Raw PIES data for long-term observations of acoustic travel time (tau) and bottom pressure along the SAMBA transect at PIES P3a (October 2021 - September 2023)

Here we present raw data from a Pressure-equipped Inverted Echo Sounder (PIES) located at a depth of 4224m at location P3a (34.5000°S; 15.7878°E) along the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) Basin-scale Array (SAMBA) transect in the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic Ocean, between 1 October 2021 and 20 September 2023. 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.