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Title Raw Underway Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (UCTD) data from the Gough Island Relief on SA Agulhas II Voyage 004, September 2012
Project Gough Island Relief
Authors

Hutchinson, Katherine
University of Cape Town; role: Oceanographer

Publisher Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2017)
Contributors

Contact Person: Gulekana, Mthuthuzeli
Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment; role: Marine Scientist; email: MGulekana@dffe.gov.za

Abstract The Gough Island Relief Voyage is an annual cruise undertaken by the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) to change the overwintering team in Gough Island and to replenish the supplies at the British’s leased Gough Island Research base. The cruise also serves as a means to transport the residents and/or visitors to Tristan da Cunha using a signed agreement between South Africa and United Kingdom (UK). This voyage was to deliver the Gough 58 team to the island and return with the Gough 57 team. This is raw Underway Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (UCTD) data from the Gough Island Relief on SA Agulhas II Voyage 004 , 6 September to 11 October, 2012.
Methods Raw data in their original format, as received from the instrument and unprocessed.
Data
Temporal extent 06 Sep 2012 – 11 Oct 2012
Geographic extent

South Atlantic Ocean, Cape Town, Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island

North: -33.925
South: -50.0
West: -15.0
East: 18.424

Keywords Depth , EOV: Physics > Sea surface salinity , EOV: Physics > Sea surface temperature, SST , GOUGH ISLAND , SA Agulhas II , SA Agulhas II 004 , SDG Goal 14 , Temperature , UCTD , Underway Conductivity
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