Name: Long-term observations of daily currents at SAMBA Mooring 4 (October 2018 - September 2020)
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DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.01582023

Title	Long-term observations of daily currents at SAMBA Mooring 4 (October 2018 - September 2020)
Project	South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAMOC-SA)
Authors	Tarron Lamont Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE); role: Marine Scientist; contact details: email: tlamont@dffe.gov.za Marcel van den Berg Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE); role: Marine Scientific Technician; contact details: email: mvdberg@dffe.gov.za
Publisher	Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2023)
Contributors	Contact Person: Tarron Lamont Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE); role: Marine Scientist; contact details: email: tarron.lamont@gmail.com Contact Person: Marcel van den Berg Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE); role: Marine Scientific Technician; contact details: email: mvandenberg.dea@gmail.com
Abstract	Here we present processed magnitude and direction of daily currents in the upper part of the water column (36.94 - 292.94m) from an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) located at a depth of 320m at M4 (34.2950°S; 17.8802°E) along the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 10 October 2018 and 29 September 2020. 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.
Methods	A subsurface-mounted, upward-looking, 150 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was configured with a bin size of 8m and a blanking distance of 3.52m, and deployed at a depth of 320m at location M4 (34.2950°S; 17.8802°E), along the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean. The instrument measured hourly magnitude and direction in the upper part of the water column (36.94 - 292.94m) between 10 October 2018 and 29 September 2020. These hourly values were corrected for magnetic declination, and then averaged to daily means for each depth bin. Only hourly values which showed ≥ 75% good beam data were used, and daily values were only generated for days on which there were 75% or more hourly readings.
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Temporal extent	10 Oct 2018 – 29 Sep 2020
Geographic extent	Cape Basin, South Atlantic Ocean North: -32.0 South: -36.0 West: 0.0 East: 19.0
Vertical extent	Max: -292.94 m Min: -36.94 m
Keywords	Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers, ADCP, currents, moorings, SAMBA transect, SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
Related resources	This digital object continues Long-term observations of daily currents along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 4 (April 2017 - October 2018) (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052060) This digital object is new version of Raw Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data for long-term observations of currents at SAMBA Mooring 4 (October 2018 - September 2020) (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.01542023) This digital object is part of Long-term moored observations from the eastern part of the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Basin-wide Array (SAMBA) (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052050)

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