Seawater temperature records for the UK Shelf - 16 - Cefas ScanFish - North & Celtic Seas

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Undulating profile data for temperature, salinity, fluorescence, ambient light, turbidity data for the top 120 m (approx.) of the water column. Accumulated data from a series of contracts looking at properties of seawater, investigating the extent of primary production and the existance of stratification and thermoclynes. Two cruises per year for 10 years. Data storage & processing constraints at the time of collection means that locations (individual records are notionally 4m apart horizontally) are likely to be accurate to the order of meters (this includes the assumptions of constant towing speed). Timings are based on an accurate start time and the recording of data at 1s intervals. The multiple sources are described in 17 separate metadata entries under the same Title, e.g. Seawater temperature records for the UK Shelf - 15 - RV Cefas Endeavour FerryBox Monitoring System. These data have been described in detail via the following publication. Morris, D. J., Pinnegar, J. K., Maxwell, D. L., Dye, S. R., Fernand, L. J., Flatman, S., Williams, O. J., and Rogers, S. I.: Over 10 million seawater temperature records for the United Kingdom Continental Shelf between 1880 and 2014 from 17 Cefas (United Kingdom government) marine data systems, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 27–51, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-27-2018, 2018.