The ASCA July 2016 (SEAmester I) processed Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) profile data

The Agulhas System Climate Array (ACSA) is a mooring array and is designed to provide long-term observations of the Agulhas Current`s volume, heat and salt transport and its variability from mesoscale (eddies), through seasonal to interannual timescales. The ASCA shelf and tall moorings extend 200 km offshore along decending TOPEX/Jason satellite ground track # 96, through the core of the Agulhas Current, with CPIES measurements extending the array to 300 km offshore of Port Elizabeth. This is the processed product of data collected by Expendable Bathythermographs (XBTs) which are individual probes that get deployed from a ship and collect temperature measurements as it falls through the water column.