Alternate title

EN4

Date

Identifier

Temperature of the water column | Temperature of the water body | Met Office Hadley Centre | EN4

Other citation details

EN4: quality controlled subsurface ocean temperature and salinity profiles and objective analyses

Purpose

The EN4 dataset consists of two products: a) Observed subsurface ocean temperature and salinity profiles with data quality information, and b)Objective analyses formed from the profile data with uncertainty estimates.

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

Irregular

Used by challenges

• BlackSea - CH04 - Climate

Environmental matrix

• Marine water

Production mode

• Delayed

Visibility

• Use of open search engines, searching by name either the data provider or the characteristics

Policy visibility

• There is detailed information provided to understand data policy

Readyness

• Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

• Temperature of the water column

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Oceanographic geographical features

Processing level of characteristics

• Observation (raw, QC)

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online discovery and downloading services

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (P01)

• Temperature of the water body

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• Water column temperature

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Water column temperature and salinity

Service extent

• The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Unrestricted

Use limitation

Open and Free. No charge

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

The data will be used to calculate annual mean temperature trend at different depths for the past 100 years.

Begin date

1990-01-01

End date

2015-01-01 Before

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

monthly  year

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• netcdf ()

OnLine resource

Met Office Hadley Centre Catalogue ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

EN4 ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/en4/download-en4-1-1.html

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

File identifier

19064fe0-f7ce-4add-a573-5a449165313a XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

BlackSea - CH04 - Climate

Date stamp

2018-03-26T13:22:16Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0