Surface Ocean / Lower Atmosphere Study (UK SOLAS)

General Info

Title:	Surface Ocean / Lower Atmosphere Study (UK SOLAS)
Type:	Data Entity
Sub-Type:	Measurement
Abbreviation:	solas
Publication State:	published
The publication state of this metadata: 'old' - for redundant records; 'working' - for new/in progress records; 'published' - for records approaching maturity, which may still change, but should be available via the discovery services; and 'Published' for mature records that are unlikely to change and should be available via the discovery services.

URI:	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dataent_solas

Summary
A brief description of the data.

The overall aim of UK SOLAS is to advance understanding of environmentally significant interactions between the atmosphere and ocean, focusing on material exchanges that involve ocean productivity, atmospheric composition and climate. The knowledge obtained will improve the predictability of climate change and give insights into the distribution and fate of persistent pollutants.

Content
The actual data being described by this document. NB, in the case of data granules, this content may just be a reference to an ingested CSML or CDML file.

Introduction

The UK Surface Ocean / Lower Atmosphere Study (UK SOLAS) is a Directed Mode programme of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The overall aim of UK SOLAS is to advance understanding of environmentally significant interactions between the atmosphere and ocean, focusing on material exchanges that involve ocean productivity, atmospheric composition and climate. The five-year programme started in 2004 and will end in 2009. UK SOLAS is part of the international SOLAS programme whose project office is based at the University of East Anglia, UK. Five SOLAS projects feature at the BADC and these are:

Dust Outflow and Deposition (DODO)

The impact of atmospheric dust derived metal and nutrient inputs on tropical North Atlantic near surface plankton microbiota

Reactive Halogens in the Marine Boundary Layer (Formation of Ultrafine Particles and Atmospheric Cycling) (RHaMBLe)

Measurements at the Cape Verde Observatory

Global Modelling of Aerosols and Chemistry in Support of UK SOLAS

The individual web pages for these projects have project specific information.

Access Restrictions

Data management, availability and use are governed by the UK SOLAS Programme Data Management Plan (PDF document). Access to the archive is restricted to the participants of each project for the first year. To access these data, follow the instructions on the individual project pages linked to above. The data are restricted for a second year to participants in the UK SOLAS programme, after which they will be made public.

If you are a programme participant and would like to access the data, then please follow the link to your project page in the introduction section above and register.

Data Availability and File format

The standard formats for the UK SOLAS programme are NetCDF and NASA Ames.

File names follow the BADC file name convention.

Instructions to data providers

Data file format
The standard formats for use in UK SOLAS are either NetCDF (binary) or NASA Ames (ASCII) format. To ensure the future usability of the data, it is important to include all necessary information about the data with the file. This is termed metadata. The data files submitted should conform to the Climate and Forecasts (CF) Metadata Convention. If you wish to check that files are correctly formatted before uploading them please use the NetCDF format checker or NASA-Ames format checker. Many data files contain the variable time which can be expressed in several ways. Guidelines on the recommended format of the time-variable header lines, units and the data values in Nasa-Ames files are available and are based on the format used in NetCDF.

Data file names
Please use standardised filenames as described on the file-naming convention page. Note that the first component of the file name is the instrument (or group of instruments, or model) name. Please refer to the current list of standard instrument/model names and advise the BADC if your instrument or model is not yet in the list.

Data file submission
To upload your data files to the BADC, you will need to register for one of the above projects which are linked from the top of the page.
The UK SOLAS web uploader will allow you to submit data files or documents to the BADC. Large amounts of files can also be submitted by ftp.

Documentation, Services and Links to further information

Documentation

UK SOLAS Programme Data Management Plan
UK SOLAS Data Protocol.
Metadata
NetCDF format and CF metadata conventions.
NASA-Ames data and metadata format including time variable
The BADC File Name Convention and the list of Standard Instrument Names

Services to SOLAS-UK participants

Links

Citation

Date of citation

Who to contact

The main contact for scientific queries concerning UK SOLAS is Dr. Phil Williamson.
The NERC Programme officer is Sophie Hodgson.

General queries about these pages or browsing the data should be directed to the BADC support line.

Lineage
Summary of the origins of the dataset, e.g.: "Dataset produced from NASA MODIS instrument on Terra and collected at the University of York's groundstation 1999-2003 and a copy provided to NEODC in June 2007".

Data supplied by campaign participants.

Quality Statement
Description of the relative quality of the dataset.

research data

Author
The principal author of the actual underlying data. Only one author can be specified per atom; if there are multiple authors, these should be specified as 'contributors'. NB, an atom MUST have an author specified.

Name	email
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)	http://www.nerc.ac.uk

Contributors
Any other authors of the actual underlying data. NB, the principal author should be specified in the 'Author' input field. Also, note, three contributors can be added at once; after these are added a further three may be specified - and so on.

Name	email
Phil Williamson, University of East Anglia

Online References
Online references with a specific relationship to the data being described here. NB, if links are supplied they must be valid and include the transport protocol - e.g. 'http://blah.co.uk'. Also, note, three online references can be added at once; after these are added a further three may be specified - and so on.

Relation	Title
Documentation	UK SOLAS at BODC
Documentation	BADC Doc: SOLAS-UK DUST project
Documentation	BADC Doc: SOLAS-UK RHaMBLe project
Documentation	UK SOLAS NERC website
Documentation	SOLAS International website
Documentation	SOLAS-UK Conditions of Use
Documentation	BADC Doc: SOLAS-UK Cape Verde Observatory
Documentation	BADC Doc: SOLAS-UK GLOMAP project
Documentation	BADC Doc: SOLAS-UK DODO project
Download	SOLAS Data Directory
Apply for access	Apply for access to SOLAS data
Logo	SOLAS Logo

Parent Data Entity
Define the parent of this record. There should probably only be one parent, but this is not enforced.

No data specified at present

Sub Data Entities
Lists all entities which have the current entity as their parent.

None

Associated Deployments

Data Coverage
Summary of the temporal and spatial data coverage for the data.

Spatial coverage
Max Y: 90.0
Min X: -180.0	Max X 180.0
Min Y -90.0

Temporal coverage
Start Date:	2006-08-31
End Date:

Spatial resolution

No spatial resoultion information available.

Vertical extent

No vertical extent information available.

Responsible Parties
Parties responsible for the metadata - e.g. data curator. Responsible parties can have a role specified to make their function clearer. Multiple responsible parties can be specified.

Role	Name	URI
Data Curator	badc.nerc.ac.uk	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk

Other Info
Other miscellaneous information. Note, update frequency relates to the update frequency of the underlying data, not the metadata.

Dataset language

English

Update frequency

asNeeded

Links and Services
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