Name: Long-term observations of hourly currents along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 4, April 2017 - October 2018
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DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.20210320

Title	Long-term observations of hourly currents along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 4, April 2017 - October 2018
Project	South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAMOC-SA)
Authors	Tarron Lamont Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), South Africa Marine Scientist 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa, tlamont@environment.gov.za Marcel van den Berg Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), South Africa Marine Scientific Technician 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa, mvdberg@environment.gov.za
Publisher	Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2021)
Contributors	Contact Person: Tarron Lamont Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), South Africa Marine Scientist 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa, tarron.lamont@gmail.com
Abstract	The South African component of the international South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation project (SAMOC-SA) aims to characterize 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 processed magnitude and direction of hourly currents in the upper part of the water column (27.77 - 291.77m) from an ADCP located at a depth of 320m at Mooring 4 (34.2948°S; 17.8802°E) along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 08 April 2017 and 09 October 2018.
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 (34.2948°S; 17.8802°E), along the South Atlantic MOC 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 (27.77 - 291.77m) between 08 April 2017 10h00 and 09 October 2018 04h00. These hourly values were corrected for magnetic declination, and only hourly values which showed ≥ 75% good beam data were used.
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Temporal extent	08 Apr 2017 – 09 Oct 2018
Geographic extent	Cape Basin, South Atlantic Ocean Lat: -34.2948 Lon: 17.8802
Vertical extent	Max: -27.77 m Min: -291.77 m
Keywords	ADCP, Cape Basin, currents, moorings, SAMBA, South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Basin-wide Array, SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
Related resources	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) This digital object is version of Long-term observations of daily currents along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 4 (April 2017 - October 2018) (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052060)

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