Dataset: Acoustic data from two subsurface moorings deployed near Palmer Deep Canyon from January to March 2020

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.872729.1Version 1 (2022-04-12)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator: Joshua Kohut (University of Delaware)

Co-Principal Investigator: George Cutter (NOAA Fisheries Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division)

Co-Principal Investigator: Christian Reiss (NOAA Fisheries Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division)

Contact: Katherine Hudson ()

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Collaborative Research: Physical Mechanisms Driving Food Web Focusing in Antarctic Biological Hotspots (Project SWARM)


Abstract

This dataset contains acoustic data from two subsurface moorings deployed near Palmer Deep Canyon from January to March 2020.

Each mooring has three data files associated with it:
1) an "_Sv" file containing the processed acoustic return from the mooring in volume backscattering strength in decibels (dB) from the 120 kHz narrowband echosounder in a matrix where rows represent single pings and columns indicate depth bins;
2) a "_dp" file representing the depth (in meters) of the depth bins for each return with the same dimensions as the "_Sv" file; and
3) a "_tm" file containing a vector of timestamps corresponding to each ping in seconds since Jan 1 1970 (POSIX), where the length of the vector is equivalent to the number of rows in each matrix.

These files are all available in the attached "all_moorings_files.tar.gz" file.


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Results

Hudson, K., Oliver, M. J., Kohut, J., Cohen, J. H., Dinniman, M. S., Klinck, J. M., Reiss, C. S., Cutter, G. R., Statscewich, H., Bernard, K. S., & Fraser, W. (2022). Subsurface Eddy Facilitates Retention of Simulated Diel Vertical Migrators in a Biological Hotspot. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127(5). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jc017482
Methods

Cutter, G. R., Reiss, C. S., Nylund, S., & Watters, G. M. (2022). Antarctic Krill Biomass and Flux Measured Using Wideband Echosounders and Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers on Submerged Moorings. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.784469