Raw ADCP data from long-term observations of currents at SAMBA Mooring 4, April 2017 - October 2018 ...

• Main Authors: Tarron Lamont, Marcel van den Berg
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment 2021
• Subjects: -320.0; m; Mean sea level; completed; license; oceans; South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation SAMOC-SA; SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; ADCP; South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Basin-wide Array; SAMBA; South Atlantic Ocean; Cape Basin; moorings; Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers; currents; WGS 84; textTable; Antarc*; Antarctic; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.25010030; https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/dea.mims.25010030

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. Here we present raw data from an ADCP, deployed at a depth of 320m at Mooring 4 (34.2948°S; 17.8802°E) along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 08 April 2017 and 09 October 2018. ... : The raw data collected using a bottom mounted, upward-looking, 150 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was configured with a bin size of 8m and a blanking distance of 3.52m, and deployed at a depth of 320m at location Mooring 4 (34.2948°S; 17.8802°E), along the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Basin-wide Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean. The instrument measured hourly magnitude and direction throughout the water column between 08 April 2017 and 09 October 2018. ...