Title Raw SADCP data from the Marion Island Annual Relief Voyage on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 024, April 2017
Project Marion Island Relief Voyage
Authors

Hans Verheye
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) Specialist Scientist 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, 1 Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa

Publisher Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2022)
Contributors

Contact Person: Tarron Lamont
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, tarron.lamont@gmail.com

Contact Person: Jenny Huggett
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, Jhuggett@environment.gov.za

Abstract This is raw Shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (SADCP) data from the Marion Island Annual Relief Voyage on the MV SA Agulhas II Voyage 024, 06 April to 12 May 2017. The 2017 Marion Relief Voyage offered the fifth opportunity to conduct multi-disciplinary, shipbased marine research focusing on links and interactions between air and sea, ocean physics, chemistry, biogeochemistry and biology, including microbial, planktic and benthic communities on board South Africa’s polar research and supply vessel MV SA Agulhas II en route to, and around, the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward archipelago. The overall aim was to continue contributing to an oceanographic observation and monitoring system directed by South African research institutions in support of South Africa’s needs – and where possible, in support of global requirements of inter alia the Global Oceans Observing System (GOOS), the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS), the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), and the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP). With the declaration on 9 April 2013 of the Prince Edward Islands (PEIs) as South Africa’s first offshore Marine Protected Area (MPA), the outcomes of this cruise will further contribute toward an integrated view and a better understanding of the functioning of the combined island/marine PEI ecosystem.
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 06 Apr 2017 – 12 May 2017
Geographic extent

South Indian Ocean, Prince Edward Islands

North: -34.998
South: -47.5
West: 18.5
East: 38.5

Keywords INDIAN OCEAN, SA Agulhas II, SA Agulhas II 024, SADCP, Shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers
Related resources
  • This digital object is part of Marion Island Annual Relief Voyage on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 024, April 2017 (10.15493/dea.mims.26052207)