| Title | Raw ADCP data from long-term observations of currents at SAMBA Mooring 7, December 2015 - April 2017 |
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| Project | South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAMOC-SA) |
| Authors |
Lamont, Tarron van den Berg, Marcel |
| Publisher | Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2021) |
| Contributors |
Contact Person: Lamont, Tarron |
| Abstract | 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, located at a depth of 601m at Mooring 7 (34.394°S; 17.5943°E) along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 01 December 2015 and 05 April 2017 . |
| Methods | The raw data collected from a subsurface mounted, upward-looking, 75 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was configured with a bin size of 16m and a blanking distance of 7.04m, and deployed at a depth of 601m at location Mooring 7 (34.394°S; 17.5943°E), along the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Basin-wide Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean. The instrument measured hourly magnitude and direction throughout the water column between 01 December 2015 and 05 April 2017. |
| Data | |
| Temporal extent | 01 Dec 2015 – 05 Apr 2017 |
| Geographic extent |
Cape Basin, South Atlantic Ocean
Lat: -34.394 |
| Vertical extent |
Max: -601.0 m Min: -601.0 m |
| Keywords | Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers , ADCP , Cape Basin , currents , moorings , SAMBA , South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Basin-wide Array , SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN |
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