Water column acoustic data collected from 2014-09-27 to 2014-11-02 during cruise JR303 in the Atlantic Ocean

• Main Authors: Ariza, Alejandro, Fielding, Sophie
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Data Centre; British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council; Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK. 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; "OCEANS","AQUATIC SCIENCES","FISHERIES",; "OCEANS","MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING",; "OCEANS","OCEAN ACOUSTICS","ACOUSTIC SCATTERING",; "BIOSPHERE","ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS","BIOMASS",; echo sounder ek60; micronekton; Southern Ocean; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/77fe7925-ba00-4771-8f80-dbc9cae61e3b; https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01030

Water column acoustic data collected in the Atlantic Ocean (from 2014-09-27 to 2014-11-02) during cruise JR303. Multi-frequency (38,120 and 200 kHz) acoustic data were collected using a Simrad EK60 echo sounder. The dataset comprises of calibrated and processed 38 kHz volume backscattering strength (Sv, dB re 1m-1). Data processing was undertaken using Echoview and Matlab. Processed netCDF data files are made available as part of the NERC Southern Ocean Network of Acoustics (SONA) and the EU MESOPP project.