Long-term observations of daily bottom currents along the SAMBA transect at PIES Mooring P1 (October 2019 – October 2021) ...

• 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: -1245; 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.08152023; https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.08152023

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 1245m at location P1 (34.405°S; 17.547°E) along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 14 October 2019 and 03 October 2021. 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. ...