Name: Long-term observations of hourly bottom temperatures along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 4 (November 2015 - April 2017)
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DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052059

Title	Long-term observations of hourly bottom temperatures along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 4 (November 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 hourly bottom temperatures from an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) located at a depth of 303m 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 30 November 2015 and 05 April 2017.
Methods	A subsurface-mounted, upward-looking, 150 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was deployed 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. A temperature sensor on the instrument measured hourly temperature readings between 30 November 2015 20h00 and 05 April 2017 04h00, at a depth of 303m. The data were then formatted in a .txt file with data values separated by commas.
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Temporal extent	30 Nov 2015 – 05 Apr 2017
Geographic extent	Cape Basin, South Atlantic Ocean Lat: -34.29465 Lon: 17.8803
Vertical extent	Max: -303.0 m Min: -303.0 m
Keywords	ADCP, Cape Basin, moorings, SAMBA transect, SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN, temperature
Related resources	This digital object continues Long-term observations of hourly bottom temperatures along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 4 (July 2014 - December 2014) (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052056) 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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