A bathymetric compilation around the South Orkney Islands, 1987-2017

We present a new bathymetric compilation around the South Orkney Islands here defined by the following bounding box: 47 to 37 W, 63 to 59 S.

This bathymetry grid was compiled from a variety of multibeam swath bathymetry data acquired during 46 different cruises (see lineage). The data is available as a grid of approximately 100 m resolution in a GMT-compatible (2-D) NetCDF format using geographic coordinates on the WGS84 datum.

Three versions of the grid are available: the first one shows only swath bathymetry data while the second and third have been merged with the global compilations from the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO), GEBCO_2014 (version 20150318) and GEBCO_2019, respectively.

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Funding was provided by the NERC grants NE/K012843/1 and NE/N018095/1 as well as national capability

Alternate title: Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01196

Date (Publication): 2020-01-29

Citation identifier: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01196

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Custodian
UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation	Abrahamsen, E.	pdc@bas.ac.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Keywords

NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Topography > Landforms
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Bathymetry
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Seafloor Topography
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Water Depth

BAS Free-text keywords

Bathymetry
Multibeam
Orkney Passage
Scotia Sea
South Orkney Islands
South Orkney Trough
Wedell Sea

Use limitation: This data is covered by a UK Open Government Licence ( http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)

Further by downloading this data the user acknowledges that they agree with the NERC data policy ( http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy.asp), and the following conditions:

1. To cite the data

Abrahamsen, E. P. (2019). A bathymetric compilation around the South Orkney Islands, 1987-2017 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/1158843c-d238-439a-ad42-9645f37ac582

2. The user recognizes the limitations of data and will not use this data for navigation purposes. Use of the data is at the users'' own risk, and there is no warranty as to the quality or accuracy of any data, or the fitness of the data for your intended use. The data are not necessarily fully quality assured and cannot be expected to be free from measurement uncertainty, systematic biases, or errors of interpretation or analysis, and may include inaccuracies in error margins quoted with the data.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: This data is covered by a UK Open Government Licence ( http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)

Further by downloading this data the user acknowledges that they agree with the NERC data policy ( http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy.asp), and the following conditions:

1. To cite the data

Abrahamsen, E. P. (2019). A bathymetric compilation around the South Orkney Islands, 1987-2017 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/1158843c-d238-439a-ad42-9645f37ac582

2. The user recognizes the limitations of data and will not use this data for navigation purposes. Use of the data is at the users'' own risk, and there is no warranty as to the quality or accuracy of any data, or the fitness of the data for your intended use. The data are not necessarily fully quality assured and cannot be expected to be free from measurement uncertainty, systematic biases, or errors of interpretation or analysis, and may include inaccuracies in error margins quoted with the data.

Distance: 100 m

Language: English

Topic category

Elevation
Geoscientific information
Oceans

Begin date: 1987-01-01

End date: 2017-12-31

Reference system identifier: OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Distribution format

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
http		GET DATA

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification: INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines

Date

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Statement: Quality control was undertaken manually to remove any outliers in the source datasets. This involved cleaning much of the raw data using the "mbedit" program from MB-system. For data processed in this way, edit files have been submitted to the Polar Data Centre. In source files that were ingested as text files, outliers were manually removed.

To verify the accuracy of the resulting dataset, bottom depths were compared against CTD casts on cruise JR16005, excluding casts that were performed when the ship was moving and those where the CTD did not get within altimeter range of the bottom. Bottom depths were calculated from the CTD altimeter when near the bottom, and these were compared against the gridded dataset. On 81 casts, the median difference between the CTD-derived depths and gridded depths was 4.1 m with a standard deviation of 18.9 m. This compares favourably with GEBCO_2014, which had a median offset of 4.6 m with a standard deviation of 73.4 m, and GEBCO_2019, which has a median offset of 0.5 m but a standard deviation of 89.4 m.