Title Long-term observations of hourly currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 2 (April 2016 - 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 magnitude and direction of hourly currents throughout the water column (41.68 - 249.68 m) from an ADCP at location M2 (46.7117°S; 37.900°E) on the Prince Edward Island shelf, between 24 April 2016 and 21 April 2017.
Methods A bottom-mounted, upward-looking, 150 kHz RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was configured with a bin size of 8 m and a blanking distance of 3.52 m, and deployed at location M2 (46.7117°S; 37.900°E), on the shelf between Marion Island and Prince Edward Island. The instrument measured hourly magnitude and direction throughout the water column (41.68 - 249.68 m) between 24 April 2016 10h00 and 21 April 2017 07h00. These hourly values were corrected for magnetic declination and only hourly values which showed ≥ 75 % good beam data were used.
Data
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Temporal extent 24 Apr 2016 – 21 Apr 2017
Geographic extent

Prince Edward Islands, Southern Ocean

Lat: -46.7117
Lon: 37.9

Vertical extent Max: -41.68 m
Min: -249.68 m
Keywords ADCP, currents, INDIAN OCEAN, moorings, Prince Edward Islands, shelf, Southern Ocean
Related resources
  • This digital object continues Long-term observations of hourly currents on the Prince Edward Island shelf at Mooring 2 (April 2015 - April 2016) (10.15493/dea.mims.26052329)
  • This digital object is part of Long-term moored observations at the Prince Edward Island archipelago (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.26052019)