Abstract: The Agulhas Current is much the strongest western boundary current in the Southern Hemisphere transporting about 65 Sv of warm water along the southeast coast of Africa. South of Africa, it retroflects back into the South ...

Abstract: The dynamics of coastally trapped ridges that propagate in the marine layers of western North America and southeastern Australia is examined. A nonlinear semigeostrophic theory shows that the coastal ridges develop initially ...

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Abstract: he maximum spatial correlation technique (MASCOTTE) is an objective and automated method developed to simultaneously determine both the structural properties and evolution (tracking) of cloud shields of convective systems. ...

Abstract: Investigations of extreme rainfall events in the southern African region are limited by the paucity of the observational network. Furthermore, the lack of full radar coverage for South Africa makes quantitative precipitation ...

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Abstract: combination of numerous factors, including geographic position, regional orography, and local sea surface temperatures, means that subtropical southern Africa experiences considerable spatial and temporal variability in ...

Abstract: It is shown that a global curvilinear grid with variable resolution is an efficient way of providing a high density of grid points in a particular region. In equilibrium experiments using asynchronous time steps, this type ...

Abstract: A global ocean model (ORCA2) forced with 50 yr of NCEP?NCAR reanalysis winds and heat fluxes has been used to investigate the evolution and forcing of interannual dipolelike sea surface temperature (SST) variability in the ...

Abstract: The Southwestern Cape (SWC) region of South Africa is characterized by winter rainfall brought mainly via cold fronts and by substantial interannual variability. Previous work has found evidence that the interannual ...