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Title Long-term observations of hourly bottom temperatures at Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar (May 2013 - January 2017)
Project Long-term monitoring of nearshore temperatures around Southern Africa
Authors

Sabelani, Zintle
Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment; role: Marine Research Assistant

Ismail, Hassan
Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment; role: Marine Scientific Technician

van den Berg, Marcel
Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment; role: Marine Scientific Technician

Lamont, Tarron
Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment; role: Marine Scientist

Publisher Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2024)
Contributors

Contact Person: Ismail, Hassan
Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment; role: Marine Scientific Technician; email: heishmail@dffe.gov.za

Abstract Here we present processed hourly subsurface temperatures from Underwater Temperature Recorders (UTRs) located at a depth of 20m off Fort-Dauphin (25.0051°S 47.0972°E), along the east coast of Southern Africa, between 03 May 2013 and 18 January 2017. At selected sites around Southern Africa, UTRs have been used to obtain long-term records of bottom temperature in the nearshore environment, at depths ranging from 2m to 34m. Note that for some deployments, two UTRs were deployed to simultaneously record bottom temperatures.
Methods A subsurface-mounted, UTR was deployed at a depth of 20m off Fort-Dauphin (25.0051°S 47.0972°E), along the east coast of Southern Africa. The instrument(s) measured hourly temperature(s) readings between 03 May 2013 05h00 and 18 January 2017 04h00.
Data
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Temporal extent 03 May 2013 – 18 Jan 2017
Geographic extent

Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar

Lat: -25.0051
Lon: 47.0972

Vertical extent Max: -20.0 m
Min: -20.0 m
Keywords INDIAN OCEAN , temperature , underwater temperature recorder , UTR
Related resources
  • This digital object is new version of Raw temperature data for long-term observations of bottom temperatures at Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar (May 2013 - January 2017) (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.19112024)
  • This digital object is part of Long-term observations of hourly bottom temperatures at Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.15462023)