Raw near-surface underway temperature and salinity (TSG) observations from the SEAmester and ASCA Scientific Cruise on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 052, June 2022 ...

• Main Authors: Leon Jacobs, Marcel van den Berg, Tarron Lamont
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment 2023
• Subjects: -7.0; m; Mean Sea Level; completed; license; oceans; SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN; Agulhas System Climate Array ASCA; THERMOSALINOGRAPH; SA Agulhas II; SA Agulhas II 052; TSG; WGS 84; textTable; Southern Ocean; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.01412023; https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.01412023

SA Agulhas II Voyage 052 ... : Here we present the 6-second resolution raw Thermosalinograph (TSG) data collected on the SEAmester and Agulhas System Climate Array (ASCA) Scientific Cruise on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 052 between 27 June and 07 July 2022. A SeaBird SBE45 Thermosalinograph (TSG) is used to opportunistically collect underway near-surface temperature and conductivity measurements during research and monitoring cruises. Water is continuously pumped to the TSG from an intake located in the hull of the vessel, and the observations are continuously interfaced with navigational information. A temperature sensor close to the intake provides temperature measurements of the incoming water (T1). The temperature of the water inside the conductivity cell (T2) is used to accurately compute salinity (S) from the conductivity measurements (C). The objective of the SEAmester cruise was to undertake the ASCA transect across the Agulhas Current and sample the 20 CTD stations done previously. In addition, SEAmester shallow (200 m) CTD training ...