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Data description paper
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11 Aug 2022
Data description paper |
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The COSMUS expedition: seafloor images and acoustic bathymetric data from the PS124 expedition to the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Laura Hehemann
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Lilian Boehringer
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Ellen Werner
HafenCity University Hamburg, Henning-Voscherau-Platz 1, 20457
Hamburg, Germany
Santiago E. A. Pineda-Metz
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Lucie Vignes
Sorbonne Université, CNRS/IRD/MNHN, LOCEAN, IPSL, France, Paris,
France
Axel Nordhausen
Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstraße 1,
28359 Bremen, Germany
Moritz Holtappels
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Frank Wenzhoefer
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstraße 1,
28359 Bremen, Germany
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Short summary
Within this paper we present the seafloor images, maps and acoustic camera data collected by a towed underwater research platform deployed in 20 locations across the eastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica, during the PS124 COSMUS expedition with the research icebreaker RV Polarstern in 2021. The 20 deployments highlight the great variability in seafloor structure and faunal communities present. Of key interest was the discovery of the largest fish nesting colony discovered globally to date.
Within this paper we present the seafloor images, maps and acoustic camera data collected by a...
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