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RISCharacteristics, Energetics, and Origins of Agulhas Current Meanders and Their Limited Influence on Ring Shedding
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he Agulhas Current intermittently undergoes dramatic offshore excursions from its mean path because of the downstream passage of mesoscale solitary meanders or Natal pulses. New observations and analyses are presented of ...
Observed Agulhas Current Sensitivity to Interannual and Long-Term Trend Atmospheric Forcings
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractOf the interannual variance of the Agulhas Current transport, 29% can be linearly related to six modes of Southern Hemisphere atmospheric variability. Agulhas Current transport is quantified by a 24-yr proxy ...
Estimates of Baroclinic Tidal Sea Level and Currents from Lagrangian Drifters and Satellite Altimetry
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Coherence of Western Boundary Pressure at the RAPID WAVE Array: Boundary Wave Adjustments or Deep Western Boundary Current Advection?
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: his study investigates the coherence between ocean bottom pressure signals at the Rapid Climate Change programme (RAPID) West Atlantic Variability Experiment (WAVE) array on the western North Atlantic continental slope, ...
Wind and Current Forcing Combine to Drive Strong Upwelling in the Agulhas Current
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: trong upwelling events inshore of the Agulhas Current close to 33.5°S are investigated. These events are important to the exchange of shelf and slope waters, potentially enhancing primary productivity and advecting larvae ...
Capturing the Transport Variability of a Western Boundary Jet: Results from the Agulhas Current Time-Series Experiment (ACT)
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he volume transport of the Agulhas Current was measured over a 3-yr period by an array of seven current meter moorings and four current- and pressure-recording inverted echo sounders (CPIES) deployed at 34°S. CPIES extended ...
The Observed North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Its Meridional Coherence and Ocean Bottom Pressure
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: nalyses of meridional transport time series from the Rapid Climate Change?Meridional Overturning Circulation (RAPID MOC) array at 26°N and from Argo float and altimetry data at 41°N reveal that, at semiannual and longer ...
Can Drake Passage Observations Match Ekman's Classic Theory?
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: kman's theory of the wind-driven ocean surface boundary layer assumes a constant eddy viscosity and predicts that the current rotates with depth at the same rate as it decays in amplitude. Despite its wide acceptance, Ekman ...
Test of a Method for Monitoring the Geostrophic Meridional Overturning Circulation Using Only Boundary Measurements
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: easurements of ocean bottom pressure, particularly on the continental slope, make an efficient means of monitoring large-scale integrals of the ocean circulation. However, direct pressure measurements are limited to ...
Observed Basin-Scale Response of the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to Wind Stress Forcing
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he response of the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC) to wind stress forcing is investigated from an observational standpoint, using four time series of overturning transports below and relative to ...