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If the user want to refine the search, this can be done by constraining the bounding box search. This is done in the map - the listing of datasets is automatically updated. Date constraints can be added in the left column. For these to take effect, the user has to push the button marked search. In the left column it is also possible to specific text elements to search for in the datasets. Again pushing the button marked "Search" is necessary for these to take action. Complex search patterns can be constructed using logical operators and phrases embedded in quotation marks. Logical operators include AND, OR and NOT. Remember to add space around operators. Text strings that are not quoted are trated as separate words and will match any of the words (i.e. assuming the OR operator). E.g. in order to find WMO synoptic weather station data from Verlegenhuken use the search phrase: [synop AND verlegenhuken]. Searches are case insensitive.
Other elements indicated in the left and right columns are facet searches, i.e. these are keywords that are found in the datasets and all datasets that contain these specific keywords in the appropriate metadata elements are listed together. Further refinement can be done using full text, date or bounding box constraints. Individuals, organisations and data centres involved in generating or curating the datasets are listed in the facets in the right column.
Collections
Collections allows the user to search in subsets of the existing catalogue. The collections are primarily data management projects that have been incorporated in the ADC catalogue after the project has ended. In this context the ADC is the long term access solution for these data. The collections currently served through ADC include (datasets may belong to multiple data collections):
ADC is the full collection of this service CC is the CryoClim collection
In order to search a specific data collection select that collection. If no data collection is selected all collections are searched.
AeN are data related to the Nansen Legacy project and are better explored through the SIOS Data Access Point using the collection defined there which is available through this URL.
SIOS, InfraNOR, SIOSCD, SIOSAP, SESS_* are collections related to SIOS. These are better explored through the SIOS Data Access Portal
Some cleaning is pending between InfraNOR and SIOSIN, for some of the SESS collections.
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Citation information for individual datasets is often provided in the metadata. However, not all datasets have this information embedded in the discovery metadata. On a general basis a citation of a dataset include the same components as any other citation:
author,
title,
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edition or version,
access information (a URL or persistent identifier, e.g. DOI if provided)
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Institutions: The University Centre in Svalbard, The University Centre in Svalbard, The University Centre in Svalbard, The University Centre in Svalbard, Norwegian Meteorological Institute / Arctic Data Centre
The file contains time series of meteorological near-surface parameters measured on a temporary meteorological mast on the southern side of the coast of Adventdalen, Svalbard, from July to August 2022: Both temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction were measured at two levels.
Institutions: The University Centre in Svalbard, The University Centre in Svalbard, University of Bergen, University of Bergen, The University Centre in Svalbard, Norwegian Meteorological Institute / Arctic Data Centre
A scanning Doppler Lidar was placed in Adventdalen (Central Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway) close to the permanent weather mast SN99870. The Lidar measured between 4 July and 23 August 2022 with different scanning patterns in an hourly cycle. The cycle consisted of three Plan Position Indicator (PPI) scans at 1, 5 and 10 degree from xx:00 to xx:10, Range Height Indicator (RHI) scans alternating between up-valley and down-valley direction from xx:10 to xx:50, Doppler-Beam-Swinging (DBS) technique from xx:50 to xy:00. The radial resolution was 10 m with overlapping range gates of 50 m. Short periods of power cuts were encountered. Frequently there were conditions with little backscatter and low carrier-to-noise ratio, especially in light down-valley winds.
Institutions: The University Centre in Svalbard, The University Centre in Svalbard, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norwegian Meteorological Institute / Arctic Data Centre (NO/MET/ADC)
The Isfjorden Weather Information Network provides standard meteorological near-surface measurements from the Isfjorden region in Svalbard. The network includes weather stations permanently installed on lighthouses around the fjord and onboard small tourist cruise ships trafficking the fjord from the spring to the autumn. Data is available since August 2021 and new observations become available here in near real-time.
Institutions: NORCE Tromsø, Norwegian Meteorological Institute / Arctic Data Centre
Last metadata update: 2022-12-05T13:18:30Z
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Sentinel-1 Wet snow product: The warming climate on Svalbard impacts the amounts of wet snow significantly. Sentinel-1 is sensitive to wet snow as compared with dry snow or bare soil, and the current dataset provides up to daily maps over Svalbard of the spatial distribution of wet snow. The maps are derived from three SAR instriments (Envisat ASAR 2004-2012, Radarsat-2 2012-2014, and Sentinel-1 A/B from 2014-2020). Grid cells are classified with codes where 20=water, 30=nodata, 100=bare ground, 200=dry snow, 205=wetsnow
Time series from March 19th 2012 of solar radiation and photosynthetic active radiation (PAR)
from data loggers located at the roof of the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) in Longyearbyen, Norway. Location 78o13’21’’N/15o39’9’’E,
20 m above sea level. Measurements were recorded every 10 minutes
Institutions: NILU, Norwegian Meteorological Institute / Arctic Data Centre
Last metadata update: 2022-08-16T12:14:40Z
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Remote-sensing observations performed using the Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) technique to quantify the abundance of NO2. The dataset ranges from 2020-03-13T09:22:02 to 2021-10-02T13:57:40, and contains the variables altitude_instrument, angle_solar_azimuth, angle_solar_zenith_astronomical, latitude, longitude, no2_column_absorption_solar, no2_column_absorption_solar_amf, no2_column_absorption_solar_flag, no2_column_absorption_solar_uncertainty_combined_standard, no2_column_absorption_solar_uncertainty_mixed_standard, no2_column_absorption_solar_uncertainty_random_standard, no2_column_absorption_solar_uncertainty_systematic_standard, temperature_effective_no2, temperature_effective_no2_uncertainty_combined_standard, temperature_effective_no2_uncertainty_mixed_standard, temperature_effective_no2_uncertainty_random_standard and temperature_effective_no2_uncertainty_systematic_standard. The datset is provided by Ann Mari Fjaeraa,NILU.
Near-surface remote sensing techniques including hyperspectral sensors are essential monitoring tools to provide spatial and temporal resolution. More frequent and finer scale observations help to monitor specific plant communities and accurately time the phenological stages of vegetation and snow cover, A Hyperspectral field sensor (FloX) was installed as an integral part of an automatic system for monitoring vegetation and environmental seasonal changes (phenology) on Svalbard (AsMoVEn) funded by SIOS. The fluorescence box (FloX) is a unique instrument, enabling continuous observation of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF). FLoX measures spectral data of extremely high resolution, The FloX is specifically designed to passively measure chlorophyll fluorescence under natural light conditions. The core of the system is the QEPro spectrometer from Ocean Optics covering the Red/Near Infrared region (650 – 800 nm) with a spectral resolution (FWHM) of 0.3 nm. This is the spectral range where chlorophyll fluorescence is emitted and where the two atmospheric oxygen absorption bands (O2B and O2A, at 689 nm and 760 nm respectively) are used to measure it. The FLoX has an additional spectrometer measuring in visible and NIR-region (400– 950 nm) with a spectral resolution (FWHM) of 1.5 nm allowing extraction of different vegetation indices from the visible and near-infrared region.
Meteorological data from 10m weather mast during the N-ICE2015 expedition: wind speed, wind direction, air temperature, air pressure, and relative humidity. Please read the Readme files for detailed information on processing and quality control.
The data has been collected during the Nansen Legacy Joint Cruise 3, 19th February – 11th March 2022 on the research vessel RV Kronprins Haakon (cruise number 2022702), along a transect from 76N to 82N east of Svalbard. The dataset contains mesozooplankton occurrence. It has been sampled using a BongoNet, HydroBios 60 cm. Small mesozooplankton were collected with a mesh-size 64 µm and large mesozooplankton with a mesh-size 180 µm. All specimens are identified to the lowest taxonomical level and the occurrence is given for a specific species and stage or size group as ind/m3.
Sampling method:
The sampling covers a transect from 76 N to 82 N in the northern Barents Sea and Arctic Ocean. Zooplankton has been collected using a BongoNet 60 cm (HydroBios, opening: 0.2827 m2, net length: 250 cm). Small mesozooplankton were collected with a mesh-size 64 µm and large mesozooplankton with a mesh-size 180 µm. All samples were added 4 % formaldehyde free from acid.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS DATASET CONTAINS TWO COMPLETE DATASETS OF ZOOPLANKTON: ONE FOR SMALL MESOZOOPLANKTON (APPROX BODY SIZE BELOW 2 MM) COLLECTED WITH MULTINET 64 µM AND ONE FOR LARGE MESOZOOPLANKTON (APPROX BODY SIZE ABOVE 2 MM) COLLECTED WITH MULTINET 180 µM MESH SIZE. THE INFO ABOUT WHICH NET IS USED CAN BE FOUND IN gearType, USE EITHER 64 UM OR 180 UM DEPENDING ON WHETHER THE FOCUS IS SMALL OR LARGE MESOZOOPLANKTON
Analyse method:
All samples have been analysed at Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN). The organisms were identified and counted under a stereomicroscope equipped with an ocular micrometer, according to standard procedures (Harris et al. 2000). Small-sized zooplankters (most of Copepoda, juvenile stages of Pteropoda, Euphausiacea, Ostracoda, Amphipoda and Chaetognatha) were identified and counted in sub-samples obtained from the fixed sample volume by automatic pipette (approximately 500 individuals). Large zooplankters (big Copepoda, Pteropoda, Euphausiacea, Ostracoda, Amphipoda, Decapoda, Appendicularia, Chaetognatha, and Pisces larvae) were sorted out and identified from the whole sample. Representatives of Calanus spp. were identified at the species level based on morphology and prosome lengths of individual copepodid stages (Kwasniewski et al. 2003).
Data structure:
The data is following Darwin Core nomenclature as far as possible but also include variables that aren’t supported by Darwin Core. All information about the sampling such as eventDate, latitude, longitude, depts etc is located in event file while the result such as scientificName, lifeStage, occurrence etc. are found in the occurrence file
Header name index - events
- expedition: cruise number for R/V Kronprins Haakon
- eventID: UUID for the sampel
- parentID: UUID for the gear deployment (each MultiNet deployment has a unique parentID)
- eventDate: the date-time when an event occurred, using ISO 8601-1:2019 format (2020-07-27T07:16:03.446Z).
- fieldNumber: human-readable sample ID (e.g. ZOT-001)
- locationID: station name
- decimalLongitude: geographic latitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodetic datum)
- decimalLatitude: geographic longitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodeticDatum)
- bottomDepthInMeters: bottom depth in meters
- eventRemarks: comments or remarks about the event (free text field)
- gearType: the gear used to take the sample e.g. MultiNet 200 µm
- maximumDepthInMeters: bottom depth of the sampled layer
- minimumDepthInMeters: top depth of the sampled layer
- sampleType: description of the sample type according to a standard list
- fieldSplit: info about whether the sample is splitted. If the sample was split in 2 then fieldSplit = 2
- initialSampleVolume: The volume of water filtered through the plankton net. (initialSampleVolume = (netOpeningArea * (maximumDepthInMeters – minimumDepthInMeters)/field Split), Bongonet opening area: 3.14*(0.3)^2=0.2826 m2
- recordedBy: name of the person who took the samples
- principalInvestigatorName: name of the person in charge of the sample collection
- principalInvestigatorEmail: email address of the person in charge of the sample collection
- principalInvestigatorInstitution: affiliated institution of the person in charge of the sample collection
Header name index - occurrence
- analysedFraction: fraction of the sampled volume that is examined for organism counted
- individualCount: the number of individuals present in the analysed volume (see extra information below)
- phylum, class, order, family, genus & taxonKey-LSID: Taxonomical information for given species according to Worms
- scientificName: full scientific name of the identified organism at the lowest taxonomic level that can be ascertained. The scientificName should be selected from a drop-down menu linked to the list in taxonomy sheet. (e.g Calanus finmarchicus).
- identificationQualifier: A standard term (sp., spp., and indet.) to express the determiner’s doubts about the Identification.
- lifeStage: the age class, life stage, or life form/morph of the organism.
- sizeGroupOperator: describes if the size group is less than or greater than a value (It = less than, gte = greater or equal to)
- sizeGroup: the size group in mm.
- organismRemark: indicates whether it is mesozooplankton, macrozooplankton, rare species
- identificationRemarks: a free text field for adding information relevant to the analysis. Used to indicate the speciemen that were dead. When nothing was remarked they were alive.
- identifiedBy: person who did the lab-analyse
- sampleSizeValue: the sample volume used to calculate the organismQuantity (sampleSizeValue 0 initialSampleVolume *analysedFraction)
- sampleSizeUnit: m3
- organismQuantity: the quantity of the organism per volume water in the environment (organismQuantity = individualCount/sampleSizeValue)
- organismQuantityType: ind/m3
Additional information for some of the fields
individualCount: The number of (all) organisms found in the sample examined
- for “mesozooplankton”, the number of mesozooplankton (medium size zooplankton organisms) encountered in all sub-samples
- for “macrozooplankton”, the number of macrozooplankton (large size zooplankton organisms, total length > 5 mm) encountered, identified in the entire sample
- for “rare” zooplankton, we only enter information about the finding of “rare” zooplankton in the database template, and its absolute number (“organismQuantity”) is not estimated
Funding:
The Nansen Legacy is funded by the Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. They provide 50% of the budget while the participating institutions contribute 50% in-kind. The total budget for the Nansen Legacy project is 740 mill. NOK.
Upwelling and downwelling longwave and shortwave radiation and shortwave albedo from station deployed out on the ice floe, nearby surface meteorology observations.
WP2
Quality
Albedo data is on a different time step and is a heavily processed version of a subset of the the radiation data, see attributes in the NetCDF files and the READMEs:
Dataset of annual mass balances of Svenbreen, a small valley glacier in Central Spitsbergen, 2010/2011 - 2017/2018
To date (31st Jan 2020), the data have not been published in an article in a peer-reviewed journal, which is planned for 2021 or 2022, following the completion of ten years of measurements. It is possible that the exact values might differ slightly between this dataset and the planned paper due to differences in methodology, eg. updated glacier hypsometries. If this dataset is of your interest, please check Jakub Malecki’s publication record for the most up-to-date data..
Quality
Annual mass balance of Svenbreen has been measured with a glaciological method since 2010/2011, typically between 1st and 15th day of September every year. Ablation stake network comprises 12-16 stakes distributed along the glacier tongue and in two (out of three) high-elevation sections, i.e. in the cirque and along an ice patch leading towards neighbouring glacier Hoelbreen.
The data has been collected during the JC2-1: Nansen Legacy Joint Cruise 2-1 12th July - 29th July 2021 on the research vessel RV Kronprins Haakon (cruise number 2021708), along a transect from 76N to 82N east of Svalbard. The dataset contains mesozooplankton occurrence. It has been sampled using a BongoNet, HydroBios 60 cm. Small mesozooplankton were collected with a mesh-size 64 µm and large mesozooplankton were collected with a mesh-size 180 µm. All specimens are identified to the lowest taxonomical level and the occurrence is given for a specific species and stage or size group as ind/m3.
Sampling method:
The sampling covers a transect from the central Barents Sea (76N) to the Arctic Ocean (82N) east of Svalbard, including 7 stations (P1 to P7). Zooplankton has been collected using a BongoNet 60 cm (HydroBios, opening: 0.2827 m2, net length: 250 cm). Small mesozooplankton were collected with a mesh-size 64 µm and large mesozooplankton were collected with a mesh-size 180 µm. All samples were added 1 ml of Neutral Red Stain stock solution and wait 20 minutes before the samples is rinsed briefly and preserved in 4 % formaldehyde free from acid. The NeutralRed Stain. The samples were analysed within two months after sampling. Neutral Red Stain make it possible to distinguish between dead and alive zooplankton (Elliot and Tang 2009).
PLEASE NOTE: THIS DATASET CONTAINS TWO COMPLETE DATASETS OF ZOOPLANKTON: ONE FOR SMALL MESOZOOPLANKTON (APPROX BODY SIZE BELOW 2 MM) COLLECTED WITH MESH SIZE 64 µM AND ONE FOR LARGE MESOZOOPLANKTON (APPROX BODY SIZE ABOVE 2 MM) COLLECTED WITH MESH SIZE 180 µM MESH SIZE. THE INFO ABOUT WHICH NET IS USED CAN BE FOUND IN gearType. USE EITHER 64 UM OR 180 UM DEPENDING ON WHETHER THE FOCUS IS SMALL OR LARGE MESOZOOPLANKTON
Analyse method:
All samples have been analysed at Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN). The organisms were identified and counted under a stereomicroscope equipped with an ocular micrometer, according to standard procedures (Harris et al. 2000). Small-sized zooplankters (most of Copepoda, juvenile stages of Pteropoda, Euphausiacea, Ostracoda, Amphipoda and Chaetognatha) were identified and counted in sub-samples obtained from the fixed sample volume by automatic pipette (approximately 500 individuals). Large zooplankters (big Copepoda, Pteropoda, Euphausiacea, Ostracoda, Amphipoda, Decapoda, Appendicularia, Chaetognatha, and Pisces larvae) were sorted out and identified from the whole sample. Representatives of Calanus spp. were identified at the species level based on morphology and prosome lengths of individual copepodid stages (Kwasniewski et al. 2003).
Data structure:
The data is following Darwin Core nomenclature as far as possible but also include variables that aren’t supported by Darwin Core. All information about the sampling such as eventDate, latitude, longitude, depts etc is located in event file while the result such as scientificName, lifeStage, occurrence etc. are found in the occurrence file
Header name index - events
- expedition: cruise number for R/V Kronprins Haakon
- eventID: UUID for the sampel
- parentID: UUID for the gear deployment (each MultiNet deployment has a unique parentID)
- eventDate: the date-time when an event occurred, using ISO 8601-1:2019 format (2020-07-27T07:16:03.446Z).
- fieldNumber: human-readable sample ID (e.g. ZOT-001)
- locationID: station name
- decimalLongitude: geographic latitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodetic datum)
- decimalLatitude: geographic longitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodeticDatum)
- bottomDepthInMeters: bottom depth in meters
- eventRemarks: comments or remarks about the event (free text field)
- gearType: the gear used to take the sample e.g. MultiNet 200 µm
- maximumDepthInMeters: bottom depth of the sampled layer
- minimumDepthInMeters: top depth of the sampled layer
- sampleType: description of the sample type according to a standard list
- fieldSplit: info about whether the sample is splitted. If the sample was split in 2 then fieldSplit = 2
- initialSampleVolume: The volume of water filtered through the plankton net. (initialSampleVolume = (netOpeningArea * (maximumDepthInMeters – minimumDepthInMeters)/field Split), Bongonet opening area: 3.14*(0.3)^2=0.2826 m2
- recordedBy: name of the person who took the samples
- principalInvestigatorName: name of the person in charge of the sample collection
- principalInvestigatorEmail: email address of the person in charge of the sample collection
- principalInvestigatorInstitution: affiliated institution of the person in charge of the sample collection
Header name index - occurrence
- analysedFraction: fraction of the sampled volume that is examined for organism counted
- individualCount: the number of individuals present in the analysed volume (see extra information below)
- phylum, class, order, family, genus & taxonKey-LSID: Taxonomical information for given species according to Worms
- scientificName: full scientific name of the identified organism at the lowest taxonomic level that can be ascertained. The scientificName should be selected from a drop-down menu linked to the list in taxonomy sheet. (e.g Calanus finmarchicus).
- identificationQualifier: A standard term (sp., spp., and indet.) to express the determiner’s doubts about the Identification.
- lifeStage: the age class, life stage, or life form/morph of the organism.
- sizeGroupOperator: describes if the size group is less than or greater than a value (It = less than, gte = greater or equal to)
- sizeGroup: the size group in mm.
- organismRemark: indicates whether it is mesozooplankton, macrozooplankton, rare species
- identificationRemarks: a free text field for adding information relevant to the analysis. Used to indicate the speciemen that were dead. When nothing was remarked they were alive.
- identifiedBy: person who did the lab-analyse
- sampleSizeValue: the sample volume used to calculate the organismQuantity (sampleSizeValue 0 initialSampleVolume *analysedFraction)
- sampleSizeUnit: m3
- organismQuantity: the quantity of the organism per volume water in the environment (organismQuantity = individualCount/sampleSizeValue)
- organismQuantityType: ind/m3
Additional information for some of the fields
individualCount: The number of (all) organisms found in the sample examined
- for “mesozooplankton”, the number of mesozooplankton (medium size zooplankton organisms) encountered in all sub-samples
- for “macrozooplankton”, the number of macrozooplankton (large size zooplankton organisms, total length > 5 mm) encountered, identified in the entire sample
- for “rare” zooplankton, we only enter information about the finding of “rare” zooplankton in the database template, and its absolute number (“organismQuantity”) is not estimated
Funding:
The Nansen Legacy is funded by the Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. They provide 50% of the budget while the participating institutions contribute 50% in-kind. The total budget for the Nansen Legacy project is 740 mill. NOK.
Instrument height above surface varies thoughout the record, depending on snow amounts and ice melt. Thus “2-m temperature” is only nominally at two meters above the surface. For information, contact authors. Height above sea level: 570 m.
- SW_in_Wpm2_Avg: Incoming shortwave radiation (W/m2) (Col H “Radiation SW ↓” )
- LW_in_corr_Wpm2_Avg: Incoming longwave radiation (W/m2) (Col J “Radiation LW ↓”)
- SW_out_Wpm2_Avg: Reflected shortwave radiation (W/m2) (Col I “Radiation SW ↑”)
- LW_out_corr_Wpm2_Avg: Outgoing longwave radiation (W/m2) (Col K “Radiation LW ↑”)
- AT_2_Avg: Air temperature 2 m above ice surface (C) (Col B “T (C)“)
- RH_2_Avg: Relative humidity 2 m above ice surface (%) (Col C “RH (%)”)
- WS_2_WVc(1): Wind speed 2 m over ice surface (m/s) (Col F “Wind speed Mean (m/s)”)
- Gust_2_Max: Maximum wind gust 2 m over ice surface (m/s) (Col E “Wind speed Max (m/s)”)
- WS_2_WVc(2): Wind direction 2 m over ice surface (degrees) (Col G “Wind direction (deg)”)
The data has been collected during the Q2: Nansen Legacy Seasonal Study Q2 27th April - 20th May 2021 on research vessel Kronprins Haakon (cruise number 2021704), along a transect from 76N to 82N east of Svalbard. The dataset contains mesozooplankton occurrence. It has been sampled using a BongoNet, HydroBios 60 cm. Small mesozooplankton were collected with a mesh-size 64 µm and large mesozooplankton were collected with a mesh-size 180 µm. All specimens are identified to the lowest taxonomical level and the occurrence is given for a specific species and stage or size group as ind/m3.
Sampling method:
The sampling covers a transect from the central Barents Sea (76N) to the Arctic Ocean (82N) east of Svalbard, including 7 stations (P1 to P7). Zooplankton has been collected using a BongoNet 60 cm (HydroBios, opening: 0.2827 m2, net length: 250 cm). Small mesozooplankton were collected with a mesh-size 64 µm and large mesozooplankton were collected with a mesh-size 180 µm. All samples were added 1 ml of Neutral Red Stain stock solution and wait 20 minutes before the samples is rinsed briefly and preserved in 4 % formaldehyde free from acid. The NeutralRed Stain. The samples were analysed within two months after sampling. Neutral Red Stain make it possible to distinguish between dead and alive zooplankton (Elliot and Tang 2009).
PLEASE NOTE: THIS DATASET CONTAINS TWO COMPLETE DATASETS OF ZOOPLANKTON: ONE FOR SMALL MESOZOOPLANKTON (APPROX BODY SIZE BELOW 2 MM) COLLECTED WITH MESH SIZE 64 µM AND ONE FOR LARGE MESOZOOPLANKTON (APPROX BODY SIZE ABOVE 2 MM) COLLECTED WITH MESH SIZE 180 µM MESH SIZE. THE INFO ABOUT WHICH NET IS USED CAN BE FOUND IN gearType. USE EITHER 64 UM OR 180 UM DEPENDING ON WHETHER THE FOCUS IS SMALL OR LARGE MESOZOOPLANKTON
Analyse method:
All samples have been analysed at Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN). The organisms were identified and counted under a stereomicroscope equipped with an ocular micrometer, according to standard procedures (Harris et al. 2000). Small-sized zooplankters (most of Copepoda, juvenile stages of Pteropoda, Euphausiacea, Ostracoda, Amphipoda and Chaetognatha) were identified and counted in sub-samples obtained from the fixed sample volume by automatic pipette (approximately 500 individuals). Large zooplankters (big Copepoda, Pteropoda, Euphausiacea, Ostracoda, Amphipoda, Decapoda, Appendicularia, Chaetognatha, and Pisces larvae) were sorted out and identified from the whole sample. Representatives of Calanus spp. were identified at the species level based on morphology and prosome lengths of individual copepodid stages (Kwasniewski et al. 2003).
Data structure:
The data is following Darwin Core nomenclature as far as possible but also include variables that aren’t supported by Darwin Core. All information about the sampling such as eventDate, latitude, longitude, depts etc is located in event file while the result such as scientificName, lifeStage, occurrence etc. are found in the occurrence file
Header name index - events
- expedition: cruise number for R/V Kronprins Haakon
- eventID: UUID for the sampel
- parentID: UUID for the gear deployment (each MultiNet deployment has a unique parentID)
- eventDate: the date-time when an event occurred, using ISO 8601-1:2019 format (2020-07-27T07:16:03.446Z).
- fieldNumber: human-readable sample ID (e.g. ZOT-001)
- locationID: station name
- decimalLongitude: geographic latitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodetic datum)
- decimalLatitude: geographic longitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodeticDatum)
- bottomDepthInMeters: bottom depth in meters
- eventRemarks: comments or remarks about the event (free text field)
- gearType: the gear used to take the sample e.g. MultiNet 200 µm
- maximumDepthInMeters: bottom depth of the sampled layer
- minimumDepthInMeters: top depth of the sampled layer
- sampleType: description of the sample type according to a standard list
- fieldSplit: info about whether the sample is splitted. If the sample was split in 2 then fieldSplit = 2
- initialSampleVolume: The volume of water filtered through the plankton net. (initialSampleVolume = (netOpeningArea * (maximumDepthInMeters – minimumDepthInMeters)/field Split), Bongonet opening area: 3.14*(0.3)^2=0.2826 m2
- recordedBy: name of the person who took the samples
- principalInvestigatorName: name of the person in charge of the sample collection
- principalInvestigatorEmail: email address of the person in charge of the sample collection
- principalInvestigatorInstitution: affiliated institution of the person in charge of the sample collection
Header name index - occurrence
- analysedFraction: fraction of the sampled volume that is examined for organism counted
- individualCount: the number of individuals present in the analysed volume (see extra information below)
- phylum, class, order, family, genus & taxonKey-LSID: Taxonomical information for given species according to Worms
- scientificName: full scientific name of the identified organism at the lowest taxonomic level that can be ascertained. The scientificName should be selected from a drop-down menu linked to the list in taxonomy sheet. (e.g Calanus finmarchicus).
- identificationQualifier: A standard term (sp., spp., and indet.) to express the determiner’s doubts about the Identification.
- lifeStage: the age class, life stage, or life form/morph of the organism.
- sizeGroupOperator: describes if the size group is less than or greater than a value (It = less than, gte = greater or equal to)
- sizeGroup: the size group in mm.
- organismRemark: indicates whether it is mesozooplankton, macrozooplankton, rare species
- identificationRemarks: a free text field for adding information relevant to the analysis. Used to indicate the speciemen that were dead. When nothing was remarked they were alive.
- identifiedBy: person who did the lab-analyse
- sampleSizeValue: the sample volume used to calculate the organismQuantity (sampleSizeValue 0 initialSampleVolume *analysedFraction)
- sampleSizeUnit: m3
- organismQuantity: the quantity of the organism per volume water in the environment (organismQuantity = individualCount/sampleSizeValue)
- organismQuantityType: ind/m3
Additional information for some of the fields
individualCount: The number of (all) organisms found in the sample examined
- for “mesozooplankton”, the number of mesozooplankton (medium size zooplankton organisms) encountered in all sub-samples
- for “macrozooplankton”, the number of macrozooplankton (large size zooplankton organisms, total length > 5 mm) encountered, identified in the entire sample
- for “rare” zooplankton, we only enter information about the finding of “rare” zooplankton in the database template, and its absolute number (“organismQuantity”) is not estimated
Funding:
The Nansen Legacy is funded by the Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. They provide 50% of the budget while the participating institutions contribute 50% in-kind. The total budget for the Nansen Legacy project is 740 mill. NOK.