Long-term observations of daily bottom temperatures at Port Nolloth (February 1991 - July 1991) ...

• Main Authors: Darrell Anders, Marcel van den Berg, Tarron Lamont
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment 2020
• Subjects: -5.0; m; Mean sea level; completed; license; oceans; Long-term monitoring of nearshore temperatures around Southern Africa; SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; UTR; Southern Africa; nearshore; coastal; underwater temperature recorder; temperature; Port Nolloth; WGS 84; textTable; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052270; https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/dea.mims.26052270

At selected sites around Southern Africa, Underwater Tempearture Recorders (UTRs) have been used to obtain long-term records of bottom temperature in the nearshore environment, at depths ranging from 2m to 34m. Here we present processed daily subsurface temperatures from UTRs located at a depth of 5m off Port Nolloth (29.2524°S; 16.8671°E), along the west coast of South Africa, between 5 February 1991 and 10 July 1991. ... : A subsurface-mounted, Hugrun Seamon Mini Underwater Temperature Recorder (UTR) was deployed at a depth of 5m off Port Nolloth (29.2524°S; 16.8671°E), along the west coast of South Africa. The instrument measured hourly temperature readings between 5 February 1991 and 10 July 1991. These hourly values were averaged to daily means. Daily values were only generated for days on which there were 75 % or more hourly readings. ...