Long-term observations of daily currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 1 (April 2017 - April 2018) ...

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 associa...

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Main Authors: Tarron Lamont, Marcel van den Berg
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment 2020
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052029
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spelling ftdatacite:10.15493/dea.mims.26052029 2024-04-28T07:57:38+00:00 Long-term observations of daily currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 1 (April 2017 - April 2018) ... Tarron Lamont Marcel van den Berg 2020 txt https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052029 https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052029 en eng Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052019 https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052026 Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) -19.46 -147.46 m Mean sea level onGoing license oceans South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation SAMOC-SA INDIAN OCEAN ADCP Prince Edward Islands Southern Ocean shelf moorings current velocity WGS 84 textTable dataset Dataset 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.2605202910.15493/DEA.MIMS.2605201910.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052026 2024-04-02T12:03:40Z 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 processed magnitude and direction of daily currents throughout the water column (19.46 - 147.46 m) from an ADCP at location M1 (46.773°S; 37.913°E) on the Prince Edward Island shelf, between 28 April 2017 and 20 April 2018. ... : 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 location M1 (46.773°S; 37.913°E), on the shelf between Marion Island and Prince Edward Island. The instrument measured hourly magnitude and direction throughout the water column (19.46 - 147.46m) between 28 April 2017 and 20 April 2018. These hourly values were corrected for magnetic declination, and then averaged to daily means for each depth bin. Only hourly values which showed ≥ 75% good beam data were used, and daily values were only generated for days on which there were 75% or more hourly readings. The data were then formatted in a .txt file with data values separated by commas. ... Dataset Antarc* Antarctic Marion Island Prince Edward Islands South Atlantic Ocean Southern Ocean Prince Edward Island DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology)
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description 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 processed magnitude and direction of daily currents throughout the water column (19.46 - 147.46 m) from an ADCP at location M1 (46.773°S; 37.913°E) on the Prince Edward Island shelf, between 28 April 2017 and 20 April 2018. ... : 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 location M1 (46.773°S; 37.913°E), on the shelf between Marion Island and Prince Edward Island. The instrument measured hourly magnitude and direction throughout the water column (19.46 - 147.46m) between 28 April 2017 and 20 April 2018. These hourly values were corrected for magnetic declination, and then averaged to daily means for each depth bin. Only hourly values which showed ≥ 75% good beam data were used, and daily values were only generated for days on which there were 75% or more hourly readings. The data were then formatted in a .txt file with data values separated by commas. ...
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Marcel van den Berg
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title Long-term observations of daily currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 1 (April 2017 - April 2018) ...
title_short Long-term observations of daily currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 1 (April 2017 - April 2018) ...
title_full Long-term observations of daily currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 1 (April 2017 - April 2018) ...
title_fullStr Long-term observations of daily currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 1 (April 2017 - April 2018) ...
title_full_unstemmed Long-term observations of daily currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 1 (April 2017 - April 2018) ...
title_sort long-term observations of daily currents on the prince edward island shelf at mooring 1 (april 2017 - april 2018) ...
publisher Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
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