SOUND VELOCITY ANALYSIS

During the Multibeam acquisition we performed several CTD measurements. The position of the stations are shown in Fig. 5 and are reported in Table 7.

Table 7: MARM2001 CTD Locations.

STATION	DATE	LAT	LON	DEPTH
STAZ1	2001-05-25	4246.990	1507.140	173.0
ctd02	2001-05-27	3816.030	2124.240	79.5
ctd03	2001-05-29	3955.200	2557.720	67.8
ctd04	2001-05-29	4047.050	2724.610	600.0
ctd06	2001-06-01	4044.260	2943.160	75.0
ctd07	2001-06-01	4044.810	2935.770	74.0
ctd08	2001-06-02	4044.830	2932.650	57.0
ctd09	2001-06-03	4042.960	2934.900	141.0
ctd10	2001-06-03	4043.970	2922.860	211.4
ctd11	2001-06-05	4032.320	2840.650	85.0
ctd12	2001-06-06	4050.720	2834.070	356.9
ctd13	2001-06-08	4044.010	2919.670	392.1
ctd14	2001-06-09	4043.850	2941.460	206.9
CTD15	2001-06-12	4044.880	2939.360	113.7
CTD16	2001-06-12	4043.768	2953.580	33.6
ctd17	2001-06-14	4050.173	2904.055	92.6
CTD18	2001-06-14	4045.820	2722.870	274.3
E01_01	2001-06-16	3859.060	2452.061	1037.0
k05_01	2001-06-16	3954.999	2544.994	83.0

The whole data are presented in Figs. 15 and 16. The SV profiles were used for real-time acquisition and post-processing.

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Figure 15: T/S diagram of the whole data sample.

Figure 16: Sound Velocity Profiles of the whole data sample.