A Dictionary of Weather

Agulhas Current

A Dictionary of Weather | 2001 | Copyright

Agulhas Current (Mozambique-Agulhas Current) The narrow, warm current, an extension of the Indian Ocean's South Equatorial Current, that flows south along the eastern coast of Africa. One of the fastest ocean…

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Variability and Coherence of the Agulhas Undercurrent in a High-Resolution...
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography ABSTRACT The Agulhas Current system has been analyzed in a nested...demonstrated that fluctuations of the Agulhas Current and Undercurrent around 50-70...the north. 1. Introduction The Agulhas Current, the major western boundary current...
Ocean-atmosphere interaction in the Agulhas Current region and a South African...
Magazine article from: Weather and Forecasting ...the Kuroshio Current, and the Agulhas Current often leads to very high evaporation rates. In the case of the Agulhas Current, which flows just off the southeast...significant latent heat fluxes in the Agulhas Current area was obtained during the...
Evidence for the influence of the Agulhas Current on regional atmospheric...
Magazine article from: Journal of Climate ABSTRACT The Agulhas Current is much the strongest western boundary...the warm waters of the southern Agulhas Current, its retroflection, and the Return...investigate the potential influence of the Agulhas Current on the regional atmosphere, two...
Modeling the Variability of the Greater Agulhas Current System
Magazine article from: Journal of Climate ...in the source regions of the Agulhas Current on a range of time scales. These...to the volume transport of the Agulhas Current in the model. On average the...recirculation and that of the Agulhas Current, particularly on interannual...
The role of mesoscale eddies in the source regions of the Agulhas Current
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography ...that the model simulates the Agulhas Current, its retroflection, and the...which travel toward the northern Agulhas Current. After the eddies reach the...western boundary current, the Agulhas Current (Lutjeharms 1996), a region...
On the physics of the Agulhas current: Steady retroflection regimes
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography ...work in the retroflection of the Agulhas Current. Here, a systematic study of...1992: Ring-- shedding in the Agulhas Current system. J. Geophys. Res...Topographic control in the Agulhas Current system. Deep-Sea Res., 31...
Stability of western boundary currents with an application to Pulselike...
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography ABSTRACT The northern Agulhas Current off South Africa displays very...background state, loosely based on Agulhas Current observations. Unstable inshore...set by processes external to Agulhas Current proper remains an open question...
Generation and evolution of natal pulses: Solitary meanders in the Agulhas...
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography ...ABSTRACT Solitary meanders of the Agulhas Current, so-called Natal pulses...instability of the strongly baroclinic Agulhas Current in the Natal Bight. The vorticity...Bight. 1. Introduction The Agulhas Current is a major western boundary current...
Why are there Agulhas rings?
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography ...numerically and applied to the Agulhas Current. Using a reduced-gravity 1...Legeckis and Gordon 1982), and the Agulhas Current (Lutjeharms 1981). Compared...itself. Here, we focus on the Agulhas Current (Fig. 1) and present new sets...
Tracer Leakage from Modeled Agulhas Rings
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography ...et al. 1999; Weijer et al. 1999). After Agulhas rings are shed from the Agulhas Current, they move into the highly variable Cape Basin...1995; Schouten et al. 2000). The number of Agulhas ring-shedding events ranges on average from...

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