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  • We present here Topographic Parametric Sonar (TOPAS) acoustic sub-bottom profiler data acquired on RRS James Clark Ross JR298 cruise in 2015. Data are provided in SEG-Y format. This project was funded by UK Natural Environment Research Council Grant NE/J006548/1: Depositional patterns and records in sediment drifts off the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctica

  • We present extensive new bathymetric compilation over Anvers-Hugo Trough, Perrier Trough and Palmer Deep, here defined by the following bounding box: 66.15 to 64.0 W, 65.25 to 63.6 S. This bathymetry grid was compiled from a variety of different data sources including multibeam swath bathymetry collected from scientific cruises undertaken by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, or acquired during RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, HMS Protector and RV Maurice Ewing expeditions. The data is available as a 30m resolution grid either in a NetCDF format using WGS84 coordinate system (EPSG: 4326) or in an ESRI ASCII interchange raster format in standard Antarctic polar stereographic coordinates (EPSG 3031). The grid have been created using the MB-system mbgrid program. For further information regarding the creation of this dataset please refer to the associated article and the supplementary information.

  • Bathymetric compilation of the Brunt sub Ice Shelf, East Antarctic Ice Sheet. The bathymetry grid was compiled from a variety of different sources including multibeam swath bathymetry collected from scientific cruises undertaken by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). Multibeam data were supplemented with regional bathymetry from the International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBSCO) and seismic data. The data is available as a 500m resolution grid using the IBSCO polar stereographic projection. For further information regarding the creation of this dataset please refer to https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2383-2018.

  • We present here side scan sonar datasets and accompanying quicklook seabed images of the Scotia Sea acquired by a GLORIA II (Geological Long Range Inclined Asdic) side scan sonar. The GLORIA instrument was operated on the Royal Research Ship (RRS) Charles Darwin 37 (CD37) research cruise during January - April 1989. The study area was the Scotia Sea, North Scotia Ridge (NSR), South Sandwich Island, South Sandwich Arc, and West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) continental shelf, within the broader region of the Southern Ocean. Raw data are presented in NetCDF format. These have been pre-processed from the binary pass data using the bas-gloria package (https://github.com/antarctica/bas-gloria). The data have been improved with additional metadata such as latitude, longitude and depth. In addition, "quicklook" seabed images generated from each pass file are provided as PNG images. Cruise tracks from the ship and side scan sonar are presented in CSV format. The cruise was carried out in order to gain a better understanding of the Southern Ocean with a particular focus on: - Tectonic history - Active tectonic processes - Paleoceanography - Stratigraphy - Ice dynamics during glacial intervals This project was funded by BAS under project code B6153: Scotia Sea tectonic evolution and palaeo-circulation.