Survey Identifier: CD5591
Format Acronym: MGD77
Data Center File Number: 19180012
Parameters Surveyed Code: 55500
File Creation Date (yyyymmdd): 19940318
Source Institution: NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Platform Name: RRS CHARLES DARWIN
Platform Type Code: 1
Platform Type: SHIP
Chief Scientist(s): DR R.B. WHITMARSH, IOSDL
Project: RRS CHARLES DARWIN CRUISE 55
Funding: NERC
Survey Departure Date (yyyymmdd): 19910106
Port of Departure: DAKAR, SENEGAL
Survey Arrival Date (yyyymmdd): 19910205
Port of Arrival: DAKAR, SENEGAL
Navigation Instrumentation: GPS
Geodetic Datum/Position: SATELLITE
Bathymetry Instrumentation: SIMRAD EA500 10KHZ ECHO-SOUNDER
Additional Forms of Bathymetric Data: ANALOG RECORDS
Topmost Latitude of Survey: +15
Bottommost Latitude: +02
Leftmost Longitude: -018
Rightmost Longitude: +001
General Digitizing Rate of Bathymetry: 021
General Digitizing Rate of Magnetics: 023
General Digitizing Rate of Gravity: 019
Number of Data Records: 21377
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1991 01 06
Latitude: +2.91140
Longitude: -17.69100
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 000133
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 10.0
Magnetics Total Field, 1st Sensor: 303970
Magnetics Residual Field: -02030
Free-Air Anomaly: -1190
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1991 02 05
Latitude: +14.68360
Longitude: +0.34630
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 067466
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 5089.0
Magnetics Total Field, 1st Sensor: 318060
Magnetics Residual Field: +02670
Free-Air Anomaly: +1520