Date (Publication)

2014-10

Citation identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13606901

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Heriot Watt University	Dr Kate Gormley	not available	Point of contact
Heriot-Watt University	Prof. J Murray Roberts	not available	Principal investigator
National Oceanography Centre	Dr Jeff Polton	not available	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Chemistry

• Hydrodynamics

• NGDC Deposited Data

• Gases

• Oil

dataCentre

• NGDC Deposited Data

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

intellectualPropertyRights

Other constraints

Either : (i) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under license; and / or (ii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted before the dataset can be provided to, or accessed by, BGS staff or external clients. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant access restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (IPR@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints

Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section ( ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.

Language

English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

NORTH SEA [id=2001452]

British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision

Begin date

1975

End date

2011

Supplemental Information

NERC grant NE/L008165/1. User guide documentation and UKBenthos database structure provided in the Documentation folder. BGS data is not provided within this dataset, this data is available through the BGS web map services as linked to in the User Manual.

Unique resource identifier

WGS 84 / UTM zone 31N (EPSG::32631)

Distribution format

Name	Version

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/f9c724ab-006b-4256-8553-928f23736ab2	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

These data and working instructions have been prepared by Dr Kate Gormley (Heriot-Watt University) as part of the North Sea Interactive Project awarded to Heriot-Watt University's Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Biotechnology, the British Geological Survey and the National Oceanography Centre. The project team comprised Prof. J.Murray Roberts (Principal Investigator), Dr Kate Gormley, Dr Lea-Anne Henry (HWU), Ms Evelyn Lowndes (BGS), Mr Dave Long (BGS), Dr Dan Harries (HWU), Dr Jeff Polton (NOC) and Dr Paul Kingston (HWU). Datasets include: Bottom and surface salinity and temperature - C NOC POLCOMS (Shapefile) Holt et al. (2012). Multi©\decadal variability and trends in the temperature of the northwest European continental shelf: a model©\data synthesis. Progress in Oceanography, 106, 96©\117, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2012.08.001 Daily mean model temperature, salinity and elevation data for the northeast Atlantic are archived by BODC. Post processing by J Polton. Spring and neap bed stress ¨C NOC (Shapefile) Polton, J.A. (2014), Tidally induced mean flow over bathymetric features: A contemporary challenge for high©\resolution wide©\area models. Geophys. & Astrophys. Fluid Dyn., doi:10.1080/03091929.2014.952726 Benthos and Chemical ¨C UKBenthos database (Geodatabase, Shapefile, Excel) Adapted from UKBenthos Database, updated January 2014: UKBenthos Version 5 Jan 2014 [accessed: February 2014] http://www.oilandgasuk.co.uk/knowledgecentre/uk_benthos_database.cfm Base layers (Blocks, coastline, quadrants, fields) ¨C DECC (Geodatabase, Shapefile, Excel) DECC, Current UKCS data (updated 6 October 2014) [accessed: October 2014] Terms of Use http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open©\government©\licence/ Centre survey points ¨C UKBenthos (Shapefile) (these may not be consistent with the CDA Ltd platform data) Adapted from UKBenthos Database, updated January 2014: UKBenthos Version 5Jan 2014 [accessed: February 2014] http://www.oilandgasuk.co.uk/knowledgecentre/uk_benthos_database.cfm Platforms ¨C OSPAR Commission (Shapefile and Excel) OSPAR Commission, Inventory of Offshore Installations [October 2014], http://www.ospar.org/data Terms of Use http://www.ospar.org/html_documents/ospar/html/ospar_data_conditions_of_use.pdf

Metadata

File identifier

2e3d092f-7221-0bd2-e054-002128a47908 XML

Metadata language

English

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-07-05

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey		enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13606901