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| Data set name | Galway Bay Coastal Obsertvatory CTD | |||||||||
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| GEMET-INSPIRE themes | Oceanographic geographical features | |||||||||
| Abstract | The Galway Bay Coastal Observatory was installed in 2015 on the seafloor in the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site, which is an area 1.5km off Spiddal pier and is used primarily to test small scale ocean energy devices. The observatory uses cameras, probes and sensors to permit continuous and remote live underwater monitoring. Data relating to the marine environment at the site are transferred in real-time from the Galway Bay Observatory to the Marine Institute headquarters. The real-time data are visualised on a web based dashboard which is best accessed using the Google Chrome web browser at: http://smartbay.marine.ie. These data are from an Idronaut Ocean-Seven 304 Conductivity-Temperature-Depth probe installed on the observatory infrastructure. The instrument measures the temperature and conductivity of the seawater (the conductivity is used to calculate an estimate of the salinity); the pressure exert by the seawater above (from which the depth of the sensor is estimated); and these parameters are also used to estimate the speed of sound within the sea. The dataset covers the period from 30th September 2015 to 13th November 2015. The data supplied here are 1 minute averaged data and the full resolution data are available from the Marine Institute's Erddap server (https://erddap.marine.ie/erddap/tabledap/spiddal_obs_ctd.html). | |||||||||
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| Data size | 4361214.00 MB | |||||||||
| Data set creation date | 20190523 | |||||||||
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| Latitude | 53.227330000000002 | |||||||||
| Longitude | -9.2662899999999997 | |||||||||
| Datum | World Geodetic System 84 | |||||||||
| Measuring area type | point | |||||||||
| Water depth (m) | 23 | |||||||||
| Depth reference | Lowest Astronomical Tide | |||||||||
| Minimum instrument depth (m) | 20 | |||||||||
| Maximum instrument depth (m) | 20 | |||||||||
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| Location qualification | Landward side of the 12 NM boundary | |||||||||
| MSFD areas | North East Atlantic Ocean | |||||||||
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| Start date | 20150930 | |||||||||
| Start time | 12:49:00 | |||||||||
| End date | 20151113 | |||||||||
| End time | 12:55:00 | |||||||||
| Temporal resolution | 1 | |||||||||
| Temporal resolution | Minutes | |||||||||
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| Station name | Spiddal Observatory Site | |||||||||
| Alternative station name | Spiddal | |||||||||
| Station start date | 20150901 | |||||||||
| Who? | ||||||||||
| Data originator | SmartBay Ireland | |||||||||
| Data custodian | Marine Institute | |||||||||
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| Data Distributor | Marine Institute | |||||||||
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| Access/ordering of data | web data access with registration | |||||||||
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| Lineage | The data centres apply standard data quality control procedures on all data that the centres manage. Ask the data centre for details. | |||||||||
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| CDI-record id | 2641859 | |||||||||
| Version | 0 | |||||||||
| CDI-record initial import date | 2018-04-16 17:27:16.500 | |||||||||
| CDI-record last update | 2018-04-16 17:27:16.920 | |||||||||
| Point of contact | Marine Institute |