Raw acoustic data collected by ship-borne EK60 echo sounder in Scotia Sea (Mar - Apr 2009)

Acoustic backscatter data were collected on board the RRS James
Clark Ross (cruise JR200) 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 autumn (March - April) of
2009. Within these transects, there were a series of stations at
which dedicated acoustic transects were run, although the EK60 was
run continuously throughout the cruise. JR200 was the third 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).