XSV
Datatypes: AIR PRESSURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, AMMONIA (NH3), ANIMALS - GROUP - BEHAVIOR, ANIMALS - GROUP - NUMBER IN GROUP, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - AGE, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - BEHAVIOR, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - CAUSE OF DEATH, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - COUNTS, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - DIVE TIMES, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - MARKS OR TAGS, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - MASS, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - RELATIVE POSITION, BIRDS, CARBON - DISSOLVED ORGANIC, CARBON - TOTAL ORGANIC, CHLOROPHYLL A, CONDUCTIVITY, DEPTH - OBSERVATION, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, FISH CENSUS, FISH SPECIES, HYDROCARBONS - TOTAL RESOLVED, ICE - CHARACTERISTICS, ICE - COVERAGE, ICE - TYPE, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - LENGTH, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - WEIGHT, NITRATE, NITRITE, PCB, pH, PHAEOPIGMENTS, PHOSPHATE - INORGANIC, PHOSPHORUS - TOTAL, PRESSURE - WATER, SALINITY, silicate, SOLAR RADIATION - ATMOSPHERIC, SOUND VELOCITY, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION, SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER, TEMPERATURE, TEMPERATURE - WATER, TIDE HEIGHT, TIDE STAGE, total alkalinity, TOTAL CARBON, turbidity, WATER DENSITY, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE PERIOD, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED, ZOOPLANKTON ABUNDANCE, ZOOPLANKTON SPECIES IDENTITIES, ZOOPLANKTON SPECIES NUMBER PER SAMPLE
Submitter: Thorley, Mark
Submitting institution: National Environment Research Council; Institute of Oceanographic Sciences
Collecting institutions: National Environment Research Council; Institute of Oceanographic Sciences
Contributing projects: UNKNOWN - DO NOT USE
Platforms: AFRICANA I (91AE), AGUALHAS (PAA2), BRANSFIELD (74RD), CAPITAN ALCAZAR (20CA), DAINI SYONAN MU (4911), ITZUMI (20IT), JOHN BISCOE (74JB), KAIYO-MARU (49K6), KYO-MARU NO 1 (49Y1), MARION DUFRESNE (35MF), Melville (318M), NELLA DAN (09ND), ODISSEY (905J), Polarstern (06AQ), PROFESSOR SIEDLECKI (67SL), SING YANG YONG (76YY), TOSHI MARU (49TS), UMITAKA-MARU (49UT), WALTHER HERWIG (06HW), YOSHU MARU (49UV)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database
maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The
design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content
Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM).

Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information
accurately represents all available information from the legacy database
at the time that this description was created. However, proper
attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or
collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact
mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this
uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the
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Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL; INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCES
PI: Thorley, Mark
Address:
address: BROOK ROAD
city: WORMLEY GODALMING
state: SURREY
postal: GU8 5, UB, GBN
country: GREAT BRITIAN
Availability date: 19940505
Metadata version: 3
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2008-03-12 19:15:29+00