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RISContribution of Increased Agulhas Leakage to Tropical Atlantic Warming
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he upper tropical Atlantic Ocean has markedly warmed since the 1960s. It has been shown that this warming was not due to local heat fluxes and that the trade winds that drive the coastal and equatorial upwelling have ...
Agulhas Leakage Predominantly Responds to the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he Agulhas Current plays a crucial role in the thermohaline circulation through its leakage into the South Atlantic Ocean. Under both past and present climates, the trade winds and westerlies could have the ability to ...
Decoupling of the Agulhas Leakage from the Agulhas Current
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he relationship between the Agulhas Current and the Agulhas leakage is not well understood. Here, this is investigated using two basin-scale and two global ocean models of incrementally increasing resolution. The response ...
Eddy Diffusivity Estimates from Lagrangian Trajectories Simulated with Ocean Models and Surface Drifter Data—A Case Study for the Greater Agulhas System
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractThe Lagrangian analysis of sets of particles advected with the flow fields of ocean models is used to study connectivity, that is, exchange pathways, time scales, and volume transports, between distinct oceanic ...