Title Raw CTD data from the Winter Shakedown Cruise on SA Agulhas II Voyage 003, July 2012
Project Winter Cruise
Authors

Isabelle Ansorge
Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town Head of Department RW James Building, Residence Road, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, isabelle.ansorge@uct.ac.za

Azwianewi Makhado
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) Marine Scientist 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, 1 Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa, Amakhado@environment.gov.za

Publisher Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2017)
Contributors

Contact Person: Azwianewi Makhado
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) Marine Scientist 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, 1 Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa, Amakhado@environment.gov.za

Abstract This is raw Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) data from the Winter Shakedown Cruise on SA Agulhas II, Voyage 003, 9 July to 6 August, 2012. The cruise started in Cape Town and went down to the GoodHope Line then up to the Prince Edward Islands, on to Port Elizabeth and then back to Cape Town. After the arrival of SA Agulhas II back to South Africa, an inaugural Southern Ocean cruise was undertaken, which included a multidisciplinary program to measure oceanographic and biological parameters that characterise the state of the Southern Ocean in the region of interest to South Africa, along with the ecosystem properties of the major gyres, frontal systems and shelf and plateau areas. Additionally, land-based research on marine mammals and seabirds was undertaken at South Africa’s Prince Edward Islands (PEIs). The aim of the cruise was to test the research vessels capability and its equipment and to increase our understanding with regard to the influences of oceanographic conditions (specifically eddies) and topography on foraging by top predators breeding at the PEIs. It seems possible that the ecosystem of the PEIs benefits substantially from its location downstream of an eddy corridor originating at the South-West Indian Ocean Ridge.
Methods Raw data in their original format, as received from the instrument and unprocessed.
Data
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Temporal extent 09 Jul 2012 – 06 Aug 2012
Geographic extent

GoodHope Line, Prince Edward Islands

North: -33.912
South: -59.0
West: 0.0
East: 25.583

Keywords Conductivity, CTD, Depth, SA Agulhas II, SA Agulhas II 003, SOUTHERN OCEAN, Temperature
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