Long-term observations of daily currents along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 8 (April 2017 - October 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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ftdatacite:10.15493/dea.mims.26052079 2024-04-28T08:02:53+00:00 Long-term observations of daily currents along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 8 (April 2017 - October 2018) ... Tarron Lamont Marcel van den Berg 2020 txt https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052079 https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052079 en eng Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052050 https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052075 Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) -49.73 -577.73 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 currents WGS 84 textTable dataset Dataset 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.2605207910.15493/DEA.MIMS.2605205010.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052075 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 in the upper part of the water column (49.73 - 577.73m) from an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) located at a depth of 602m at M8 (34.4991°S; 17.3019°E) along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-wide Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 10 April 2017 and 08 October 2018. ... : A subsurface-mounted, upward-looking, 75 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was configured with a bin size of 16m and a blanking distance of 7m, and deployed at a depth of 602m at location M8 (34.4991°S; 17.3019°E), along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean. The instrument measured hourly magnitude and direction in the upper part of the water column (49.73 - 577.73m) between 10 April 2017 and 08 October 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 South Atlantic Ocean Southern Ocean DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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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 in the upper part of the water column (49.73 - 577.73m) from an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) located at a depth of 602m at M8 (34.4991°S; 17.3019°E) along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-wide Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 10 April 2017 and 08 October 2018. ... : A subsurface-mounted, upward-looking, 75 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was configured with a bin size of 16m and a blanking distance of 7m, and deployed at a depth of 602m at location M8 (34.4991°S; 17.3019°E), along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean. The instrument measured hourly magnitude and direction in the upper part of the water column (49.73 - 577.73m) between 10 April 2017 and 08 October 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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Tarron Lamont Marcel van den Berg |
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Long-term observations of daily currents along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 8 (April 2017 - October 2018) ... |
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Long-term observations of daily currents along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 8 (April 2017 - October 2018) ... |
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Long-term observations of daily currents along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 8 (April 2017 - October 2018) ... |
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Long-term observations of daily currents along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 8 (April 2017 - October 2018) ... |
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Long-term observations of daily currents along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 8 (April 2017 - October 2018) ... |
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long-term observations of daily currents along the samba transect at samba mooring 8 (april 2017 - october 2018) ... |
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Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment |
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2020 |
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https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052079 https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052079 |
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Antarc* Antarctic South Atlantic Ocean Southern Ocean |
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Antarc* Antarctic South Atlantic Ocean Southern Ocean |
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Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) |
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https://doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.2605207910.15493/DEA.MIMS.2605205010.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052075 |
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