Long-term observations of daily currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 2 (April 2016 - April 2017) ...

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
Subjects:
-41.68
-249.68
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
Antarc*
Antarctic
Marion Island
South Atlantic Ocean
Prince Edward Island
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052041
https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052041
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Summary: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 (41.68 - 249.68 m) from an ADCP at location M2 (46.7117°S; 37.900°E) on the Prince Edward Island shelf, between 25 April 2016 and 20 April 2017. ... : 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 M2 (46.7117°S; 37.900°E), on the shelf between Marion Island and Prince Edward Island. The instrument measured hourly magnitude and direction throughout the water column (41.68 - 249.68m) between 25 April 2016 and 20 April 2017. 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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