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Title Raw Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data for short-term observations of hourly currents on the continental shelf in the vicinity of Algoa Bay, along the southeast coast of South Africa at location ABay03 (06 December 2013 - 07 December 2014)
Authors

Louw, Gavin
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 (2025)
Contributors

Contact Person: van den Berg, Marcel
Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment; role: Marine Scientific Technician; email: mvdberg@dffe.gov.za

Abstract Between 2005 and 2014, multiple short-term studies were conducted to determine the circulation patterns across the continental shelf in the vicinity of Algoa Bay, along the southeast coast of South Africa. One mooring (CR01) was deployed off Cape Recife at a depth of 65m, between June 2013 and December 2014. A set of four moorings (ABay01; ABay02; ABay03 and ABay04) were deployed between the mouth of Algoa Bay and the edge of the continental slope, at depths of 75m, 115m, 120m and 160m, between December 2013 and December 2014. A set of three moorings (PA01, PA02 and PA03) were deployed off Port Alfred at depths of 30m, 85m and 165m, between May 2005 and April 2006. The purpose of these moorings were to measure currents and sub-surface temperatures. Here we present raw data from an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) at location ABay03 (34.13°S; 26.43°E) on the inner shelf off Algoa Bay, between 06 December 2013 and 07 December 2014.
Methods The raw data was collected using a bottom-mounted, upward-looking, 300 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), configured with a bin size of 2m and a blanking distance of 1.76m, and deployed at location ABay03 (34.13°S; 26.43°E), on the shelf of Algoa Bay. The instrument was deployed at a depth of 123m and measured hourly magnitude and direction throughout the water column between 06 December 2013 - 07 December 2014.
Data
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Temporal extent 06 Dec 2013 – 07 Dec 2014
Geographic extent

Algoa Bay, South Africa

Lat: -34.13
Lon: 26.43

Vertical extent Max: -123 m
Min: -123 m
Keywords ADCP , Algoa Bay , Cape Recife , continental shelf , currents , EOV: Physics > Subsurface currents , EOV: Physics > Subsurface temperature , INDIAN OCEAN , moorings , Port Alfred
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