Abstract: A new map of the baroclinic volume transport to 3000 m has been produced for the Southern Ocean, making use of all available historic hydrographic data in the area. The map complements the geopotential height anomaly map ...

Abstract: Data specifically selected from the total available data set have been used for an isentropic analysis of the southwest Indian Ocean. Components of geostrophic velocity at the depths of the various isentropic surfaces have ...

Abstract: A descriptive analysis of the occurrence and kinematics of mesoscale eddies at the subtropical convergence south of Africa is presented. Data used in this study include thermal infrared imagery from satellites since 1978 ...

Abstract: A description of the nature and kinematics of the Agulhas Current termination is given based on satellite infrared imagery and selected hydrographic measurements collected over the past decade. On average the Agulhas ...

Abstract: The response of the marine atmospheric boundary layer to the strong sea surface temperature (SST) gradient across the warm Agulhas Current was studied in the Agulhas Current Air?Sea Exchange Experiment, south of Port Alfred, ...

Abstract: The Agulhas Current system has been analyzed in a nested high-resolution ocean model and compared to observations. The model shows good performance in the western boundary current structure and the transports off the South ...

Abstract: The Agulhas Current is the major western boundary current of the Southern Hemisphere. South of Africa it retroflects back into the southwest Indian Ocean, transporting relatively warm water into the midlatitudes. Large ...

Abstract: Extreme warm episodes in the southeast Atlantic Ocean, known as Benguela Niños, have devastating environmental impacts and have been shown to be remotely forced. To place these extreme events into perspective, the investigation ...

Abstract: Ocean?atmosphere interaction above warm western boundary currents such as the Gulf Stream, the Kuroshio Current, and the Agulhas Current often leads to very high evaporation rates. In the case of the Agulhas Current, which ...

Abstract: An eddy-permitting, regional ocean model has been used to examine the variability in the source regions of the Agulhas Current on a range of time scales. These source regions are the East Madagascar Current, the flow through ...