Long-term observations of daily subsurface temperatures along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 8 (December 2015 - April 2017) ...

• Main Authors: Tarron Lamont, Marcel van den Berg
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment 2020
• Subjects: -619.0; 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.26052077; https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052077

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 619m at M8 (34.4993°S; 17.3011°E) along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-wide Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 03 December 2015 and 04 April 2017. ... : A subsurface-mounted, upward-looking, 75 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was deployed at location M8 (34.4993°S; 17.3011°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 03 December 2015 and 04 April 2017, at a depth of 619m. 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. ...