Sediment echosounder raw data (Atlas Parasound P70 echosounder entire dataset) of RV MARIA S. MERIAN during cruise MSM125

Sediment echosounder data using Atlas Parasound P70 echosounder was recorded during MARIA S. MERIAN cruise MSM125. The expedition took place during 30.01.2024 - 06.02.2024 from Algeciras (Spain) to Funchal (Portugal) in the Northern Atlantic. Data were recorded in the Moroccan and Portuguese EEZs and outside. MSM125 was a short cruise of only four working days to test deep-sea research devices developed at MARUM at the University of Bremen and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen (MPIMM), as part of the Cluster of Excellence The Ocean Floor - Earth's Uncharted Interface in in-situ operation so that they can be used in future research expeditions. During the cruise, the hull-mounted parametric sub-bottom profiler ATLAS PARASOUND P70 was used to conduct information about the sediment sub-surface and water column. Its function is based on the parametric effect of the non-linear relation of pressure and density during sonar propagation. The system utilizes two high-intensity waves with frequencies of 18-20 kHz (primary high frequency; PHF) and 22-24 kHz to create a secondary high (about 40-42 kHz) and secondary low frequency (SLF) of about 4 kHz. The SLF can record sub-bottom structures, whereas the PHF can image the water column and potential gas bubbles, plankton, fish or nepheloid layers within. The transducer array has an opening angle of 4° by 5°, which corresponds to a footprint size of about 7% of the water depth. Data acquisition was performed using measured real-time values of surface sound velocity and a static sound velocity profile of 1500 m/s. Using the software ATLAS PARASTORE, data was displayed and stored as raw .asd files and additional .ps3 and auxiliary files for certain depth windows. The sub-bottom profiler was operating almost continuously with a desired frequency of 4 kHz for SLF and a desired frequency of 18 kHz for PHF.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.974135
PID https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.36387
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.48433/cr_msm125
Related Identifier References https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.cfe66162-64d9-4cfd-a209-eb591954b5c5
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.974586
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.974135
Provenance
Creator Römer, Miriam ORCID logo; Marcon, Yann ORCID logo; Borowski, Christian ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 390741603 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/390741603 EXC 2077: The Ocean Floor – Earth's Uncharted Interface
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 4929 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-16.158W, 32.818S, -6.290E, 35.909N); Gulf of Cádiz, Atlantic Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2024-01-30T12:27:44Z
Temporal Coverage End 2024-02-06T02:30:55Z