Long-term observations of hourly subsurface temperatures along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 9 (September 2014 - December 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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Language: | English |
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Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
2020
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Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052085 https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052085 |
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 hourly subsurface temperatures from an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) located at a depth of 435m at M9 (34.5002°S; 17.1394°E) along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-wide Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between17 September 2014 and 02 December 2015. ... : A subsurface-mounted, upward-looking, 75 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was deployed at location M9 (34.5002°S; 17.1394°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 17 September 2014 16h00 and 02 December 2015 09h00, at a depth of 435m. The data were then formatted in a .txt file with data values separated by commas. ... |
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