The importance of flow in the Mozambique Channel to seasonality in the greater Agulhas Current system

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3321-3324

  Biastoch, A ^a   Reason, C J C ^b   Lutjeharms, J R E ^b   Boebel, O ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TROPICS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

SEASONAL WIND STRESS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SURFACE WATERS;

CURRENT; SEASONALITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

INDIAN OCEAN;

AGULHAS CURRENT; HYDROGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS; MODEL SIMULATION; MOZAMBIQUE CHANNELS; SEASONAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEASONAL WIND; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0033226569     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL002349     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Barnier, B., L. Siefridt, and P. Marchesiello, 1995: Thermal forcing for a global ocean circulation model from a three-year climatology of ECMWF analyses, J. Mar. Systems, 6, 363 - 380.
2. Beal, L.M., and H.L. Bryden, 1998: The velocity and vorticity structure of the Agulhas Current at 32°S, J. Geophys. Res., submitted.
3. Biastoch, A., 1998: Zirkulation und Dynamik in der Agulhasregion anhand eines numerischen Modells, Berichte aus dem Institut für Meereskunde Nr. 301, Kiel.
4. Biastoch, A., and W. Krauß, 1999: The role of mesoscale eddies in the source regions of the Agulhas Current, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29, 2303 - 2317.
5. Ffield, A., J. Toole, and D. Wilson, 1997: Seasonal circulation in the South Indian Ocean, Geophys. Res. Letters, 24, 2773 - 2776.
6. Gordon, A. L., 1986: Interocean exchange of thermocline water, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 5037 - 5046.
7. Gründlingh, M. L., 1980: On the volume transport of the Agulhas Current, Deep-Sea Res., 27, 557 - 563.
8. Harris, T. F. W., 1972: Sources of the Agulhas Current in the spring of 1964, Deep-Sea Res., 19, 633 - 650.
9. Levitus, S., R. Burgett, and T. Boyer, 1994: World Ocean Atlas 1994, Vol. 3, Salinity, and Vol. 4, Temperature, NOAA Atlas NESDIS 3 & 4, U.S. Dep. of Comm., Washington, D.C.
10. Lutjeharms, J. R. E., and R. C. van Ballegooyen, 1988: The retroflection of the Agulhas Current, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 18, 1570 - 1583.
11. Maltrud, M.E., R.D. Smith, A.J. Semtner, and R.C. Malone, 1998: Global eddy-resolving ocean simulations driven by 1985-1995 atmospheric winds, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 30825 - 30853.
12. Matano, R. P., C. G. Simonato, and P. T. Strub, 1999: Modelling the wind driven variablity of the South Indian Ocean, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29, in press.
13. Pacanowski, R. C., 1996: MOM 2 Version 2, Documentation, User's Guide and Reference Manual, Tech. Rep. 3.2, GFDL.
14. Pearce, A. F., and M. L. Gründlingh, 1982: Is there a seasonal variation in the Agulhas Current?, J. Mar. Res., 40, 177 - 184.
15. Quartly, G. D., and M. A. Srokosz, 1993: Seasonal variations in the region of the Agulhas retroflection: Studies with Geosat and FRAM, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 23, 2107 - 2124.
16. Heywood, K. J.,Y. K. Somayajulu, 1997: Eddy activity in the South Indian Ocean from ERS-1 altimetry, Proc. 3rd Symp. on "Space at the Service of our Environment", Florence, March 1997 (ESA-SP 414), 1479 - 1483.
17. Stammer, D., R. Tokmakian, A. Semtner, and C. Wunsch, 1996: How well does a 1/4° global circulation model simulate large-scale oceanic observations?, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 25779 - 25811.
18. Stramma, L., and J. R. E. Lutjeharms, 1997: The flow field of the subtropical gyre of the South Indian Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 5513 - 5530.