Details of Water Temperature collected from Commercial Lobster Traps in Gulf of Maine and Southern New England Shelf

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Dataset identification

Title of datasetWater Temperature collected from Commercial Lobster Traps in Gulf of Maine and Southern New England Shelf
Narrative summary of datasetDataset contains bottom temperature data from lobster traps sites in the Gulf of Maine and the South New England Bight. The hourly time series begins in 2001 at over 100 fixed locations where commercial lobstermen have placed their traps. The water depths range from 1- 405 meters. The variability associated with tidal, wind, seasonal, and inter-annual processes can be depicted at nearly all sites in this multi-year time series. This data was collected as part of the Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps (eMOLT) project - a non-profit collaboration of industry, science and academics devoted to the monitoring of the physical environment of the Gulf of Maine and the Southern New England Shelf. 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 methodology1) The fishermen attach the sensor to the lobster trap for the entire duration of the fishing season. 2) The science party mails a self-addressed-stamped envelope to the fishermen near the end of the year asking for: a) probes to be returned, b) documentation on any changes in mooring location/depth, c) catch for traps with probes attached (optional) 3) The data is downloaded, cleaned, filtered (for occasional spikes associated with hauling), plotted, archived, and posted on the web 4) Probes are immersed in a controlled ice-bath to check on biases and calibrations 5) The science party reinitialises the temperature sensor at hourly sample rate and mails it back to participants along with hard copy plots ofthe data.
Start date2000-01-01
End date2018-05-28
Frequency of observationshour to sub-day

Responsible organisations

CountryFrance
Organisation nameIfremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea
Role of organisationDataset Holding Organisation
CountryFrance
Organisation nameSEA scieNtific Open data Edition
Role of organisationPublisher
How to citeManning James, Pelletier Erin (2020). Water Temperature collected from Commercial Lobster Traps in Gulf of Maine and Southern New England Shelf. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/74389 In addition to properly cite this dataset, it would be appreciated that the following work(s) be cited too, when using this dataset in a publication : Manning J, Pelletier E (2014). Environmental monitors on lobster traps (eMOLT): long-term observations of New England’s bottom-water temperatures. Journal of Operational Oceanography, 2(1), 25-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/1755876X.2009.11020106

Dataset availability

Original dataset download linkhttps://cloud.emodnet-ingestion.eu/index.php/s/oTVaM7UuZJCC83Z
Date of original dataset publication2020-12-13
Dataset formatDelimited
Public accessNo limitations
License for useCC-BY 4.0
TypeDataset
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.17882/74389

Locations

Map
Latitude north boundary45
Longitude east boundary-60
Latitude south boundary39
Longitude west boundary-73
Sea areaNorth Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
North America Mainland
Northwest Atlantic Ocean (40W)
Vertical extent maximum366 Metres

Data types, collection and processing

Observation typeWater column temperature and salinity
ParameterTemperature of the water column
Instrument typewater temperature sensor
Instrument nameUnknown temperature and pressure sensor
Instrument typewater temperature sensor
Instrument nameSea-Bird SBE 37 MicroCat CTP (submersible) CTD sensor series
Platform typemooring
Platform nameLobster traps
Data quality processing informationRaw data

Process information

Submitting organisationNOAA, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Submission identifier (UUID)a53ad03f-3734-7343-3433-000000074389
Date of dataset creation2020-06-01
Date of dataset revision2020-10-01
Date of metadata creation2020-10-3
Date of metadata latest revision2020-11-26
Date of publishing2020-12-14
Processing data centreIfremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea
Summary record-ID722