Survey Identifier: DIS131L2


Format Acronym: MGD77
Data Center File Number: 19100042
Parameters Surveyed Code: 55500
File Creation Date (yyyymmdd): 19940318
Source Institution: NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Platform Name: RRS DISCOVERY
Platform Type Code: 1
Platform Type: SHIP
Chief Scientist(s): DR R.B. WHITMARSH, IOSDL
Project: RRS DISCOVERY CRUISE 131 LEG 2
Funding: NERC
Survey Departure Date (yyyymmdd): 19820909
Port of Departure: ST JOHNS, NEWFOUNDLAND
Survey Arrival Date (yyyymmdd): 19820911
Port of Arrival: FALMOUTH, UK
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: +53
Bottommost Latitude: +47
Leftmost Longitude: -052
Rightmost Longitude: -038
General Digitizing Rate of Bathymetry: 060
General Digitizing Rate of Magnetics: 020
General Digitizing Rate of Gravity: 021
Number of Data Records: 1604

Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1982 09 09
Latitude: +47.84450
Longitude: -51.71530
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 003426
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 251.0
Magnetics Total Field, 1st Sensor: 512320
Magnetics Residual Field: -03640
Free-Air Anomaly: -0320

Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1982 09 11
Latitude: +52.20650
Longitude: -38.45180
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 059293
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 4449.0
Magnetics Total Field, 1st Sensor: 529500
Magnetics Residual Field: +08380
Free-Air Anomaly: +0580