Title | Long-term observations of daily bottom temperatures on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 2 (April 2015 - April 2016) |
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Project | South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAMOC-SA) |
Authors |
Tarron Lamont Marcel van den Berg |
Publisher | Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2020) |
Contributors |
Contact Person: Tarron Lamont |
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 daily bottom temperature from an ADCP at location M2 (46.7126°S; 37.900°E) on the Prince Edward Island shelf, between 20 April 2015 and 21 April 2016. |
Methods | A temperature sensor, on a bottom-mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), measured hourly temperature readings between 20 April 2015 and 21 April 2016, at a depth of 257m. These hourly values were averaged to daily means. Daily values were only generated for days on which there were 75% or more hourly readings. The data were then formatted in a .txt file with data values separated by commas. |
Data | |
Temporal extent | 20 Apr 2015 – 21 Apr 2016 |
Geographic extent |
Prince Edward Islands, Southern Ocean
Lat: -46.7126 |
Vertical extent |
Max: -257.0 m Min: -257.0 m |
Keywords | ADCP, INDIAN OCEAN, moorings, Prince Edward Islands, shelf, Southern Ocean, temperature |
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