Long-term observations of daily currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 1 (May 2019 - April 2020) ...
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.26052320 2024-06-09T07:39:47+00:00 Long-term observations of daily currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 1 (May 2019 - April 2020) ... Tarron Lamont Marcel van den Berg 2020 txt https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052320 https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/dea.mims.26052320 en eng Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052019 Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) -15.49 -143.49 m Mean sea level onGoing license oceans South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation SAMOC-SA INDIAN OCEAN ADCP Prince Edward Islands Southern Ocean shelf moorings currents WGS 84 textTable Dataset dataset 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.2605232010.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052019 2024-05-13T10:51:24Z 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 throughout the water column (15.49 - 143.49 m) from an ADCP at location M1 (46.773°S; 37.911°E) on the Prince Edward Island shelf, between 06 May 2019 and 28 April 2020. ... : A bottom-mounted, upward-looking, 150 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was configured with a bin size of 8 m and a blanking distance of 3.52 m, and deployed at location M1 (46.773°S; 37.911°E), on the shelf between Marion Island and Prince Edward Island. The instrument measured hourly magnitude and direction throughout the water column (15.49 - 143.49 m) between 06 May 2019 and 28 April 2020. 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. ... Dataset Antarc* Antarctic Marion Island Prince Edward Islands South Atlantic Ocean Southern Ocean Prince Edward Island DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic Indian Southern Ocean The Antarctic |
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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 throughout the water column (15.49 - 143.49 m) from an ADCP at location M1 (46.773°S; 37.911°E) on the Prince Edward Island shelf, between 06 May 2019 and 28 April 2020. ... : A bottom-mounted, upward-looking, 150 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was configured with a bin size of 8 m and a blanking distance of 3.52 m, and deployed at location M1 (46.773°S; 37.911°E), on the shelf between Marion Island and Prince Edward Island. The instrument measured hourly magnitude and direction throughout the water column (15.49 - 143.49 m) between 06 May 2019 and 28 April 2020. 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. ... |
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Tarron Lamont Marcel van den Berg |
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Tarron Lamont Marcel van den Berg |
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Long-term observations of daily currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 1 (May 2019 - April 2020) ... |
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Long-term observations of daily currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 1 (May 2019 - April 2020) ... |
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Long-term observations of daily currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 1 (May 2019 - April 2020) ... |
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Long-term observations of daily currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 1 (May 2019 - April 2020) ... |
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Long-term observations of daily currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 1 (May 2019 - April 2020) ... |
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long-term observations of daily currents on the prince edward island shelf at mooring 1 (may 2019 - april 2020) ... |
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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.26052320 https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/dea.mims.26052320 |
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Antarctic Indian Southern Ocean The Antarctic |
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Antarctic Indian Southern Ocean The Antarctic |
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Antarc* Antarctic Marion Island Prince Edward Islands South Atlantic Ocean Southern Ocean Prince Edward Island |
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Antarc* Antarctic Marion Island Prince Edward Islands South Atlantic Ocean Southern Ocean Prince Edward Island |
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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.2605232010.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052019 |
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