PANGAEA_995286 Moored Observatory in the Tropical Eastern Boundary Upwelling Region of Angola at 11°S since 2013 Brandt, Peter; Dengler, Marcus; Hummels, Rebecca; Imbol Koungue, Rodrigue Anicet; Kopte, Robert; Herrford, Josefine; Hans, Anna Christina (eds.) Moored Observatory in the Tropical Eastern Boundary Upwelling Region of Angola at 11°S since 2013 2026-07-17 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995286 Earth Science geoscientificInformation Mooring physical data TRACOS Tropical South Atlantic 2013-07-04 2023-05-08 Complete -10.83972 -10.6685 12.98828 13.71885 TRACOS Tropical Atlantic Circulation and Overturning at 11°S unrestricted CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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Bremen Bremen 28359 Germany online 7 datasets Hummels, Rebecca; Brandt, Peter; Dengler, Marcus; Herrford, Josefine; Hans, Anna Christina: Moored Observatory in the Tropical Western Boundary Circulation Region of the Atlantic at 11°S since 2000 [dataset editorial publication]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.996297 Kopte, Robert; Brandt, Peter; Dengler, Marcus; Tchipalanga, Pedro Cláver Mota; Macuéria, Marisa Francisca de; Ostrowski, Marek (2017): The Angola Current: Flow and hydrographic characteristics as observed at 11°S. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC012374

The TRACOS (Tropical Atlantic Circulation and Overturning at 11°S) array at 11°S between Brazil and Angola consists of ship and moored observations as well as pressure inverted echosounders at the western and eastern boundary. It is located in the tropical Atlantic where the upper-ocean circulation is a complex superposition of thermohaline and wind-driven flows. The zonally and vertically integrated upper-ocean meridional flow is associated with the upper branch of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) — a major component of the global climate system. In the tropics, the northward AMOC flow is superimposed by the shallower overturning associated with the wind-driven Subtropical cells (STCs). One of the key regions in the tropical Atlantic is the western boundary current system off Brazil. This region serves as a crossroads for the meridional transfer of mass, heat, and salt between the Northern and Southern hemisphere. The eastern boundary serves as a gateway for equatorial variability in the Benguela upwelling system: The TRACOS array consists of moorings at the western and eastern boundary and bottom pressure measurements on both sides of the basin in 300m and 500m depth. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995286"!

https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC012374 The Angola Current: Flow and hydrographic characteristics as observed at 11°S https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.996297 Moored Observatory in the Tropical Western Boundary Circulation Region of the Atlantic at 11°S since 2000 https://www.geomar.de/fb1-po/langzeitbeobachtungen/tracos-11s TRACOS DIF 9.4 2026-07-17 2026-08-06