Vocabulary
ODATIS aggregation parameters and Essential Variable names
| URI | http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/OD1/current/ |
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| Description | Collection of terms used within the French Ocean Data and Services Cluster ODATIS for data discovery and product or dataset aggregation. Whenever applicable, Essential Variable terms are linked to the authoritative source of Essential Climate Ocean and Biodiversity Variable definitions maintained by the Global Observing System for Climate (GCOS), the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON). |
| Creator | ODATIS vocabulary governance |
| Modified | 2024-06-07 |
| Version Info | 8 |
| Identifier | OD1 |
| Register Manager | British Oceanographic Data Centre |
| Register Owner | ODATIS vocabulary governance |
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| ID ↑ | Preferred Label ↑ | Definition ↑ | Date ↑ |
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| AERO | Aerosols | Suspension of particles of condensed matter (liquid, solid, or mixed) in a carrier gas (usually air). Aerosols are important in the atmosphere as nuclei for the condensation of water droplets and ice crystals, as participants in various chemical cycles, and as absorbers and scatterers of solar radiation, thereby influencing the radiation budget of the earth-atmosphere system, which in turn influences the climate on the surface of the Earth. | 2023-09-28 |
| AIRTEMP | Air temperature | Variables associated with the determination of the air temperature near the Earth's surface. | 2023-10-10 |
| AIRPRES | Atmospheric pressure | Variables associated with the determination of the atmospheric pressure near the Earth's surface. | 2023-10-10 |
| BATHY | Bathymetry | Science and technology of measuring or estimating depth. Its aim is to determine the relief of the deep or coastal ocean. | 2023-09-28 |
| BENTHA | Benthic habitats | Marine benthic habitats are the bed of seas directly connected to the oceans, i.e. part of the continuous body of water which covers the greater part of the earth. | 2023-09-28 |
| BIOINFO | Bioinformatics | Interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex. | 2023-09-28 |
| BIOTOX | Biotoxins | Toxins are contaminants secreted by certain algae or phytoplankton; they are called phycotoxins or marine biotoxins. | 2023-10-10 |
| C02 | CO2 Carbonate system | The chemistry of carbon dioxide (DIC, TA, pCO2 and pH) in seawater where pH is expressed against Total, Seawater or Free scales. Includes water column and atmospheric measurements. | 2023-09-28 |
| CONT | Contaminants | Pollutants coming from human activities on land and in the sea, including antifoulants (Organometallic spicies concentration); Hydrocarbons (Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons); Polychlorinated biphenyls (Concentration of polychlorobiphenyls); Pesticides and biocides (Pesticide concentrations); Heavy metals (Metal concentrations, Inorganic chemical composition). | 2023-09-28 |
| CURR | Currents | Variables associated with the determination of the speed and direction of surface and subsuface seawater currents. | 2023-10-10 |
| DENS | Density | The mass per unit volume of a substance. | 2024-06-06 |
| DOM | Dissolved Organic Matter | The amount of dissolved organic matter (DOC, DON and CDOM) in seawater using water column measurements. | 2023-09-28 |
| DOXY | Dissolved oxygen | Variables associated with the determination of the amount of oxygen dissolved in seawater using water column measurements. | 2023-10-10 |
| FISH | Fish | This group incorporates all state variables pertaining to fish, such as abundance, biomass and fisheries data. | 2024-06-06 |
| FLUO | Fluorescence | The emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. | 2024-06-06 |
| GEOL | Geology | The marine geological science domain. | 2024-06-06 |
| HCORAL | Hard coral | Cover and composition of hard coral. | 2024-06-06 |
| HUMACT | Human activities | The domain documenting the activities of man that have an effect on the Earth System. | 2024-06-06 |
| HUMI | Humidity | The amount of water vapour (relative humidity, dew point temperature) in the atmosphere. | 2023-10-16 |
| INVER | Invertebrates | An animal lacking a vertebral column. | 2023-09-28 |
| MACALG | Macroalgal | Parameters pertaining to macroalgal. | 2024-06-06 |
| MANG | Mangrove | Cover and composition of mangrove. | 2024-06-06 |
| MTBM | Marine turtles, birds, mammals | This group incorporates all variables pertaining to marine turtles, birds,and mammals, including abundance, biomass, biological function and state of health. | 2024-06-06 |
| N2O | Nitrous oxide | Variables associated with the determination of the amount of nitrous oxide in seawater using water column and atmospheric measurements. | 2023-10-10 |
| NUTS | Nutrients | Variables associated with the determination of the amount of dissolved inorganic macronutrients (nitrate (NO3), phosphate (PO4), silicic acid (Si(OH)4), ammonium (NH4), nitrite (NO2)) in seawater using water column measurements. | 2023-10-10 |
| ACOUST | Ocean Acoustics | Scientific field of study pertaining to sound emission and propagation in the marine environment. This topic includes the measurement of sound characteristics and the information they provide in the fields of telluric and hydroclimatic risk, biodiversity inventory and evolution, and anthropic impact. | 2023-09-28 |
| COLOUR | Ocean colour | Spectral radiance emanating from the sun that is backscattered off the upper part of the oceanic water column, and which contains information on the properties of the water and its constituents. | 2023-09-28 |
| HEATCON | Ocean heat content | Study of the ocean content change from which the Earth Energy Imbalance can be inferred. Variables include the terms in the sea level budget equation. Different types of calculation based on absolute budgets or trends. | 2023-09-28 |
| PATHOGEN | Pathogenic organisms | Infectious agents (viruses, bacteria, parasites) considered as harmful, that could interact with the evolution of farming performances or cause enzootic disease. | 2023-09-28 |
| PHYTO | Phytoplankton | Photosynthesizing microscopic protists and bacteria that inhabit the upper sunlit layer of marine and fresh water bodies. | 2023-09-28 |
| PIGM | Pigments | Amount of photosynthetic pigments (chlorophyll, carotenoids, ...) in seawater using water column measurements. | 2023-10-03 |
| PRESS | Pressure | Depth below surface of the water body. | 2023-10-10 |
| RADFLX | Radiative flux | Variables associated with the determination of fluxes of radiation (downwelling and upwelling irradiance) in the atmosphere to and from the sea surface. | 2023-10-10 |
| RAIN | Rain | Variables associated with the determination of the amount of liquid and solid precipitations on the Earth's surface | 2023-10-10 |
| SAL | Salinity | Variables associated with the determination of seawater salinity. | 2023-10-10 |
| SEAICE | Sea ice | Variables associated with the determination of the amount and characterisation of sea ice. | 2023-10-10 |
| SEALVL | Sea surface height | The displacement of the water column surface from a fixed, stable reference, expressed as metres or pressure. | 2023-10-10 |
| SEATEMP | Sea temperature | Variables associated with the determination of seawater temperature. | 2023-10-10 |
| SGRAS | Seagrass | Parameters pertaining to seagrass. | 2024-06-06 |
| SEDFLUX | Sedimentary fluxes | Settling flux of particles (inorganic species, biological detritus, pigments, carbon, ...) in the water column. | 2023-10-03 |
| SEISM | Seismic | Parameters associated with determination of sub-floor structure based on the propogation of acoustic energy and acoustic imaging of the sea floor. | 2024-06-06 |
| SHORE | Shoreline | The distance over which the coast has moved due to a combination of factors; i.e., sea level rise, erosion, or sedimentation. | 2023-09-28 |
| SUSPMA | Suspended matter | Amount of particulate organic matter (turbidity) in seawater using water column measurements. | 2023-09-28 |
| TIDES | Tides | Multi-period movement of sea level, the main part of which is the astronomical tide, due to the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon on the rotating earth. | 2023-10-22 |
| TRACELE | Trace elements and their isotopes | An element whose dissolved concentration is between 50 and 0.05 micromoles per kilogram. Most are metals and can be referred to as trace metals. Specific names of trace elements may be entered as Detailed Variables | 2023-09-28 |
| TRANST | Transient tracers | Transient tracers are man-made chemical compounds released to the atmosphere at known quantities that can be used in the ocean to quantify ventilation, transit time distribution and transport time-scales. Measurement of transient tracers in the subsurface ocean thus provides information on the time-scales since the ocean was ventilated, i.e. in contact with the atmosphere. A combination of these tracers provide the means to constrain the transit time distribution (TTD) of a water-mass that allows inference of concentrations or fates of other transient compounds, such as anthropogenic carbon or nitrous oxide | 2023-09-28 |
| TURBID | Turbidity | Measurement of the degree of scattering of light in water, related to the amount of suspended material in the water. | 2023-09-28 |
| WAVES | Waves | Variables associated with the determination of surface waves on water bodies. | 2023-10-10 |
| WIND | Wind | Variables associated with the determination of the wind speed and direction near the Earth's surface. | 2023-10-10 |
| ZOO | Zooplankton | Zooplankton is the animal portion of the plankton; the animal community in marine and freshwater situations that floats free in the water, independent of the shore and the bottom, incapable of overcoming the speed of the surrounding currents and therefore moving with them. | 2023-09-28 |
