11BU RV Belgica CTD profiles data

This datasets is a summary of the CTD profiles measured with the RV Belgica. It provides general meta-information such as the campaign code, the date of measurement and the geographical information. An important information is the profile quality flag that describes the validity of the data. A quality flag = 2 means the data is generally good although some outliers can still be present. A quality flag = 4 means the data should not be trusted. 1 meter binned data can be download on the SeaDataNet CDI portal (enter the cruise_id in the search bar) ONLY for the good quality profiles. Full acquisition frequency datasets are available on request to BMDC.

Date (Creation): 2025-04-15

Date (Revision): 2025-05-12

Date (Publication): 2026-10-21

Title: Digital Object Identifier

Date (Creation): 2016-05-19

Code: https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2940

Citation identifier: http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / bmdc.be:dataset:2940
Belgian Marine Data Centre

Other citation details: This dataset is composed of the following sources: de Ville de Goyet Nicolas (n.d.). 11BU RV Belgica CTD profiles.

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)	bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)	bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Author
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)	info@naturalsciences.be	Owner
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)	info@naturalsciences.be	Publisher

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Oceanographic geographical features

Theme

Marine essentials
Federal government
Reporting INSPIRE
marine data

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1

Marine Regions

INSPIRE Registry: Priority Datasets

Directive 2008/56/EC

NERC Vocabulary Server - S04

Marine Regions

Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: No conditions apply to access and use

Other constraints: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: No limitations on public access.

Use limitation: No conditions apply to use.

Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Language: English

Topic category

Inland waters
Oceans

Extent type code: Yes

Title: Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ)

Date

Code: North Sea

Extent type code: Yes

Title: Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ)

Date

Code: French part of the North Sea

Extent type code: Yes

Title: Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ)

Date

Code: United Kingdom part of the North Sea

Extent type code: Yes

Title: Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ)

Date

Code: Belgian Coast

Extent type code: Yes

Title: Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ)

Date

Code: Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone

gml32:beginPosition: 2022-01-27

Reference system identifier: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258

Distribution format

Name	Version
application/xml	Unknown

Distributor

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

Distributor format

Name	Version
application/xml	Unknown

Transfer size: 0.267749

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WMS	https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/od_nature/ows?version=1.3.0&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities	od_nature:ctd_overview

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
DOI	https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2940	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: Yes

Statement: The data is logged with the dedicated SeaBird software on board the RV Belgica. After the data transfer to shore, the profiles are converted and quality checked with a custom notebook procedure. The notebook uses the SeaBird software capabilities and clean the profiles with outliers removal and noise reduction. The manual checks are the good functionning of the CTD pump and the global ranges of the different measured parameters. A quality flag is attributed to each cast to describe the general quality of the profile (2 = good quality, 3 = suspect data, 4= bad data).

Metadata

File identifier: bmdc.be:dataset:2940 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-10-21T16:13:20.234Z

Metadata standard name: Geographic information -- Metadata

Metadata standard version: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
Dutch; Flemish
French
English
German

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