Title Long-term observations of hourly bottom temperatures on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 1 (April 2014 - April 2015)
Project South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAMOC-SA)
Authors

Tarron Lamont
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) 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) 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 (2020)
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 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 processed hourly bottom temperature from an ADCP at location M1 (46.775°S; 37.900°E) on the Prince Edward Island shelf, between 07 April 2014 and 19 April 2015.
Methods A temperature sensor, on a bottom-mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), measured hourly temperature readings between 07 April 2014 18h00 and 19 April 2015 04h00, at a depth of 161m. The data were then formatted in a .txt file with data values separated by commas.
Data
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Temporal extent 07 Apr 2014 – 19 Apr 2015
Geographic extent

Prince Edward Islands, Southern Ocean

Lat: -46.775
Lon: 37.9

Vertical extent Max: -161.0 m
Min: -161.0 m
Keywords ADCP, INDIAN OCEAN, moorings, Prince Edward Islands, shelf, Southern Ocean, temperature
Related resources
  • This digital object is part of Long-term moored observations at the Prince Edward Island archipelago (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052019)