Title | South African Weather Service (SAWS) data from the Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP:SB) on the Algoa Voyage 218, September 2015 |
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Project | Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP: SB) |
Authors |
Mfundo Lombi Keshnee Pillay |
Publisher | Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2017) |
Contributors |
Contact Person: Keshnee Pillay |
Abstract | This is South African Weather Service (SAWS) data from the St Helena Bay Monitoring Line September 2015 cruise (now under the Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela). The St Helena Bay Monitoring Line was initiated as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims are to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. Data on harmful algal blooms, low oxygen water and intrusions of Agulhas Bank water along the west coast will also be collected. A long-term, multi-decadel time-series (from 1951 onward) of information already exists for this important region and has continued in the form of the IEP:SB to detect long-term changes in the hydrology and the plankton, which are important for the detection of regime shifts. |
Methods | Raw data in their original format, as received from the instrument and unprocessed. |
Data | |
Temporal extent | 16 Sep 2015 – 28 Sep 2015 |
Geographic extent |
Southern Benguela, West coast of South Africa, Kleinsee Monitoring Line, Namaqua Monitoring Line, St Helena Bay Monitoring Line, Scarborough Monitoring Line
North: -28.7535480371 |
Keywords | Algoa, Algoa 218, Automated Weather System, AWS, SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN |
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