Long-term observations of daily currents at SAMBA Mooring 9 (October 2018 - October 2020) ...

• Main Authors: Tarron Lamont, Marcel van den Berg
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment 2023
• Subjects: -441.56; -41.56; m; Mean Sea Level; onGoing; license; oceans; SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation SAMOC-SA; ADCP; Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers; moorings; currents; SAMBA transect; WGS 84; textTable; Antarc*; Antarctic; South Atlantic Ocean; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.01642023; https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.01642023

Daily currents ... : Here we present processed magnitude and direction of daily currents in the upper part of the water column (41.56 - 441.56m) from an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) located at a depth of 466m at M9 (34.50295°S; 17.1242°E) along the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 16 October 2018 and 05 October 2020. The South African component of the international South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation project (SAMOC-SA) aims to characterise the time-mean and time-varying components of the SAMOC in the South Atlantic Ocean and monitor the variability of the main Southern Ocean frontal systems associated with the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), south of Africa. ...