Long-term observations of daily bottom currents along the SAMBA transect at PIES Mooring P6 (September 2013 – August 2015) ...

• Main Authors: Sabrina Speich, Tarron Lamont, Gavin Louw, Marcel van den Berg, Chris Meinen, Rigoberto Garcia, Renellys Perez, Shenfu Dong
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment 2023
• Subjects: -5135; m; Mean Sea Level; onGoing; oceans; SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation SAMOC-SA; PIES; Pressure-equipped Inverted Echo Sounder; moorings; currents; SAMBA transect; WGS 84; textTable; Antarc*; Antarctic; South Atlantic Ocean; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.08052023; https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.08052023

South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAMOC-SA) ... : Here we present processed northward and eastward velocity components from a 2000 khz Aanderaa Doppler Current Sensor (DCS) deployed at a depth of 5135m at location P6 (34.507°S; 07.450°E) along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 08 September 2013 and 10 August 2015. 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. ...