Name: Long-term observations of daily bottom temperatures along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 4 (April 2017 - October 2018)
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DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052061

Title	Long-term observations of daily bottom temperatures 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 (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 daily bottom temperatures from an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) located at a depth of 304m at M4 (34.2948°S; 17.8802°E) along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-wide Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 09 April 2017 and 08 October 2018.
Methods	A subsurface-mounted, upward-looking, 150 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was deployed 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. A temperature sensor on the instrument measured hourly temperature readings between 09 April 2017 and 08 October 2018, at a depth of 304m. 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.
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Temporal extent	09 Apr 2017 – 08 Oct 2018
Geographic extent	Cape Basin, South Atlantic Ocean Lat: -34.2948 Lon: 17.8802
Vertical extent	Max: -304.0 m Min: -304.0 m
Keywords	ADCP, Cape Basin, moorings, SAMBA transect, SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN, temperature
Related resources	This digital object continues Long-term observations of daily bottom temperatures along the SAMBA transect at SAMBA Mooring 4 (December 2015 - April 2017) (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052058) 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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