Raw acoustic data collected by ship-borne EK60 echo sounder in Scotia Sea (Jan - Feb 2008)

Acoustic backscatter data were collected on board the RRS James
Clark Ross (cruise JR177) as part of the Discovery 2010 programme.
Data were collected using a Simrad EK60 echo sounder. This cruise
ran two transects (Stanley to Signy and Signy to South Georgia)
across the Scotia Sea in the austral summer (January - February) of
2008. Within these transects, there were a series of stations at
which acoustic transects were run. The EK60 was run continuously
throughout the cruise. JR177 was the second of three cruises which
comprise the field studies of the Discovery 2010 programme. The
programme was designed to analyse interactions in the Southern Ocean
ecosystem. The raw data files (Simrad .raw format) are held by the
Polar Data Centre (PDC) at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).