Daily acoustic presence of Antarctic blue whales within a 10 km radius of mooring AWI230-06, recorder AU0085, based on passive acoustic recordings in the Weddell Sea from March 2008 to December 2010 ...

• Main Authors: Thomisch, Karolin, El-Gabbas, Ahmed, Spiesecke, Stefanie, Boebel, Olaf
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: acoustic occurrence; Antarctic blue whales; automated detection; passive acoustic monitoring PAM; received levels; Southern Ocean; species distribution models; vocalizations; Weddell Sea; Identification; DATE/TIME; Sound pressure level; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Mooring long time; Passive acoustic recorder AURAL, Multi-Électronique, Model 2; ANT-XXIV/3; Polarstern; Antarc*; Antarctic; Balaenoptera musculus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.960102; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.960102

Acoustic presence data on Antarctic blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus intermedia) were obtained from passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) data collected at 66°01.13' S and 00°04.77' E, mooring AWI230-06, recorder AU0085, between March 2008 and December 2010. The passive acoustic recorder was of type AURAL (Autonomous Underwater Recorder for Acoustic Listening (AURAL; Model 2, Multi-Électronique) and attached to oceanographic deep-sea mooring AWI230-06 of the Hybrid Antarctic Float Observation System (HAFOS). It was deployed from March 2008 and December 2010, moored at a depth of 189 m and scheduled to record on a duty cycle of 5 min per 4 hours at a sample rate of 32,768 Hz. After recovery, the passive acoustic data were prepared for further analysis following the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for PAM data collected by the Ocean Acoustics Group of AWI according to Thomisch et al. (2023a, regarding definitions and terminology) and Thomisch et al. (2023b, with regard to data preparation procedures). Daily ...