Moored equatorial velocity data in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean between 1992 and 2019

This dataset is a collection of moored velocity data used in the study “Sources and pathways of intraseasonal meridional kinetic energy in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean” (Körner et al., 2022) to analyze the representation of meridional intraseasonal velocity variability in a general circulation model. The observational velocity data were collected at five different locations along the equator. At 0°N, 35°W velocity data were collected by single-point current meters in four different depths from October 1992 until May 1994. Between August 2004 and June 2006 an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) and single-point current meters collected data at 0°N, 35°W. Moorings at 0°N, 23°W provide velocity measurements from December 2001 to June 2021 (apart from a period from December 2002 to February 2004 when no mooring was in place). At 0°N, 10°W velocity data were collected between May 2003 to March 2019 using ADCPs and single-point current meters. However, the mooring was not consecutively installed leading to data gaps of up to two years. Between 2007 and 2011 ADCPs recorded velocity data at 0°N, 0°E.