Mean current velocity sections along 11°S, 5°S, 35°W, and 23°W from shipboard measurements used in "Transports and pathways of the tropical AMOC return flow from Argo data and shipboard velocity measurements"

<p>This data set contains current velocity measurements used in the study &quot;Transports and pathways of the tropical AMOC return flow from Argo data and shipboard velocity measurements&ldquo; by <em>Tuchen et al. (2022)</em>&nbsp;published at <em>Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans</em>.</p> <p>For the meridional mean sections along 35&deg;W and 23&deg;W, and for the quasi-zonal sections along 11&deg;S and 5&deg;S, one &quot;.mat&quot; file is provided for each of the sections. Please note that the section along 11&deg;S consists of a zonal part (east of 34.2&deg;W) and a cross-shore part closer to the coast. The meridional velocities along the cross-shore part of the 11&deg;S-section are rotated clockwise by 36&deg; in order to derive along-shore velocities.</p> <ul> <li>11&deg;S: meridional velocity / alongshore velocity (V), neutral density (gamma_n), longitude (LON), depth (Z)</li> <li>5&deg;S: meridional velocity (V), neutral density (gamma_n), longitude (LON), depth (Z)</li> <li>35&deg;W: zonal velocity (U), neutral density (gamma_n), latitude (LAT), depth (Z)</li> <li>23&deg;W: zonal velocity (U), neutral density (gamma_n), latitude (LAT), depth (Z)</li> </ul> <p>Mean velocity data in the upper 10 m are replaced by the gridded mean surface current velocities at 1/4&deg; horizontal resolution derived from satellite-tracked surface drifting buoys (<em>Laurindo et al. 2017</em>) that were horizontally interpolated to the resolution of the individual ship sections.</p>