Long-term observations of daily subsurface temperatures along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 8 (September 2014 - November 2015) ...

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:
-612.0
m
Mean sea level
onGoing
license
oceans
South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation SAMOC-SA
SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ADCP
SAMBA transect
South Atlantic Ocean
Cape Basin
moorings
temperature
WGS 84
textTable
Antarc*
Antarctic
Southern Ocean
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052073
https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052073
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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 daily subsurface temperatures from an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) located at a depth of 612m at M8 (34.5034°S; 17.3277°E) along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-wide Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 18 September 2014 and 30 November 2015. ... : A subsurface-mounted, upward-looking, 75 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was deployed at location M8 (34.5034°S; 17.3277°E), along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean. A temperature sensor on the instrument measured hourly temperature readings between 18 September 2014 and 30 November 2015, at a depth of 612m. These hourly values were averaged to daily means. 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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