Name: Long-term observations of daily currents along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 4 (December 2015 - April 2017)
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DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052057

Title	Long-term observations of daily currents along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 4 (December 2015 - April 2017)
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 (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 magnitude and direction of daily currents in the upper part of the water column (26.39 - 290.39m) from an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) located at a depth of 312m at M4 (34.29465°S; 17.8803°E) along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-wide Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 01 December 2015 and 04 April 2017.
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 312m at location M4 (34.29465°S; 17.8803°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 (26.39 - 290.39m) between 01 December 2015 and 04 April 2017. 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. The data were then formatted in a .txt file with data values separated by commas.
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Temporal extent	01 Dec 2015 – 04 Apr 2017
Geographic extent	Cape Basin, South Atlantic Ocean Lat: -34.29465 Lon: 17.8803
Vertical extent	Max: -26.39 m Min: -290.39 m
Keywords	ADCP, Cape Basin, 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 (July 2014 - December 2014) (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052054) 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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