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Processed Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) casts collected during the 2015 Marion Relief Voyage on SA Agulhas Voyage 015

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. The Crossroads monitoring line, directly under the altimetry track N198, is sampled annually during the Marion Relief voyages, using a combination of CTD stations and XBT casts, where the XBT casts are done, at set intervals, between CTD stations to complement the CTD data. Here we present 45 processed XBT casts collected along the Crossroads Transect, between 09 May 2015 and 14 May 2015, during the 2015 Marion Relief Voyage.

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Last Updated September 23, 2024, 08:35 (UTC)
Created May 17, 2024, 14:29 (UTC)
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contactInfo 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa, mvdberg@environment.gov.za
downloadURL https://repository.ocean.gov.za/index.php/s/fiA8x7qxa2nSsW9
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harvest_source_title MIMS
individualName Marcel van den Berg
organizationName Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE)
positionName Marine Scientific Technician
role originator
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