Dataset: bathymetry
Deployment: NBP-96-5

   PI:              Robert Anderson
   of:              Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
                    at Columbia University
   dataset:         Ross Sea, Antarctic Polar Front Zone standard depths
   dates:           August 30, 1996 to March 19, 1998
   location:        N: -44.0278  S: -77.8444  W: 165.862  E: 192.373
   project/cruise:  AESOPS -  all cruises
   ship:            Nathaniel B. Palmer
 
   PI-Note:  AESOPS Investigators presenting AESOPS data may use these data
             as a standardized bathymetry of the research area. The 76deg30min
             transect represents the standardized bathymetry in the Ross Sea.
             The 170degW transect is the full AESOPS transect from the Ross
             Sea to New Zealand.
 
   76.5S   All data within .5 mile on either side of 76.5S were extracted
           from the daily underway (jgdata) files recorded during cruises
           NBP96-5 and NBP97-1.  It was then sorted by longitudes and
           subsampled to 1 minute of longitude using Akima's spline for
           interpolation.  A GIF image is also available.
 
   170W    Bathymetry data collected during NBP98-2 were sorted by latitude
           and smoothed using a Robust median filter of 1.08 minutes of
           latitude.  Then, the data were output at a resolution of .36
           minutes of latitude.  A GIF image is also available, as well as
           some higher resolution quarter section GIFs along 170W:
 	        first quarter section
 	        second quarter section
 	        third quarter section
 	        fourth quarter section
 
   All GIF images were generated by Suzanne O'Hara (LDEO).