Name: Raw Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) casts collected during the 2020 Marion Relief Voyage on SA Agulhas Voyage 042
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DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26052161

Title	Raw Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) casts collected during the 2020 Marion Relief Voyage on SA Agulhas Voyage 042
Project	Marion Island Relief Voyage
Authors	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 (2020)
Contributors	Contact Person: 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, marcel@oceanafrica.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. The Crossroads monitoring line, directly under the altimetry track N198, is sampled annually during the Marion Relief voyages, using a combination of CTD stations and XBT casts, where the XBT casts are done, at set intervals, between CTD stations to complement the CTD data. Here we present 47 raw XBT casts collected along the Crossroads Transect, between 13 May 2020 and 15 May 2020, during the 2020 Marion Relief Voyage.
Methods	Sippican WinMK21 Data Acquisition and Post-Processing Software is used for data collection of T7 Deep Blue XBT probes. The data is collected in .bin format and then converted to .txt files using software. The *.txt files contain some metadata at the top of file, but not always fully completed by operators. There is no editing done to the data in the acquisition software and so the bottom readings, where the XBT loses signal, have not been removed for the 47 XBT casts.
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Temporal extent	13 May 2020 – 15 May 2020
Geographic extent	Prince Edward Islands, Southern Ocean North: -34.998 South: -47.5 West: 18.5 East: 43.0
Vertical extent	Max: -0.5 m Min: -950.0 m
Keywords	Crossroads monitoring line, INDIAN OCEAN, Marion Island Relief Voyage, Prince Edward Islands, SA Agulhas II, SA Agulhas II 042, SAMOC-SA, South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, temperature, XBT
Related resources	This digital object is part of Marion Island Relief Voyage on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 042, April 2020 (10.15493/dea.mims.26052160)

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