Raw Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) casts collected during the Marion Island Relief Voyage on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 057, May 2023 ...

• Main Author: Marcel van den Berg
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment 2023
• Subjects: -950; -0.5; m; Mean Sea Level; onGoing; license; oceans; INDIAN OCEAN; South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation SAMOC-SA; Marion Island Relief Voyage; XBT; Crossroads monitoring line; temperature; WGS 84; textTable; Antarc*; Antarctic; Marion Island; South Atlantic Ocean; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.11222023; https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.11222023

Raw Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) casts collected in the South West Indian Ridge area and along the Crossroads Transect, between 14 May 2023 and 17 May 2023, during the 2023 Marion Relief Voyage on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 057. ... : Here we present 36 raw Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) casts collected in the South West Indian Ridge area and along the Crossroads Transect, between 14 May 2023 and 17 May 2023, during the 2023 Marion Relief Voyage on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 057. 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. The Crossroads monitoring line, directly under the altimetry track N198, is sampled annually during the Marion Relief voyages, using a combination of Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) stations and XBT casts, where the XBT casts are done, at set intervals, between CTD stations to complement the CTD data. ...