LIFECO Database

This database has been created to collect and distribute both historic and newly developed datasets for utilization in other work packages of the LIFECO programme: LInking hydrographic Frontal activity to ECOsystem dynamics in the North Sea and Skagerrak - importance to fish stock recruitment.

This work package will:
1) build and maintain a database site with consistent and validated data
2) define a data exchange system
3) develop a data request system
4) make a connection between the database, the GIS tools (WP8) and other work packages

The data collected within the project consists of many different spatial and temporal locations and periods including data from historical databases. The data comprises hydrological data, water column characteristics such as salinity, temperature and nutrient concentrations as well as, plankton and fish distribution and diet composition data from field programs and 3-D modelling exercises. These data will be processed using mathematical models in order to produce spatial time slices of oceanographic regimes.

All data will be validated prior to inclusion in the database.