Multibeam bathymetry processed data (EM 120 echosounder dataset compilation) of RV METEOR & RV MARIA S. MERIAN during cruise M76/1 & MSM19/1c, Namibian continental slope

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The data contain bathymetric data from the Namibia continental slope. The data were acquired on R/V Meteor research expeditions M76/1 in 2008, and R/V Maria S. Merian expedition MSM19/1c in 2011. The purpose of the data was the exploration of the Namibian continental slope and espressially the investigation of large seafloor depressions. The bathymetric data were acquired with the 191-beam 12 kHz Kongsberg EM120 system. The data were processed using the public software package MBSystems. The loaded data were cleaned semi-automatically and manually, removing outliers and other erroneous data. Initial velocity fields were adjusted to remove artifacts from the data. Gridding was done in 10x10 m grid cells for the MSM19-1c dataset and 50x50 m for the M76 dataset using the Gaussian Weighted Mean algorithm.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932434
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009548
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.932434
Provenance
Creator Wenau, Stefan ORCID logo; Spieß, Volkhard; Zabel, Matthias ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 32 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (14.503W, -33.907S, 18.434E, -22.941N); off Namibia
Temporal Coverage Begin 2008-04-12T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-10-21T00:00:00Z