Title Raw NDS data from the St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Algoa Voyage 195, March 2013
Project Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP: SB)
Authors

Mfundo Lombi
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) Control Technician 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, 1 Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa, mlombi@environment.gov.za

Keshnee Pillay
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) Marine Scientist 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, 1 Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa, KePillay@environment.gov.za

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

Contact Person: Keshnee Pillay
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) Marine Scientist 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, 1 Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa, KePillay@environment.gov.za

Abstract This is raw Network Data System (NDS) data from the St Helena Bay Monitoring Line, which now falls under the Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela, on the Algoa Voyage 196, 4 to 8 March, 2013.The St Helena Bay Monitoring Line was initiated as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims are to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. Data on harmful algal blooms, low oxygen water and intrusions of Agulhas Bank water along the west coast will also be collected. A long-term, multi-decadel time-series (from 1951 onward) of information already exists for this important region and has continued in the form of the IEP:SB to detect long-term changes in the hydrology and the plankton, which are important for the detection of regime shifts.
Methods Raw data in their original format, as received from the instrument and unprocessed.
Data
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Temporal extent 04 Mar 2013 – 08 Mar 2013
Geographic extent

St Helena Bay Monitoring Line, SHARP/ SARP Monitoring Line, Scarborough Monitoring Line

North: -32.2197
South: -34.9993
West: 15.0068
East: 18.5213

Keywords Algoa, Algoa 195, NDS, Network Data System, SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
Related resources
  • This digital object is part of St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Algoa Voyage 195, March 2013 (10.15493/dea.mims.26052217)