Long-term observations of hourly currents measured by DVS at SAMBA Mooring 8, April 2017 - October 2018 ...
The South African component of the international South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation project (SAMOC-SA) aims to characterize 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 associa...
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ftdatacite:10.15493/dea.mims.20210328 2024-04-28T07:59:52+00:00 Long-term observations of hourly currents measured by DVS at SAMBA Mooring 8, April 2017 - October 2018 ... Tarron Lamont Marcel van den Berg 2021 txt https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.20210328 https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.20210328 en eng Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052050 https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052080 Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) -1357.0 m Mean sea level completed license oceans South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation SAMOC-SA SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Basin-wide Array SAMBA South Atlantic Ocean Cape Basin moorings Doppler Volume Sampler DVS currents WGS 84 textTable dataset Dataset 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.2021032810.15493/DEA.MIMS.2605205010.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052080 2024-04-02T12:03:40Z The South African component of the international South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation project (SAMOC-SA) aims to characterize 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. Here we present processed magnitude and direction of hourly currents in the water column from an DVS located at a depth of 1357m at Mooring 8 (34.4991°S; 17.3019°E) along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 09 April 2017 and 09 October 2018. ... : A subsurface-mounted, upward-looking, 2400 kHz RD Instruments Doppler Volume Sampler (DVS) was configured with a bin size of 0.8m and a blanking distance of 0.3m, and deployed at a depth of 1357m at location M8 (34.4991°S; 17.3019°E), along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean. The instrument measured hourly magnitude and direction in the water column between 09 April 2017 11h00 and 09 October 2018 11h00. These hourly values were corrected for magnetic declination, and only hourly values which showed ≥ 75% good beam data were used. ... Dataset Antarc* Antarctic South Atlantic Ocean Southern Ocean DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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The South African component of the international South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation project (SAMOC-SA) aims to characterize 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. Here we present processed magnitude and direction of hourly currents in the water column from an DVS located at a depth of 1357m at Mooring 8 (34.4991°S; 17.3019°E) along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 09 April 2017 and 09 October 2018. ... : A subsurface-mounted, upward-looking, 2400 kHz RD Instruments Doppler Volume Sampler (DVS) was configured with a bin size of 0.8m and a blanking distance of 0.3m, and deployed at a depth of 1357m at location M8 (34.4991°S; 17.3019°E), along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean. The instrument measured hourly magnitude and direction in the water column between 09 April 2017 11h00 and 09 October 2018 11h00. These hourly values were corrected for magnetic declination, and only hourly values which showed ≥ 75% good beam data were used. ... |
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Tarron Lamont Marcel van den Berg |
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Long-term observations of hourly currents measured by DVS at SAMBA Mooring 8, April 2017 - October 2018 ... |
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Long-term observations of hourly currents measured by DVS at SAMBA Mooring 8, April 2017 - October 2018 ... |
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Long-term observations of hourly currents measured by DVS at SAMBA Mooring 8, April 2017 - October 2018 ... |
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Long-term observations of hourly currents measured by DVS at SAMBA Mooring 8, April 2017 - October 2018 ... |
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Long-term observations of hourly currents measured by DVS at SAMBA Mooring 8, April 2017 - October 2018 ... |
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long-term observations of hourly currents measured by dvs at samba mooring 8, april 2017 - october 2018 ... |
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Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment |
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2021 |
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Antarc* Antarctic South Atlantic Ocean Southern Ocean |
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Antarc* Antarctic South Atlantic Ocean Southern Ocean |
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https://doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.2021032810.15493/DEA.MIMS.2605205010.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052080 |
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