Menai Strait turbidity and other co-variate surveillance
The Menai Strait, separating the Isle of Anglesey from the north coast of Wales is part of the Menai Strait and Conwy Bay Special Area of Conservation. Monitoring of physical parameters in the strait, including water turbidity, has been carried out on a sporadic basis for the past 40 years. These parameters are of importance to the biological communities for which the Menai Strait and Conwy Bay has been designated and help to inform assessments of the condition of those communities and the effectiveness of management measures to conserve them. The observations of physical parameters in the strait have shown large, long-term fluctuations in turbidity. The aim of this project was to establish an automatic system for continuous monitoring of water turbidity, and other relevant physical parameters including temperature, salinity and meteorological variables.
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- Ansawdd
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- System Cyfeirio Gofodol
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- Cyfyngiadau
- Cynnal a chadw
- Metadata
Dull adnabod
- Dynodydd
- NRW_DS87115
- Teitl Amgen
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- Gwylio cymylogrwydd a chydamrywiannau eraill yn y Fenai
- Marine Monitoring Report No. 22
- Laith Metadata
- English
- Datganiad
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Using an automated system for continuous monitoring, water turbidity, temperature and salinity were measured, along with meteorological variables (wind speed and direction, wind gust speed, atmospheric pressure, air temperature, rainfall). A Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD) sensor, fitted with Optical Backscatter (OBS) sensor measuring backscattered light at 880nm was used for oceanographic measurements. Weather stations in Menai Bridge and Caernarfon airport provided meteorological data. CTD monitoring was carried out at one fixed site at the Low Water Springs mark off the end of the rock jetty on Ynys Faelog in the Menai Strait. Meteorological data came from weather stations in Menai Bridge and Caernarfon airport. Automatically collected data was logged every 5 minutes. The recorded observations were collected from 2003-2005. Instrument calibration data is included, and described in detail in CCW Marine Monitoring Report No. 22. Secchi depth measurements have been made sporadically in the strait for the last 40 years (Lumb, 1989,1990; Birkett and Maggs, 2001, Kratzer et al., 2003). These show that there was a steady decrease in water clarity in the strait between the early 1960's and the early 1980's, but that since then, clarity has been improving so that Secchi depths are more or less back to the levels they were 40 years ago.
- Dyddiad cyfeirnod y set ddata (Cyhoeddiad)
- 2006-02-28
Ystod amser
- Dyddiad cychwyn
- 2003-03-01
- Dyddiad gorffen
- 2005-12-31
- Categori pwnc
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- Oceans
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Dosbarthiad
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Dataset is comprised of a series of Excel spreadsheets: CTD calibration data files, CTD and Meteorological data daily averages compiled for 2004 and 2005. Hourly averaged CTD data for 2003, 2004, 2005. Raw Meterological data for 2004 and 2005. Raw CTD data for 2003, 2004, 2005
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Ansawdd
Ansawdd Data
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- Dataset
- Datganiad
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Using an automated system for continuous monitoring, water turbidity, temperature and salinity were measured, along with meteorological variables (wind speed and direction, wind gust speed, atmospheric pressure, air temperature, rainfall). A Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD) sensor, fitted with Optical Backscatter (OBS) sensor measuring backscattered light at 880nm was used for oceanographic measurements. Weather stations in Menai Bridge and Caernarfon airport provided meteorological data. CTD monitoring was carried out at one fixed site at the Low Water Springs mark off the end of the rock jetty on Ynys Faelog in the Menai Strait. Meteorological data came from weather stations in Menai Bridge and Caernarfon airport. Automatically collected data was logged every 5 minutes. The recorded observations were collected from 2003-2005. Instrument calibration data is included, and described in detail in CCW Marine Monitoring Report No. 22. Secchi depth measurements have been made sporadically in the strait for the last 40 years (Lumb, 1989,1990; Birkett and Maggs, 2001, Kratzer et al., 2003). These show that there was a steady decrease in water clarity in the strait between the early 1960's and the early 1980's, but that since then, clarity has been improving so that Secchi depths are more or less back to the levels they were 40 years ago.
Allweddeiriau
Allweddair
- Math
- Theme
Dyfyniad
- Dyddiad (Cyhoeddiad)
- 2008-06-01
Allweddair
Allweddair
- SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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- Habitat characterisation
- Temperature of the water column
- Salinity of the water column
- Math
- Theme
Dyfyniad
- Dyddiad (Adolygu)
- 2021-01-06
System Cyfeirio Gofodol
Cynnwys
Gwybodaeth Cynnwys
Proffil CNC
Elfennau CNC
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Menai Strait turbidity and other co-variate surveillance
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Metadata
Metadata
- Dynodydd Ffeil
- 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-3837313135 XML
- Laith Metadata
- English
- Math o adnodd
- Dataset
- Dyddiad Metadata
- 2024-12-09T14:38:18.856Z
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