Water column acoustic data collected from 2016-01-21 to 2016-02-21 during cruise JR15004 in the Scotia Sea

• Main Authors: Fielding, Sophie, Ariza, Alejandro
• 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; Scotia Sea; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/fad1e73b-b7cb-4728-a8f9-2e3cce5aef90; https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01034

Water column acoustic data collected in the Scotia Sea (from 2016-01-21 to 2016-02-21) during cruise JR15004. 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.