Details of Fortune Bay (NL, Canada) oceanographic observations May 2015 - May 2017
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| Title of dataset | Fortune Bay (NL, Canada) oceanographic observations May 2015 - May 2017 |
| Narrative summary of dataset | A comprehensive set of oceanographic data were collected in Fortune Bay, a broad, mid-latitude fjord located on the south coast of Newfoundland (Canada). The dataset was gathered in partnership with IFREMER who collected data around the adjacent French archipelago of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. The dataset consists of data from taut-line moorings, land-based stations (a tide gauge and a couple of weather stations) and CTD profiles performed during mooring maintenances (~every 6 months). Parameters covered by the moorings include water column temperature (thermistor chain), salinity (2 points/depths per mooring), dissolved oxygen (on a limited number of moorings, within the surface layer) as well as current profiles (ADCP). Land-based stations monitored water level and temperature (tide gauge) and wind speed and direction, atmospheric pressure, air temperature and solar radiation (weather station). CTD profiles include dissolved oxygen for the most part. The program lasted two full years from May 2015 to May 2017 and sampling interval varied from 1-60 min depending on the instrument. Important Note: This submission has been initially submitted to SEA scieNtific Open data Edition (SEANOE) publication service and received the recorded DOI. The metadata elements have been further processed (refined) in EMODnet Ingestion Service in order to conform with the Data Submission Service specifications. |
| Summary of processing methodology | To provide some added value, the ADCP backscatter datawere processed to convert the raw returned signal strengthindicator (RSSI,Ein equation below), a measure of acousticpressure received by the transducers, to a corrected backscat-ter volume Sv, proportional to the amount (i.e. volume) ofparticles present in the water column. The method used to dothe correction is an updated version of the popular Deinesmethod (Deines, 1999) published by Mullison (2017). Transducer temperature measured at trans-ducer head and the salinity value selected during instrumentsetup (ES command; 32 in our deployments) were used tocalculate the water absorption (a) along the range (fromtransducer)R, thereby implying homogeneous water condi-tions. The transmit pulse lengthLDBMwas calculated usingbin size (1–3 m) and beam angle (20?) values. Default valuesof constantCand transmit powerPDBWprovided by Mulli-son (2017) were used |
| Start date | 2015-05-01 |
| End date | 2017-05-16 |
Responsible organisations
| Country | France |
| Organisation name | Ifremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea |
| Role of organisation | Dataset Holding Organisation |
| Country | France |
| Organisation name | SEA scieNtific Open data Edition |
| Role of organisation | Publisher |
| How to cite | Donnet Sebastien, Lazure Pascal (2020). Fortune Bay (NL, Canada) oceanographic observations May 2015 - May 2017. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/62314 |
Dataset availability
| Original dataset download link | https://cloud.emodnet-ingestion.eu/index.php/s/tZ2iHzJRCbi6dnS |
| Date of original dataset publication | 2020-12-13 |
| Dataset format | Delimited |
| Network Common Data Form | |
| Ocean Data View | |
| Public access | No limitations |
| License for use | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Type | Dataset |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.17882/62314 |
Locations
| Map | © OpenStreetMap contributors |
| Latitude north boundary | 47.75 |
| Longitude east boundary | -54.7 |
| Latitude south boundary | 46.75 |
| Longitude west boundary | -56.5 |
| Sea area | North Atlantic Ocean |
| Gulf of St. Lawrence | |
| Atlantic Ocean | |
| North America Mainland | |
| Northwest Atlantic Ocean (40W) | |
| Vertical extent maximum | 579 Metres |
Data types, collection and processing
| Observation type | Dissolved gases |
| Water column temperature and salinity | |
| Currents | |
| Sea level | |
| Meteorology | |
| Parameter | Sea level |
| Air pressure | |
| Air temperature | |
| Solar Radiation | |
| Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column | |
| Wind strength and direction | |
| Vertical velocity of the water column (currents) | |
| Salinity of the water column | |
| Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) | |
| Temperature of the water column | |
| Instrument type | current profilers |
| Instrument name | Teledyne RDI 300kHz Workhorse Monitor direct-reading ADCP |
| Instrument type | CTD |
| Instrument name | Sea-Bird SBE 19 SEACAT CTD |
| Instrument type | CTD |
| Instrument name | RBR Concerto CTD |
| Instrument type | water temperature sensor |
| water temperature sensor | |
| Instrument name | Sea-Bird SBE 25 Sealogger CTD |
| Instrument type | water temperature sensor |
| Instrument name | RBR XR-420 CTD Marine |
| Instrument type | water pressure sensors |
| water pressure sensors | |
| Instrument name | Unknown temperature and pressure sensor |
| Instrument type | water pressure sensors |
| Instrument name | Sea-Bird SBE 37 MicroCat CTP (submersible) CTD sensor series |
| Platform type | land/onshore structure |
| Platform name | Tide gauge (POOLC) |
| Platform type | land/onshore structure |
| Platform name | Weather station (DOGIS) |
| Platform type | mooring |
| Platform name | site F3B01-01 to 04 |
| Data quality processing information | Processed data |
Process information
| Submitting organisation | Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section |
| Submission identifier (UUID) | a53ad03f-3632-6323-3233-000000062314 |
| Date of dataset creation | 2020-02-10 |
| Date of dataset revision | 2020-06-08 |
| Date of metadata creation | 2020-6-10 |
| Date of metadata latest revision | 2020-11-26 |
| Date of publishing | 2020-12-14 |
| Processing data centre | Ifremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea |
| Summary record-ID | 719 |