Title Raw ADCP data from long-term observations of currents 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) 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 (2021)
Contributors

Contact Person: 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, 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 raw data from an ADCP, deployed at a depth of 320m at Mooring 4 (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, between 08 April 2017 and 09 October 2018.
Methods The raw data collected using a bottom 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 320m at location Mooring 4 (34.2948°S; 17.8802°E), along the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Basin-wide Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean. The instrument measured hourly magnitude and direction throughout the water column between 08 April 2017 and 09 October 2018.
Data
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Temporal extent 08 Apr 2017 – 09 Oct 2018
Geographic extent

Cape Basin, South Atlantic Ocean

Lat: -34.2948
Lon: 17.8802

Vertical extent Max: -320.0 m
Min: -320.0 m
Keywords Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers, ADCP, Cape Basin, currents, moorings, SAMBA, South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Basin-wide Array, SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
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