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ICOS and LifeWatch observatory data: buoy data
Citable as data publication
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2015): ICOS and LifeWatch observatory data: buoy data. https://doi.org/10.14284/536
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
A set of buoys are maintained by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): two in the sluice dock (Ostend) and one at the C-power windfarm, on the Thornton Bank. All buoys are continuously measuring an array of environmental parameters. more

In conjunction with the research vessel RV Simon Stevin, the Thornthon measuring buoy is part of the oceanographic component of ICOS Belgium (The Integrated Carbon Observation System). The Thornton buoy carries sensors for both LifeWatch and ICOS. Management is organized as part of ICOS. ICOS is a European monitoring network consisting of a large number of observation systems for measuring greenhouse gasses. The observation systems are spread across Europe and consist of three major components: 1. An atmospheric component with high measurement towers 2. An ecosystem component with measurement towers that observe fluxes 3. An oceanographic component with observation systems on ships and buoys

Scope
Themes:
Physical > Currents - drift - dispersion - tracers, Physical > Hydrography (e.g. T,S) - near surface only, Physical > Optical measurements, Physical > Waves - swell
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Data, Marine Genomics, Oceanographic geographical features, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), ANE, Belgium, Oostende Harbour, Sluice Dock

Geographical coverage
ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions]
ANE, Belgium, Oostende Harbour, Sluice Dock [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
From 1 January 2006 on [In Progress]
Quasi continuous (< 1 min.)

Parameters
% Oxygen (O)
Air temperature
Alkalinity (pH)
Ammonia (NH3)
Aqueous carbon dioxide (CO2aq)
Carbondioxide (CO2) in gas
Chlorophyll
Free phosphate (PO43-)
Nitrate (NO3-)
Rainfall
Salinity
Silica (SiO2)
Solar radiation
Temperature in water
Tidal height TAW
Wind direction
Wind speed

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata creatordata manager

Related datasets
Child dataset:
VLIZ Thornton buoy 2018 CTD data, more

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Sensor platform
Metadatarecord created: 2016-03-29
Information last updated: 2021-11-19
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy