galway_obs_fluorometer eng UTF8 dataset service Data Requests Marine Institute Ireland +353 91 387 200 Rinville, Oranmore Galway Galway EIRE Ireland datarequests@marine.ie pointOfContact 2026-04-14 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) 4 column row vertical temporal SmartBay Observatory Fluorometer data 2015-09-30 creation erddap.marine.ie galway_obs_fluorometer Marine Institute Marine Institute http://data.marine.ie/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/ie.marine.data:dataset.3879 information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator Alan Berry; Conall O'Malley; Rob Thomas contributor The SmartBay Observatory in Galway Bay is an underwater observatory which uses cameras, probes and sensors to permit continuous and remote live underwater monitoring. It was installed in 2015 on the seafloor 1.5km off the coast of Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland at a depth of 20-25m. Underwater observatories allow ocean researchers unique real-time access to monitor ongoing changes in the marine environment. The Galway Bay Observatory is an important contribution by Ireland to the growing global network of real-time data capture systems deployed in the ocean. Data relating to the marine environment at the Galway Observatory site is transferred in real-time through a fibre optic telecommunications cable to the Marine Institute headquarters and then made publically available on the internet. The data includes a live video stream, the depth of the observatory node, the water temperature and salinity, and estimates of the chlorophyll and turbidity levels in the water which give an indication of the volume of phytoplankton and other particles, such as sediment, in the water. Maintenance take place on the observatory every 18 to 24 months. A WetLabs ECO-FLNTU is installed on the observatory infrastructure. It measures the fluorescence of the seawater to give an estimate of the volume of chlorophyll present (indicative of the amount of phytoplankton in the seawater) and it measures turbidity, or the 'cloudiness' of the seawater, caused by the presence of particles such as sediment from the seabed suspended in the water. The sensor is deployed on the EMSO Smartbay Cable End Equipment Node in Galway Bay in approx. 25m depth of water. The SmartBay Observatory was funded in part by a grant from Science Foundation Ireland under Grant Number 12/RI/2331. Ongoing operation of the observatory is funded by the Marine Institute and Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. Marine Institute Marine Institute http://data.marine.ie/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/ie.marine.data:dataset.3879 information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information pointOfContact Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies Concentration of suspended \nparticulate material in the water column theme Marine Institute project longitude latitude depth time mass_concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water sea_water_turbidity theme CF Standard Name Table v72 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Marine Institute largerWorkCitation project Unidata Common Data Model Point largerWorkCitation project eng geoscientificInformation 1 SmartBay Observatory Fluorometer data 2015-09-30 creation Marine Institute Marine Institute http://data.marine.ie/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/ie.marine.data:dataset.3879 information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator Alan Berry; Conall O'Malley; Rob Thomas contributor The SmartBay Observatory in Galway Bay is an underwater observatory which uses cameras, probes and sensors to permit continuous and remote live underwater monitoring. It was installed in 2015 on the seafloor 1.5km off the coast of Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland at a depth of 20-25m. Underwater observatories allow ocean researchers unique real-time access to monitor ongoing changes in the marine environment. The Galway Bay Observatory is an important contribution by Ireland to the growing global network of real-time data capture systems deployed in the ocean. Data relating to the marine environment at the Galway Observatory site is transferred in real-time through a fibre optic telecommunications cable to the Marine Institute headquarters and then made publically available on the internet. The data includes a live video stream, the depth of the observatory node, the water temperature and salinity, and estimates of the chlorophyll and turbidity levels in the water which give an indication of the volume of phytoplankton and other particles, such as sediment, in the water. Maintenance take place on the observatory every 18 to 24 months. A WetLabs ECO-FLNTU is installed on the observatory infrastructure. It measures the fluorescence of the seawater to give an estimate of the volume of chlorophyll present (indicative of the amount of phytoplankton in the seawater) and it measures turbidity, or the 'cloudiness' of the seawater, caused by the presence of particles such as sediment from the seabed suspended in the water. The sensor is deployed on the EMSO Smartbay Cable End Equipment Node in Galway Bay in approx. 25m depth of water. ERDDAP tabledap 1 tight ERDDAPtabledapDatasetQueryAndAccess https://erddap.marine.ie/erddap/tabledap/galway_obs_fluorometer ERDDAP:tabledap ERDDAP-tabledap ERDDAP's tabledap service (a flavor of OPeNDAP) for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .graph, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. download SmartBay Observatory Fluorometer data 2015-09-30 creation Marine Institute Marine Institute http://data.marine.ie/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/ie.marine.data:dataset.3879 information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator Alan Berry; Conall O'Malley; Rob Thomas contributor The SmartBay Observatory in Galway Bay is an underwater observatory which uses cameras, probes and sensors to permit continuous and remote live underwater monitoring. It was installed in 2015 on the seafloor 1.5km off the coast of Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland at a depth of 20-25m. Underwater observatories allow ocean researchers unique real-time access to monitor ongoing changes in the marine environment. The Galway Bay Observatory is an important contribution by Ireland to the growing global network of real-time data capture systems deployed in the ocean. Data relating to the marine environment at the Galway Observatory site is transferred in real-time through a fibre optic telecommunications cable to the Marine Institute headquarters and then made publically available on the internet. The data includes a live video stream, the depth of the observatory node, the water temperature and salinity, and estimates of the chlorophyll and turbidity levels in the water which give an indication of the volume of phytoplankton and other particles, such as sediment, in the water. Maintenance take place on the observatory every 18 to 24 months. A WetLabs ECO-FLNTU is installed on the observatory infrastructure. It measures the fluorescence of the seawater to give an estimate of the volume of chlorophyll present (indicative of the amount of phytoplankton in the seawater) and it measures turbidity, or the 'cloudiness' of the seawater, caused by the presence of particles such as sediment from the seabed suspended in the water. The sensor is deployed on the EMSO Smartbay Cable End Equipment Node in Galway Bay in approx. 25m depth of water. OPeNDAP 1 tight OPeNDAPDatasetQueryAndAccess https://erddap.marine.ie/erddap/tabledap/galway_obs_fluorometer OPeNDAP:OPeNDAP OPeNDAP An OPeNDAP service for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. download SmartBay Observatory Fluorometer data 2015-09-30 creation Marine Institute Marine Institute http://data.marine.ie/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/ie.marine.data:dataset.3879 information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator Alan Berry; Conall O'Malley; Rob Thomas contributor The SmartBay Observatory in Galway Bay is an underwater observatory which uses cameras, probes and sensors to permit continuous and remote live underwater monitoring. It was installed in 2015 on the seafloor 1.5km off the coast of Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland at a depth of 20-25m. Underwater observatories allow ocean researchers unique real-time access to monitor ongoing changes in the marine environment. The Galway Bay Observatory is an important contribution by Ireland to the growing global network of real-time data capture systems deployed in the ocean. Data relating to the marine environment at the Galway Observatory site is transferred in real-time through a fibre optic telecommunications cable to the Marine Institute headquarters and then made publically available on the internet. The data includes a live video stream, the depth of the observatory node, the water temperature and salinity, and estimates of the chlorophyll and turbidity levels in the water which give an indication of the volume of phytoplankton and other particles, such as sediment, in the water. Maintenance take place on the observatory every 18 to 24 months. A WetLabs ECO-FLNTU is installed on the observatory infrastructure. It measures the fluorescence of the seawater to give an estimate of the volume of chlorophyll present (indicative of the amount of phytoplankton in the seawater) and it measures turbidity, or the 'cloudiness' of the seawater, caused by the presence of particles such as sediment from the seabed suspended in the water. The sensor is deployed on the EMSO Smartbay Cable End Equipment Node in Galway Bay in approx. 25m depth of water. ERDDAP Subset 1 tight ERDDAP_Subset https://erddap.marine.ie/erddap/tabledap/galway_obs_fluorometer.subset search Subset Web page to facilitate selecting subsets of the dataset download physicalMeasurement instrument_id String Instrument Id time double time of measurement fluorescence_wavelength int Fluorescence Wavelength chl_count int Chl Count chlorophyll double nominal chlorophyll-a concentration from manufacturer's calibration turbidity_wavelength int Turbidity Wavelength ntu_count int Ntu Count turbidity double turbidity of the water thermistor int Thermistor clock_date String Clock Date clock_time String Clock Time Data Requests Marine Institute Ireland +353 91 387 200 Rinville, Oranmore Galway Galway EIRE Ireland datarequests@marine.ie distributor OPeNDAP DAP/2.0 https://erddap.marine.ie/erddap/tabledap/galway_obs_fluorometer.html order Data Subset Form ERDDAP's version of the OPeNDAP .html web page for this dataset. Specify a subset of the dataset and download the data via OPeNDAP or in many different file types. download https://erddap.marine.ie/erddap/tabledap/galway_obs_fluorometer.graph order Make-A-Graph Form ERDDAP's Make-A-Graph .html web page for this dataset. Create an image with a map or graph of a subset of the data. mapDigital dataset 2020-04-20: Metadata attributes enhanced following OceanSITES and SeaDataNet attribute and vocabulary requirements. 2020-05-13: Metadata attributes enhanced following Copernicus Marine In Situ NetCDF format manual. This record was created from dataset metadata by ERDDAP Version 2.14