Raw Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) casts collected during the 2015 Marion Relief Voyage on SA Agulhas Voyage 015 ...

The South African component of the international South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation project (SAMOC-SA) aims to characterize 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marcel van den Berg
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment 2020
Subjects:
-0.5
-950.0
m
Mean sea level
completed
license
oceans
Marion Island Relief Voyage
INDIAN OCEAN
XBT
Prince Edward Islands
Crossroads monitoring line
temperature
South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
SAMOC-SA
physical oceanography
SA Agulhas II
voyage 015
AGU015
WGS 84
textTable
Antarctic
Indian
Southern Ocean
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Marion Island
South Atlantic Ocean
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052152
https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/SAEON/go/10.15493/dea.mims.26052152
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Summary:The South African component of the international South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation project (SAMOC-SA) aims to characterize 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. The Crossroads monitoring line, directly under the altimetry track N198, is sampled annually during the Marion Relief voyages, using a combination of CTD stations and XBT casts, where the XBT casts are done, at set intervals, between CTD stations to complement the CTD data. Here we present 45 raw XBT casts collected along the Crossroads Transect, between 09 May 2015 and 14 May 2015, during the 2015 Marion Relief Voyage. ... : Sippican WinMK21 Data Acquisition and Post-Processing Software is used for data collection of T7 Deep Blue XBT probes. The data is collected in *.bin format and then converted to *.txt files using software.The *.txt files contain some metadata at the top of file, but not always fully completed by operators.There is no editing done to the data in the acquisition software and so the bottom readings, where the XBT loses signal, have not been removed for the 45 XBT casts. ...

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