A bathymetric compilation around the South Orkney Islands, 1987-2017

• Main Author: Abrahamsen, E. Povl
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation 2019
• Subjects: "EARTH SCIENCE","LAND SURFACE","TOPOGRAPHY"; "EARTH SCIENCE","OCEANS","BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY","BATHYMETRY"; "EARTH SCIENCE","OCEANS","BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY","SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY"; "EARTH SCIENCE","OCEANS","BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY","WATER DEPTH"; "EARTH SCIENCE","OCEANS","BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY"; Bathymetry; Multibeam; South Orkney Islands; Orkney Passage; South Orkney Trough; Weddell Sea; Scotia Sea; Antarctic; Weddell; Alfred Wegener Institute; Antarc*; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/1158843c-d238-439a-ad42-9645f37ac582; https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01196

We present a new bathymetric compilation around the South Orkney Islands here defined by the following bounding box: 47 to 37 W, 63 to 59 S. This bathymetry grid was compiled from a variety of multibeam swath bathymetry data acquired during 46 different cruises (see lineage). The data is available a...