Gridded EM122 multibeam-echosounder bathymetry of cruise M111

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Bathymetry based on data recorded during M111 between 10.10.2014 and 01.11.2014 in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The aim of the cruise was to quantify the deep geometry and architecture of the Calabria subduction zone and Ionian Sea lithosphere and to shed light on the nature of the Ionian Sea with OBS/OBH and deep sea seismics. Additionally the M111 cruise formed the core of an ambitious investigation covering the Ionian Sea and island of Sicily. CI Citation: Paul Wintersteller (seafloor-imaging@marum.de) as responsible party for bathymetry. Description of processed data sources: During the cruise M111 the Kongsberg EM122 multibeam echosounder with a nominal sounding frequency of 12 kHz was utilized. 288 beams (and up to 864 soundings in equidistant and dual swath mode) are formed for each ping with a 1°(Tx)/2°(Rx) footprint while the seafloor is detected using amplitude and phase information for each beam sounding. For further information consult https://www.km.kongsberg.com/. The EM122 was recording during the deployment of the OBH/OBS, during seismic surveys and during transits. Responsible person during this cruise / PI: Ingo Klaucke (iklaucke@geomar.de). Description of data processing: Postprocessing and products were conducted by the Seafloor-Imaging & Mapping group of MARUM, responsible person: Paul Wintersteller (seafloor-imaging@marum.de). The open source software MB-System suite (Caress, D.W., and D.N. Chayes, MB-System Version 5.5, open source software distributed from the MBARI and L-DEO web sites, 2000-2012.) was utilized for this purpose. A tide correction was applied, based on the Oregon State University (OSU) tidal prediction software (OTPS) that is retrievable through MB-System. The CTD measurements taken during the M111 cruise were sufficient to represent the changes in the sound velocity throughout the study area. Further roll, pitch and heave corrections were not applied for the M111 data. Bathymetric data has been manually cleaned for existing artefacts with mbeditviz. NetCDF (GMT) grids of the product and the statistics were created using mbgrid. No total propagated uncertainty (TPU) has been calculated to gather vertical or horizontal accuracy. The currently published bathymetric grid of the cruise has a resolution of 70 m. A higher resolution is, at least partly, achievable. The grid extended with _num represents a raster dataset with the statistical number of beams/depths taken into account to create the depth of the cell. The extended _sd-grid contains the standard deviation for each cell. All grids produced are retrievable through the PANGAEA database (www.pangaea.de). Chief Scientist: H. Kopp hkopp@geomar.de CR: https://www.tib.eu/de/suchen/id/awi%3Adoi~10.2312%252Fcr_m111/ CSR: http://www.bsh.de/aktdat/dod/fahrtergebnis/2014/20140277.htm A special thanks goes to the PIs and watch keeper of the hydroacoustic systems during M111: Marzia Rovere, Ingo Klaucke, Anne Krabbenhoeft, Marc-André Gutscher

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.893205
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.12.020
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.2312/cr_m111
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.893103
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2018.04.006
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.893205
Provenance
Creator dos Santos Ferreira, Christian ORCID logo; Wintersteller, Paul ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University Bremen
Publication Year 2018
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 12 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (15.090 LON, 37.500 LAT)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-10-10T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-11-01T00:00:00Z