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

• Main Authors: Tarron Lamont, Marcel van den Berg
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment 2020
• Subjects: -263.0; m; Mean sea level; onGoing; license; oceans; South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation SAMOC-SA; INDIAN OCEAN; ADCP; Prince Edward Islands; Southern Ocean; shelf; moorings; temperature; WGS 84; textTable; Antarc*; Antarctic; South Atlantic Ocean; Prince Edward Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052042; https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052042

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 daily bottom temperature 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 temperature sensor, on a bottom-mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), measured hourly temperature readings between 25 April 2016 and 20 April 2017, at a depth of 263m. These hourly values were averaged to daily means. Daily values were only generated for days on which there were 75% or more hourly readings. ...