Title Short-term observations of hourly bottom temperatures on the continental shelf and slope off Port Edward, along the east coast of South Africa at location P3 (December 2005 - April 2006)
Project Shelf Circulation Patterns off Port Edward
Authors

Gavin Louw
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, glouw@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

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

Publisher Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2020)
Contributors

Contact Person: Gavin Louw
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, mrgavinl@gmail.com

Abstract Between 2005 and 2015, multiple short-term studies were conducted to determine the characteristics of moorings deployed in a region heavily influenced by the strong Agulhas Current, and to examine circulation patterns across the continental shelf and slope off Port Edward, along the east coast of South Africa. Three moorings (P1, P2, and P3) were deployed, just south of Port Edward at depths of 36m, 64m, and 162m, respectively, between September 2005 and September 2006, to measure currents and bottom temperatures across the inner shelf. A further three moorings (P4, P5, and P6) were deployed off Port Edward over the period September 2010 to June 2015, at depths of 217m, 1060m, and 2000m, to measure currents and sub-surface temperatures across the outer shelf and slope. Here we present processed hourly bottom temperatures from an ADCP at a depth of 168m at location P3 (31.2233°S; 30.2029°E) on the inner shelf off Port Edward, between 13 December 2005 and 10 April 2006.
Methods A bottom-mounted, upward-looking, 75 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was deployed at location P3 (31.2233°S; 30.2029°E), on the inner shelf just south of Port Edward, along the east coast of South Africa. A temperature sensor on the instrument measured hourly temperature readings between 13 December 18h00 and 10 April 2006 07h00, at a depth of 168m.
Data
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Temporal extent 13 Dec 2005 – 10 Apr 2006
Geographic extent

Port Edward, South Africa

Lat: -31.2233
Lon: 30.2029

Vertical extent Max: -168.0 m
Min: -168.0 m
Keywords ADCP, continental shelf, continental slope, INDIAN OCEAN, moorings, Port Edward, temperature
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  • This digital object continues Short-term observations of hourly bottom temperatures on the continental shelf and slope off Port Edward, along the east coast of South Africa at location P3 (September 2005 - December 2005) (10.15493/dea.mims.26052132)
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