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Long-term observations of daily currents measured by DVS at SAMBA Mooring 8 (April 2017 - October 2018)

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 daily currents in the water column from a Doppler Volume Sampler (DVS) located at a depth of 1357m at M8 (34.4991°S; 17.3019°E) along the South Atlantic MOC Basin-wide Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between10 April 2017 and 08 October 2018.

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Last Updated	September 23, 2024, 08:44 (UTC)
Created	May 17, 2024, 14:54 (UTC)
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contactInfo	2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa, tlamont@environment.gov.za
downloadURL	https://repository.ocean.gov.za/index.php/s/iojABac962r5LeH
harvest_object_id	25109295-f963-40db-b5c8-b80da99d1be5
harvest_source_id	c880098e-385a-4d72-80f0-2f1d6603b53b
harvest_source_title	MIMS
individualName	Tarron Lamont
organizationName	Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), South Africa
positionName	Marine Scientist
role	originator
spatial	{"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[17.3019, -34.4991], [17.3019, -34.4991], [17.3019, -34.4991], [17.3019, -34.4991], [17.3019, -34.4991]]]}
xmax	17.3019
xmin	17.3019
ymax	-34.4991
ymin	-34.4991