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Deep-Sea Research II 56 (2009) 977–985
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The AMT data management experience
Claudia Castellani Ã, Gwenae¨lle Moncoiffe´, Juan Brown
British Oceanographic Data Centre, Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street, Liverpool L3 5DA, Merseyside, UK
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Available online 7 November 2008 As the UK’s national marine data centre, a key responsibility of the British Oceanographic Data Centre
Keywords: (BODC) is to provide data management support for the scientific activities of complex multi-disciplinary
Atlantic Meridional Transect long-term research programmes. Since the initial cruise in 1995, the NERC funded Atlantic Meridional
Data processing Transect (AMT) project has undertaken 18 north–south transects of the Atlantic Ocean. As the project
Inventories has evolved there has been a steady growth in the number of participants, the volume