Raw ADCP data for long-term observations of currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 2 (April 2016 - April 2017) ...

• Main Authors: Tarron Lamont, Marcel van den Berg
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment 2020
• Subjects: -277.0; 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; Antarctic; Indian; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Marion Island; South Atlantic Ocean; Prince Edward Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052339; https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/dea.mims.26052339

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 raw data from an ADCP, deployed at a depth of 277m, at location M2 (46.7117°S; 37.9000°E) on the Prince Edward Island shelf, between 24 April 2016 and 21 April 2017. ... : The raw data was collected using a bottom-mounted, upward-looking, Teledyne 150 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) that was configured with a bin size of 8 m and a blanking distance of 3.52 m. The ADCP was deployed at location M2 (46.7117°S; 37.9000°E),in a depth of 277m, on the shelf between Marion Island and Prince Edward Island. The instrument measured hourly magnitude and direction throughout the water column between 24 April 2016 and 21 April 2017. ...